Sentence examples for easterly from inspiring English sources

Days when there is even a modest easterly wind are greatly appreciated in west London, because flights on those days neither land nor take off over the area.

Starting in March 2015, the intention is to fly this plane around the world using only the power of the sun.With 17,248 solar cells on its wings driving four electric motors that turn its propellers, the aircraft will take off from the Gulf and head in an easterly direction over India and China, and then cross the Pacific, the United States, the Atlantic, Southern Europe and north Africa.

Mr Easterly thinks that this approach to helping the poor is seductive but dangerously wrong-headed.Visionaries, such as Mr Sachs, want to abolish poverty.

Both Mr Easterly and Mr Vásquez also doubt the World Bank's claims that it has made its aid disbursals more selective.

This easterly route (see map), which is more than 1,100 kilometres (700 miles) long, was partly intended to help satisfy Tianjin's thirst, but its construction has suffered years of delays.The project will initially provide water to the provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui.

Civil order has worn dangerously thin already in Dagestan, Chechnya's easterly neighbour.

Svaneke is the island's (and Denmark's) most-easterly town and is slightly less touristy, or at least more upmarket, than Gudhjem.

The French embassy put out a safety alert to its nationals living in Tokyo, noting that north-easterly winds from the area around Fukushima could bring low-level radioactive contamination to the capital, 250km away, within 10 hours.

Another problem for Panama is that manufacturing is moving out of China as wage costs there rise much of it is drifting to more south-easterly parts of Asia, closer to the Suez route.Panama is also facing challenges closer to home.

A high-pressure area that lies well to the south-west (and is associated with periods of fewer intense storms), diverts hurricanes to the Gulf coast; north-easterly high pressure tends to send them towards the Atlantic coast.This pattern is also reflected in the amount of damage that big storms have done over the years.

France, suspicious of NATO's new north-easterly tilt, has been loudly championing France-friendly Romania.