Sentence examples for contiguous nations from inspiring English sources

Most worryingly, in the contiguous nations of central and eastern Africa, where the states are weak, a rash of uncontained conflicts has spread, their violence and refugees flowing outward and overlapping, in a great bulge of mayhem that extends from the Horn to the Nile and from the Great Lakes region to the Sahel.

And don't forget how, over the past few years, U.S. staging areas, mini-bases, and airfields have popped up in the contiguous nations of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and --  skipping Chad (where AFRICOM recently built temporary facilities for a special ops exercise) -- the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

Brazil is the largest contiguous nation to play host to soccer's premier event, and by staging games at both ends of the continent-sized country, organizers have created a nightmare for teams like the U.S., which will travel nearly 9,000 miles to play three games during the 10-day group stage.

The real fault lies with powerful drug cartels that have exploited a well-intentioned law signed before President Obama took office that forbids the U.S. from deporting minors who enter the country from non-contiguous nations until their immigration cases are decided.

The rest come from five contiguous European nations.

As a result, what's left of the occupied territories for the Palestinians looks less like the contiguous mini-nation it could be, and more like a bizarre, landlocked archipelago [21].

Those questions were investigated using data from 30 mostly contiguous Western Hemisphere nations and three amassing methodological objectives.

In a long-awaited final environmental impact statement, the agency said its alternative was a compromise that reflected "a focus on the immediate and shorter-term needs of the nation to re-establish a sovereign homeland and on the New York State and local government requests to consider a more compact and contiguous trust land group".

Among the nation's contiguous states, it is the only one that has its own electric grid, and this relative isolation means less outside help is available in emergencies.

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There's also a generosity of spirit that leveraged more than $1 billion in public funding to rally hundreds of donors to each give millions of dollars to build the largest contiguous urban cultural district in the nation.