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southern

A southern place, accent, person, etc. is in, from, or about the south. The money helps everyone from a grocer in southern Lebanon to a farmer in Tajikistan. My grandmother moved to southern California to live with my aunt. Her soft, southern accent reminded him of warm summer nights. Recently, elephants have done well in southern Africa. She remembered a summer afternoon swimming off the family compound at the southern tip of Taiwan. Each year, millions of Mexicans cross that southern border from Mexico into the United States. Dire Dawa is located on the southern edge of the Rift Valley at the foot of the Harrar Mountains. Jupiter lies fairly low in the southern sky after dusk.

southern

in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line southern hospitality southern cooking southern plantations (= southerly) situated in or oriented toward the south a southern exposure took a southerly course situated in or coming from regions of the south the southern hemisphere southern constellations (= southerly) from the south; used especially of wind a hot southerly wind southern breezes the winds are southerly

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Simple sentences

As the house has a southern aspect, it is very sunny.
Young people flocked to southern California.
He lives in the southern part of the city.
There is more moorland in Northern Germany than in Southern Germany.
There are more pagans in Northern Germany than in Southern Germany.
Our restaurant is near the southern bus station.
The Cathares in southern France were called Albigensians.
The Prussians should be on their guard against the southern Germans.
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil are part of the Southern Cone.
South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa.
Naples is the largest city in southern Italy.
The workers of the northern countries have paid a high price for the displacement of production in the southern regions.
Dirndl is a type of traditional dress that is worn in Southern Germany and Austria.
The Southern Cross is not to be seen in Japan.
Tomorrow's total eclipse of the sun will be visible from the southern hemisphere.
Malibu is on the coast of Southern California.
Pskov is in southern Russia.
Tom has a southern accent.
He has a Southern accent.
The southern Italian island of Sicily has been covered with a vast plume of smoke and ash.
Tom speaks with a southern accent.
Tom comes from the southern part of France.

Movie subtitles

If you think about it, it's kind of the epitome of Southern California pastiche.
She thought I needed background, so she gave it to me with southern exposure.. anda fineviewoftheMediterranean.
So, as long as I work, you'll have to pardon my Southern accent.
Okay, sheriff, what are your rates for a cell with southern exposure?
Then you could sail from Genoa and return by southern route.
I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern belle simper off your face.
Not for any Southern scum, alive or dead.
It's what many of our Southern men have had to do to protect us.
Show him that old Southern hospitality.
You mean the war for the Southern Confederacy, sir.
The cutest little Southern girl told me all about you.
The flower of Southern horse.
If you are, by any chance. referring to the late unpleasantness between the States. that, sir, was a war for the Southern Confederacy.
Three of the richest mines in America belong to Southern sympathizers there.
The Southern army facing Chattanooga is ordered to retreat.
Then the Southern Parkers?
You're going to pass up that nice, big roast turkey? With chestnut dressing. and sweet potatoes, southern style?
I will be the Grand Royal Duke Spiros Dimitros Nikolaus Forfoltu-Varenikos from southern part Europe.
The Southern Cross, and all the stars on the other side of the world.
But nowadays, no proper respect for our Southern womanhood.
Has anybody seen my grandmother? She's Southern. Thank you.
Just like the Southern Cross over the Strait of Magellan.
I've died, gone to heaven, or maybe I'm just going to have roast chicken Southern style.
The ventilation is great, my room has a southern exposure, the rates are cheap, but somehow or other, the atmosphere is too confining.
I'll give her the southern territory.
Sweet singers of southern song.
Or do you want a sample of our Southern hospitality?
Southern women have a lot of charm.
She's one of those. well-brought-up southern children.
You southern belles are all alike.

News and current affairs

And six months after the merciless pounding of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is as strong as it was before.
So, while the rebirth of the Taliban is in part due to the woefully neglected reconstruction of the Pashto Southern and Eastern part of the country, it also has external causes.
Both America and Israel have cited foot-dragging in implementing UN Resolution 1559, which calls for disarming all non-state actors in Lebanon and the deployment of government forces all the way to the southern border.
For the eurozone's southern periphery, however, today's euro rate is very difficult to manage.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
Mexico has to assume responsibility for regulating this traffic, which means more than sealing off its southern border.
For example, Texas, like most southern US states, was once economically poor and declining.
The persistent loss in competitiveness over the past decade is one reason why the crisis is hitting some southern European EMU countries such as Spain and Italy so hard.
No catastrophic earthquake or tsunami has destroyed southern Europe's productive capacity.
He has regularly defended the Palestinians' rights to a state, but he also condemned Hamas's rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Credit default swaps (CDS) of major southern European banks trade slightly lower than the CDS of their sovereign states, indicating that the market does not perceive the latter as able to support the former.
Argentina is a little economy of the Southern hemisphere; the US is a large and diversified economy of the Northern hemisphere.
MUNICH - During the financial crisis, the eurozone's northern members rescued their southern counterparts by offering huge bailouts and backing the European Central Bank's promise to save the euro at all costs.
They would sustain false relative prices - the result of the inflationary credit bubble in the south that formed after the euro's adoption - that are preventing the euro's southern European countries from regaining competitiveness.
Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.
Regional groups of countries in eastern, southern, and western Africa are all giving priority to the idea of creating a monetary union.
Here, the model to follow is not the euro, but Latin America's Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
A generation later, in the 1860's, the Civil War between northern and southern states resulted in large part from a dispute about the character of financial burdens -amp at least from the South's perspective.
A tiny elite of Tutsi from the southern province of Bururi controlled all institutions, exploiting them to the fullest.
The crisis in Europe's southern neighborhood reflects a deep-seated transformation process that will have long-lasting consequences - for the region, for Europe, and for the world.
The situation in the Mediterranean region is at a more advanced stage. The broad planks of a partnership are already there, so what is now needed is to enhance Europe's integration with its southern neighbors.
The EBRD made an important contribution to the economic transition process in Eastern Europe; there's a good case for drawing on its experience and expertise to help the southern Mediterranean.
In parts of southern Yemen, an Al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, functions as a de facto government.
The upheaval among Europe's southern and eastern neighbors may well bring about a long-overdue revamping of the EU's Neighborhood Policy.
The broad planks of a partnership are already there, so what is now needed is to enhance Europe's integration with its southern neighbors.
But the stakes in Libya today are more appropriately underscored by the tragedy in southern Iraq in the waning days of the Persian Gulf War 20 years ago.
China and southern Africa have received growing international attention in recent years, but for very different reasons.

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