The Han identity has served as the glue which has kept a geographically and demographically vast country together.
As I started to think about the dialectal differences among the pronunciation of "Reese's," a reoccurring theme kept coming up -- these geographically defined groups found within the United States.
Once upon a time, Hispanics and other minorities were kept mostly on the margins, geographically contained and easily identified and categorized by their skin color, food, music and language.
Adjusting the heading so that the angle between the target and the sun is kept constant will produce a geographically straight trajectory to the target over periods of time short enough that the sun's own geographical direction does not change significantly.
The constant relocating, he says now, was part of a futile bid to save the marriage: "We kept trying to solve nongeographical problems geographically".
One backup copy is kept at the IVI, which is geographically separated location from the field sites.
Housing them on the remote Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru has not only geographically isolated them from the Australian mainland, but also kept them at arm's length from the country's journalists and human rights activists.
To avoid confusion, the system keeps similar word combinations geographically separate – "pushy.inert.teaspoon" is a location in Texas and "inert.pushy.teaspoons" is in Alaska.
Not so for my daughter Kate, now 31, or for her friends, who are equally scattered geographically, but keep in touch constantly on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Pinterest and by text, e-mail, Gchat and Skype.
Its numbers increase from west-to-east and south-to-north, to keep identically numbered routes geographically apart in order to keep them from being confused with one another.
