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south

The direction opposite to north. For a person looking at the setting sun, the south is on their left hand. The wind usually comes from the south.

south

One of the four compass directions: 180º from north. If you face south, the sun rises on your left. Africa is South of Europe.

south

situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south the south entrance in a southern direction we moved south a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point

South

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line (= Confederacy) the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

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The cardinal directions are: north, south, east, and west.
Cadmium poisoning is a very common cause of death in the south.
I am not used to harsh climate as I come from South countries.
Layla is a mother of six, living in the south west of England.
Tom is from the South.
The birds flew south.
Things have gone south.
The South East region of England is densely populated.
Soon, swallows will come from the south.
France is to the south of England.
Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Many swallows will come soon from the south.
The object flew away to the south, giving out flashes of light.
The island is to the south of Japan.
The plant ranges from the north of Europe to the south.
Our plane is flying toward the south.
These windows look to the south.
This river flows south into the sea.
This is how Scott and his men arrived at the South Pole.
Australia is smaller than South America.
Quito, Ecuador, is a little south of the equator.
I went to the South Pacific for a summer of romantic adventure.
I saw a lot of birds flying toward the south.
It is believed that the festival comes from the South Pacific islands.
The Union of South Africa has had racial problems in recent years.
Those birds build their nests in the summer and fly to the south in the winter.
My house is on the south bank of the Thames.
My house faces to the south.

Movie subtitles

There's a small place in South Pasadena.
I thought the Harvard of the South was Vanderbilt.
I got into the Harvard of the South.
The Harvard of the South is Duke.
You got into the Harvard of the South, after all, which you somehow managed to mention on your test.
Take the Karabakh zone in the South. It's been at the centre of a ten-year conflict.
But Karabakh is far from here, down South.
South Steamship Co.
The state of South Milligan is studying the project.. to transport Niagara Falls into its own borders.
We offer you the highest rank of the army of the south.
South Africa has my sympathies.
There isn't a home in the South that wouldn't welcome the daughter of Colonel Cameron.
Going south?
Only native-born south sea islanders. appear in this picture with a few half-castes and chinese.
Don't forget! We're south of Marseille.
How about South America?
Why, there isn't a home in all the South that wouldn't welcome the daughter of Colonel Cameron.
Cover every inch of ground, north, south, east, west.
They say she came over from South America about five months ago.
And then we'll go to South America.
Camp down below the south creek for the next 3 or 4 weeks. Remember?
I always thought I'd like to go on doing this sort of thing, go to South America, you know, expeditions?
He say the South Side get out of line.
What are we gonna do with the South Side?
The South Side is rolling in jack.
There's your South Side hailed in a box.
South Africa.
America, China, Japan and Russia are all paying close attention to the situation between the South and North.
Because of WOC and the facilitating relationships between the North and South.
He hated it the most when WOC united the North and South. So, if we were to join the WOC, won't it be definite that he will continue creating trouble for the Royal Family?
The UNDC meeting has indicated that it is okay for the North and South joint team to participate.
In the next month, he will be the Team Leader for the joint officer team of the North and South, and compete against the officers from 16 countries attending the third WOC.
Nice to meet you too. I am from now on, not a King of South Korea, but a Team Leader of the joint South and the North Korea team.
This North and South team will need to have good luck.
But no matter what, they are still South America's best military power.
They placed a special magnetic stripe on top. If this isn't dealt with properly, whether it's the Royal Family or South Korea, it'll both be finished.
Also, between the South and North, continue to pressure them.
But I'm South Korea's King. Since it isn't an official standpoint from the United States Government and not your own opinion, but instead we have to understand by looking at the situation ourselves.
Isn't this the South's matter?

News and current affairs

There are many who would solve the problem by routing more and more cheap credit through public channels - bailout funds, eurobonds, or the ECB - from the eurozone's healthy core to the troubled South.
But this would unfairly force savers and taxpayers in the core countries to provide capital to the South on terms to which they would never voluntarily agree.
This is particularly relevant as emerging development partners, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), offer new kinds of aid packages that incorporate investment and non-financial assistance.
A violent conflict in the past may survive as a war of memories in the present, as can be observed in the current dispute between China and South Korea on one side, and Japan on the other.
This year's Cup, unlike the previous one in Japan and South Korea in 2002, didn't witness any real upsets in the first round.
First, Europe and South America are more dominant than four years ago and remain the unchallenged great powers of international soccer.
So we must hope that the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 will finally bring greater global parity.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
Likewise, indigenous development played a key role in Japan and Germany after WWII, in South Korea more recently, and the UK long before.
Such specificity helps explain why successful countries--China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan, among others--usually combined unorthodox elements with orthodox policies.
Afghans can contribute in a tangible way here by reopening the North-South route connecting the resource rich economies of Central Asia to densely populated India and Pakistan.
But, because the overall value of the euro has to be a balance of the eurozone's north and south, one can argue that 1.4 is within a reasonable range.
That question is raised in Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South, a report issued last year by the Land Matrix Partnership, a consortium of European research institutes and nongovernmental organizations.
The United States and our partners worked to create alliances that brought prosperity and stability to Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea.
Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.
And South Africa's last apartheid leader, F. W. de Klerk, was initially perceived as just another apologist for the system - hardly the man to free Nelson Mandela and oversee the end of white minority rule.
Is Burma, like South Africa under de Klerk, truly poised to emerge from a half-century of self-imposed isolation?
And can Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic opposition leader, and Thein Sein, Burma's new president, engineer a political transition as skillfully and peacefully as Mandela and de Klerk did for South Africa in the early 1990's?
No one should rush to judgment yet, but Thein Sein's decisions, at least so far, are beginning to resemble those of South Africa's de Klerk when he initiated his country's reform process.
For starters, the ENP assumes that all of the EU's neighbors, both in the south and in the east, ultimately want to realize European values and structures in their own countries.
No Maoist group could ever gain a toehold in Afghanistan's parched Pashtun south (these were, after all, people who, bare-knuckled, smashed the Soviets).
The Taliban are now an increasingly spent force, but lack of water reinforced the logic of opium production across its former strongholds in the south.
A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone.
If elected, she would be South Korea's first woman president, and, for her rivals, her dominant position in the race is an uncomfortable but unassailable fact.
South Korean voters of all ages and regions have welcomed Park as a candidate for their country's leadership.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
His daughter is proud of his legacy, which marked the beginning of South Korea's economic boom.
To many South Koreans, the election is now Park's to lose.
No one in South Korea's conservative movement doubts that Park is one of them. And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.
But she must convincingly outline practical strategies to resolve South Korea's most serious problems, including high unemployment, worsening educational performance, and North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Come presidential election-day in 2012, South Korean voters will pick the candidate who embodies pragmatism and centrism over a partisan or ideologue.
Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.

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