How To Use South-east In A Sentence

It's true what they say about the sunny south-east - because Ireland's hills soak up moisture from prevailing south-westerlies, it really is a good deal brighter and drier here.
Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
This species was a cultivated tree, or possibly a survivor of natural woodland in the area, on the campus of the University at São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo state, in south-east Brazil.
Five minutes down the tarmac and we take an open and contouring track south-east.

By comparison, last year 30,000 new affordable homes, categorised as more expensive than council properties but priced at below market rates, were built in London and the south-east. Homes cuts: south-east 'faces disaster' over affordable housing
They were heading in a south-easterly direction from New Orleans, Louisiana, following the Mississippi river towards the Gulf of Mexico.
Thus, the study of the isacoustic lines strongly confirms the conclusions at which we have arrived above (p. 223) -- namely, that there were two distinct foci arranged in a north-west and south-east line, and that the impulse at the former focus occurred a few seconds earlier than that at the latter. [ A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The south-east Asian nation moved this week to secure regional approval for the first major hydropower plant on its stretch of the river in the face of protests from international conservation groups.
A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
On one occasion we had a hot land-wind from the South-East that veered round as the day advanced to Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Would the south-east and midland farmers be so anxious to quit the beet industry then?
Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
Travelling south from Preston, it begins to swing to the south-east at Adlington and then skirts Blackrod.
The quarry firm has claimed that reducing blasts to the level suggested would affect the economic viability of the south-east corner of the quarry, which only has a short lifespan.
The walks depart in a south-easterly direction to Mount Leinster, which, if the weather continues to remain fine will offer wonderful views of the Galtees, Slievenamon and the Wicklow Mountains.
The mainly south-westerly air-stream, alternating with south-easterlies, turned the beat to Temple into a series of short tacks as the fickle breeze tempted boats on to a course before dying away and changing direction.
The south-eastern port towns show the most frequent signs of French influence.
The dry season is characterized by south-east trade winds.
In 2003 an Iranian troop carrier crashed in the south-east, killing all 276 soldiers and crew on board.
The aborigines of the country, driven like the Bhils and other autochthonic Indians, into the eastern and south-eastern wilds bordering upon the ocean. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Much of south-east Queensland has become a carpark, almost, during commuter hours, and north-east New South Wales is not much better.
They call this season bordwo bo'uai ('blowing the petticoats awry'), in reference to the effect of the first strong gales of the south-eastern breeze.
People here just want to get on with their lives and not bother with a toffee-nosed Tory from the south-east.
Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
It takes me to South-East Asia on long bus journeys and to backpacker hostels. Times, Sunday Times
I have gone through the central provinces, Chontales, Matagalpa, and Segovia; from the San Juan river, the south-eastern boundary of Nicaragua, away to the confines of Honduras on the north-west. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
These airstreams then turn northwards to the north of the Equator and meet the southern hemisphere south-easterlies in a trough zone south of the Equator.
In the south-east corner is one of the two-storey stairwells, with its chipped stair edges and old steel door.
The other sites included in the very brief survey are on roads in the south-east.
It is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
No other people in the state had offered to do what the south-eastern residents were doing.
During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
During the 1950s the population of the South-East went up by 1.13 million, with a net migration gain of 438,000.
But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector.
Northern-dominated government may have blunted the appeal of the development discourse among the majority of south-eastern voters.
They basically moved in three directions: two to the south and one to the south-east.
For all participants, the campaigns in South-East Asia and the Pacific were imperialistic.
The second element of the project is to provide an underground car-park alongside and to the south-east of the existing buildings.
The poll quizzed south-east Londoners on what they treasure most and least about the UK, in an attempt to find out what the UK's national treasure is.
Men had fought and experienced a wider world, and such experiences were now brought back to south-eastern villages and towns.
The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism.
Set at the south-east corner of the old city, the site lies just beyond what was once the line of the medieval city wall.
Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
Many of the buyers, particularly at the top end of the market, have fled the overcrowded south-east of England, enticed north by lower prices and a better quality of life.
Located on the south-east of Hirta, the largest of St Kilda's five islands, even Village Bay can become an inhospitable place when a south-east wind gets up.
Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.
The really only interesting part is the tomb of Mahomed Aly, which is at the south-east corner, it being built on the place where the janissaries were murdered. Three Months in the Soudan
It's fresh and zingy, but this is a dish that curtsies to south-east Asian rather than Anglo-Indian cuisine, and on a practical note I'm not sure how long it would be happy to sit around on the buffet table. How to cook perfect coronation chicken
It is clear, however, that both see the south-eastern regions' political and cultural outlook as a serious problem. The Times Literary Supplement
As a result, south-east Asia's biggest oil producer is ransacking its foreign exchange reserves to pay for imported oil and to shore up its currency.
Our next dive was 6 hours later and several miles further to the south-east.
A substation in the south-east corner will remain, but the mortuary, the busiest in the city, will be demolished and moved across the road to the hospital building.
As a result, very cold conditions were expected over the western, southern and south-eastern interior as well as the eastern high ground and highveld.
The 6th day is another non-fly day, because of a strong south-east wind.
There was a peewit somewhere over to the south-east, and the birch leaves made a soft sussurration behind him. A DEATH IN TIME
In 1940, the two major colonial powers in South-East Asia, France and the UK, signed pacts of non-aggression with Thailand, which declared its neutrality.
One person died and thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as the fires - the worst to hit south-east Australia in 50 years - continued to sweep towards the city.
And it is one of the few places outside London and the south-east to make it on to the rich towns league table out today.
The park's principal geomorphic feature is the north-east to south-east geosyncline which is surrounded by raised folds and high mountains. Darién National Park, Panama
They basically moved in three directions: two to the south and one to the south-east.
The Giant's Causeway is off the north coast and Belfast Lough indents the south-east coastline.
The firm has proposed a north-south road alignment which would cut through the south-east and north-east corners of the Chapman Regional Park.
The syrup is produced in Nemours, a city to the South-East of Paris, where they've had a specialty of bonbons au coquelicot (red poppy candy) since the 1870's.
The political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real South-East Asian locations, and the studio jungle looks unconvincing.
Cozumel lies approximately 30 km to the south-east of Cancun.
A two-storey semi-circular arc of accommodation embraces a green public space which looks south-eastwards over the river to the endless landscape.
The strength of Chester's connections with Liverpool and with Wales and the Marches contrasts with the relative weakness of those to the east and south-east.
The Chinese, with ships as large as the Portuguese carracks and much more efficient to windward, traded in growing strength throughout South-east Asia, and settled in the area in far greater numbers than Europeans.
The estimate made by Eusebio, however, of the trend or direction of the calisaya groves, induced him to forsake the bed of the Cconi, and strike south-eastwardly, so as to cross the Ollachea and the Ayapata. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
Cozumel lies approximately 30 km to the south-east of Cancun.
In the far corner, meanwhile, is Biophilia's "gameleste" – a celesta rebuilt with brass to mimic the sounds of the south-east Asian gamelan. Björk: Biophilia – review
The small bay to the south-east of the site may also be incorporated as a marina for the waterfront residents.
There was a fresh east, south-easterly wind which took me towards land.
In summary, we report that the allele distribution of the ldh-A gene in Pacific swordfish is homogeneous among temporal samples within-regions but that significant differences exist among pooled regional samples from the NCPO (Hawaii-multiple years), the north-eastern Pacific Ocean (NEPO: Mexico and Ecuador-multiple years), the south-eastern Pacific Ocean (SEPO: off Chile), and the SWP O (Australia). Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
The cellarer's and other storerooms were, apparently, on the west side, and there seems to have been a smaller guesten-hall to the south-east. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
Diverse phocine seals – some apparently resembling the extant Pusa** seals – are known to have inhabited Paratethys during the Miocene (Paratethys was a brackish inland sea that covered much of south-east Europe and south-west Asia during the Miocene) and, according to the Paratethyan hypothesis, it is phocines from this region that managed to invade the Caspian Sea, later getting as far east as Lake Baikal. The most inconvenient seal
Japan has taken the gloves off for a bare-knuckle fight with China to claim the title of leading economic power in South-east Asia.
The south-eastern cyclone moved eastward.
In 1940, the two major colonial powers in South-East Asia, France and the UK, signed pacts of non-aggression with Thailand, which declared its neutrality.
But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Camberley is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
It was a hot, cloudless and humid day, 27 degrees centigrade, with a light south-easterly wind.
He later switched to catering for high rollers only, but is now an international globetrotter whose ambitious plans for development in south-east Asia could make him the biggest player of all.
To the south-east of Koh Tao is Shark Island, named, rather disappointingly, because of the shape of a shark fin formed by the top of the island itself.
With the nights drawing in, overground railway stations in south-east London (the land the underground map forgot) have become a popular location for the streetwise mugger.
A light south-easterly was forecast for the Sunday's Royal Windermere Yacht Club Flying Fifteen race in the Spring Series.
South is the desert and further south-east are more mountains with desolate plateaux and volcanic cones and craters.
There was a fresh east, south-easterly wind which took me towards land.
Within Plymouth Sound, the breakwater guarantees diving in all conditions apart from strong south and south-easterly winds.
This style of cooking is peculiar to the South-Eastern provinces.
The fire began at about 3pm on Thursday and gradually spread in south-easterly winds.
They were heading in a south-easterly direction from New Orleans, Louisiana, following the Mississippi river towards the Gulf of Mexico.
The flora is largely derived from that of south-eastern Polynesia, but is comparatively depauperate, due to the remoteness and the young geological age of the island.
The city of Ch'eng Tu lies some seven hundred miles to the South-East.
The Venus fly trap is an endemic carnivorous plant growing on sandy soils in the central south-eastern coastal plain of North America.
The wreck points to the south-west, so a south-east to north-west search with an echo-sounder presents the best chance of success.
(or Sweet-nose), is called the Murman Coast, or simply the Murman; the eastern and south-eastern part, from Holy Cape along the White Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
The south-east monsoon cuts visibility from June to August, but the main rains come with the north-west monsoon from December to March, when heavy seas can restrict diving.
The virus causing the disease (referred to as brain fever in some of the endemic areas) normally circulates among certain domestic animals and birds such as egrets and herons, in the rice producing parts of South, South-East and East Asia. Chapter 5
From there they went to the south-east corner of the island to Owenga where there is another church with burial grounds.
A marginal inscription notes that Captain Cook first sighted the south-eastern corner, where settlement began.
Palaeobiogeographers have considered it to be an equatorial seaway extending from Central America to South-East Asia, characterized by a distinctive fauna.
Now it can be shown that some cemeteries of cremations in south-east England, accompanied by wheel-turned pots, originated well before Caesar's invasions.
In the evening, after our return from the river, the weather clouded, but afterwards cleared up with a change of wind from the South-East, which, from its heat, and from the listless sensations it caused, resembled the hot land-wind of Port Jackson: this seems to afford additional ground for the hypothesis that the interior of this immense island is occupied by vast sandy deserts. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
On Christmas Day the family, who lived in Old Town until emigrating to south-east Asia in June, anchored off Patong beach on Phuket Island.
During Mr. Bedwell's absence a hot land-wind from South-East sprung up and raised the temperature to 90 degrees. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
The last thing he had in mind was dying young in the jungles of south-east Asia.
The T-shaped building is orientated at a 45 degree angle to the north with the main entrance on the south-east corner.
It has been suggested that a central authority should construct huge reservoirs on the Ganga and Brahmaputra and link these two mighty rivers with canals, thereby diverting surplus waters south-eastwards into the Mahanadi.
In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.
But though there was a tradition of unity, it had been greatly changed by the industrialization of the south-east, and intercommunication was poor.
The palace is near the south-eastern section of the island.
The winds will be a light south-westerly turning light south-easterly in the afternoon, which all bodes well for a good day's surfing.
From there they went to the south-east corner of the island to Owenga where there is another church with burial grounds.
May to September brings the cooler and drier south-east monsoon, with strong winds and high seas in July and August.
The south-east of the country has long been one of the more popular locations for those seeking to purchase a second home in Ireland.
The barrier was closed by the authorities around noon on Monday after strong south-easterly winds and a high tide led to safety fears.
Right now, the south-eastern and southern states have lower participation rates, but so do the southwestern states (and Maine, NJ, and NY). Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
Set at the south-east corner of the old city, the site lies just beyond what was once the line of the medieval city wall.
This goes in a south-easterly direction and was used for horse racing in the 19th century.
A light south-easterly was forecast for the Sunday's Royal Windermere Yacht Club Flying Fifteen race in the Spring Series.
The success of the crop can be partially explained by its ability to grow in diverse tropical environments, including the extensive and complex rainfed lowlands of south and south-east Asia.
The 55 genera of the south-eastern flora contain about 1,260 species.
Formerly known as Siam, it was the only country in south-east Asia that escaped colonial rule, as a result of its geopolitical situation between the French and the British colonial empires.
The mandarin orange is considered a native of south-eastern Asia and the Philippines.
When views to the west were lost in fog or hidden behind trees, I would often stand between the fields and wooded scarp slope looking south-east to the Clee Hills: a strangely self-contained land with its two mountains, wide open commons and isolated history. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The last thing he had in mind was dying young in the jungles of south-east Asia.
The site was selected for its northern orientation, its shelter from the prevailing south-east wind, its open terrain, views and landform.
We are benefiting from a nice south-easterly wind blowing in from over the warm continent.
The sunny south-east seems to be a popular choice.
The separation of the Borders and fife from the proposed South-east region was more controversial.
Since his move to the south-east, he's become passionate about the region.
This assumption makes it easier to understand some of the sudden political changes in south-eastern Britain.
With the aircraft at a height of about 320 ft on a south-easterly heading in fine weather, workers on the drilling rig heard a loud bang.
The south-eastern slope bears heavy loessic soil, mixed with superficial pebbles and compact loam soil.
The only bones that now survive from the excavation are four femora that were recovered from the south-eastern burial chamber.
Until its dismantling, the DTP was the strongest party within the Kurdish minority in Turkey, who number around 15 million - or 20 per cent of the population - and are concentrated in the south-east of the country. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
A woman's body has been found in a car park outside a Springvale tabaret venue in Melbourne's south-east. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
The meteorologists now located Keoni about 350 miles south-east of us, and were uncertain of the direction the typhoon would take.
The winds, which had now swung south-east sent great waves over those who still clung to anything they could get a grip on, such as chains, steel uprights or iron support bars.
As a result, south-east Asia's biggest oil producer is ransacking its foreign exchange reserves to pay for imported oil and to shore up its currency.
In February 2009, the south-eastern state of Victoria, then in the grip of drought, was hit by bushfires. The Cycles Driving Oz's Weather
On 19th January 1991, crude oil from five bombed oil tankers moored off the Mina Al-Ahmadi oil terminal and nearby oil pipelines in Kuwait produced a slick extending south-eastwards over 1,500 km².
The coastal regions, especially in the south-east, have undergone rapid economic growth while the vast remote areas remain undeveloped.
The 74-year-old space is open again after a two-year-long project to move it south-eastwards by 66 metres and to completely redecorate it.
If there is one place in Ireland that they have a better chance of some sunshine, it's in the sunny south-east.
Had he had the eyes of a man, nearly two yards higher than his own from the deck, and had they been the trained eyes of a man, sailor-man at that, Jerry could have seen the low blur of Ysabel to the north and the blur of Florida to the south, ever taking on definiteness of detail as the Arangi sagged close-hauled, with a good full, port-tacked to the south-east trade. CHAPTER III
Already a blob of warmer Pacific water has started extending south-eastward towards the South American coast and it is this water that is expected to reach Ecuador by the end of the year.
The main entrance to the building is on the south-east corner, and is a simple portal framed in the perimeter wall.
The south-eastern cyclone moved eastward.
The annual event, the biggest free occasion of its type in south-east England, brought families out into the summer sun to experience a taste of country life.
Southerly flow into the monsoon is a continuation of the south-easterly trades of the southern hemisphere, except that they are deflected to the right by the Coriolis force in the northern hemisphere to become south-westerlies.
I jackerooed across the state from the bush at Port Augusta to Keith in the wetter south-east, before marrying and going on to manage the family property at Olary in the north-east of SA.
Kuma's three-storey villa has been built into a hill and looks south-east over the bay of Atami, south of Tokyo.
The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years.
Currently, many peasants living near big cities or along the south-east coast have become landlords, leasing land to labourers from provinces in the interior.
At the risk of being called yet another whingeing scouser by adoption, the north-east is not the first region to be marginalised by the south-east and London media and political class. Letters: Geordies, banality and the truth about Cheryl
The barrier was closed by the authorities around noon on Monday after strong south-easterly winds and a high tide led to safety fears.
To the south-east lay Cyprus and Egypt; to the north, the Dardanelles and the Black Sea; westwards the mainland of Greece and the island of Crete.
But there are a number of circumstances (especially chorological facts) which suggest that the primeval home of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it is at present (and probably in direct connection with it), towards the east, as far as Further India and the Sunda Islands; towards the west, as far as Madagascar and the south-eastern shores of Africa. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is an increasingly socio-economically important crop in South-East Asia.
The dominant axis runs between revolving doors at north-west and south-east corners, and, like the big space, it ascends the height of the building.
The sunny south-east seems to be a popular choice.
Formerly known as Siam, it was the only country in south-east Asia that escaped colonial rule, as a result of its geopolitical situation between the French and the British colonial empires.
Gold prospectors had long been moving anti-clockwise around the continent from the first fields in its south-east corner, and in the 1880s they reached the north of the colony.
The south-east's property shortage could be solved overnight if London's single blokes were forced to take a live-in concubine (or rent boy, if they're that way inclined). A Giant Leap For Personkind ?
The south-east Asian nation moved this week to secure regional approval for the first major hydropower plant on its stretch of the river in the face of protests from international conservation groups.
Found in the south-east palaestra or exercise court of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1545, it was heavily restored and fitted out as a fountain by the Farnese.
The winds will be a light south-westerly turning light south-easterly in the afternoon, which all bodes well for a good day's surfing.
In December, Vietnam will host the 22nd version of the South-East Asian Games, which is exacted to cost Vietnam about 411 billion dong.
Calgon Carbon emphasizes one major product, activated carbon; and SNF Floerger focuses on flocculants with plants in the South-East region of the United States.
This year, Afghan poppies yielded 56 kg of opium per hectare, which is a 15 percent increase over 2008 and five times more than what opium farmers yield in the Golden Triangle of South-east Asia. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Chelsea supporters had arrived in south-east London to witness their all-star cast take centre stage.
In the south-eastern lowlands it is called sedapa or sedapak. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
The men were arrested during raids by anti-terrorist police across the South-East two weeks ago.
The domestication of crops, particularly cereals, was the central achievement of the Neolithic revolution 12 000 years ago in south-east Turkey.
To the south-east, just off the headland, there is a dangerous bombora at times, an area where broken waves can suddenly erupt.
Search teams, including cocoa and coffee planters, have begun combing the forested south-east from Biche to Sangre Grande.
On Christmas Day the family, who lived in Old Town until emigrating to south-east Asia in June, anchored off Patong beach on Phuket Island.
Twenty miles off the south-east coast of this island there is an active volcano still hidden beneath the sea. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
A fungus from the sicklepod plant, Arabis canadensis, found in the south-eastern United States, effectively controls kudzu.
In 1565 a Spanish galleon laden with cinnamon sailed from Manila to Mexico, finally linking up Spain's American colonies with the markets of south-east Asia.
It lives to the right-hand side of the arch as you come from a south-easterly direction.
The survey of 2,000 people found that 28% of middle Britons – by age and by wealth – throughout the UK will forgo a holiday altogether, while this figure rose to 38% of those questioned in the south-east. Middle Britons to forgo holiday abroad
It lives to the right-hand side of the arch as you come from a south-easterly direction.
The south-east monsoon cuts visibility from June to August, but the main rains come with the north-west monsoon from December to March, when heavy seas can restrict diving.
Throughout that Cape summer, as the prevailing south-easterlies blew long and warm from the Indian Ocean, they enjoyed a sybaritic life.
A short distance to the south-east, along a fantastic little rocky ridge, lies the last summit of the day, Loft Crag.
The vineyards of this propety overlook Saint Emilion and face south-east. This wine is produced from 70%Merlot, 30%Cabernet Sauvignon from 25 years old vines.
At 11 came south-east and by east over rich level land, grassed with herbage and wooded with box and bauhinia. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
In intricate black-and-white the map revealed Britain's south-easterly corner as a mesh of bridleways, brooks and field boundaries. Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review
Sixty miles to the south-east lay the second of the monster dams, again American-built, with its own town and hydropower centre. THE ENDLESS GAME
Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
The allegro begins in a beautiful apartment in south-east Paris, from which you can see the lights of the Eiffel Tower scanning the sky.
Most have doorways facing east and south-east, the direction of sunrise. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
Most diving takes place on the north side due to the prevailing south-easterly winds, and most of the sites are within easy reach.
The east Midlands, south-eastern England, and East Anglia were home to the most advanced arable farming in the British Isles.
The dominant axis runs between revolving doors at north-west and south-east corners, and, like the big space, it ascends the height of the building.
There are more than 900 species worldwide, most of which occur in mountains in subtropical and tropical regions from India to south-east Asia.

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