Sentence examples for Northwest from inspiring English sources
noun
The compass point halfway between north and west, bearing 315, abbreviated as NW.
The northwest coastal rivers are currently the subject of a flood watch.
Now we were in the foothills of the mighty Altai mountain range: a barely touched mosaic of alpine meadows, spruce forests and glaciated peaks along the border between Kazakhstan and the far northwest of China.
Destructive winds gusting up to 120km/h were being experienced on the Gove peninsula late on Sunday afternoon as Nathan moved northwest into Arnhem Bay and towards Elcho Island at about 14km/h.
Parts of northwest and southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia got snow, while sleet and freezing rain prevailed west and north of Richmond.
Related: Malaysia tells thousands of Rohingya refugees to 'go back to your country' She was among about 4,000 Muslims of the Rohingya minority living in what amounts to a ghetto known as Aung Ming Lar, a cramped quarter of Buddhist-dominated Sittwe in Burma's northwest state of Rakhine.
Way above the Tasman Sea, a gigantic high-pressure system moved slowly, while to the northwest an intense tropical low butted against a great monsoon trough that stretched over the north of the continent.
After all, hostility to proposed mergers such as United Airlines and US Airways in 2001 and Delta Air Lines and US Airways in 2006 had given way in recent years to approval of big marriages, including between United and Continental airlines, Delta and Northwest and US Airways and American West.
It seems they were "discussing the new monthly crew flight scheduling system" that is now in place as a result of the Delta-Northwest merger, and were looking at their laptops (something they are forbidden to do on the flight deck).(Photo credit: AFP).
Other alliance members, Alitalia and Northwest, have already agreed to revenue-sharing with KLM.Nissan's plant in Sunderland, in the north of England, maintained its position as the most productive European car plant, producing 105 vehicles per employee in 1998, up from 98 in the previous year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Given that GE has a further 255 aircraft placed with Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines and America West, it could soon have to dip its hand into its deep pockets again to fend off the effects of leases going bad as another of these operating airlines goes bust.
In 1994, for example, Congress passed the Northwest Forest Plan, a measure that reduced logging on public lands partly in order to protect the northern spotted owl.
