Sentence examples for lost its north from inspiring English sources

By the time France declared war in 1793 the British empire was in decline; it had lost its North American colonies a decade earlier.

Britain lost its North American empire through a common mistake: it misunderstood the nature of its power.

And a magnet such as iron has a critical temperature at which it loses its north and south magnetic poles: the magnetic poles of its constituent atoms are no longer aligned but become randomised and scrambled by the heat.

The duchy sided with the Austrians in the Seven Weeks' War (1866) and consequently lost its territory north of the Main River to the Prussian-sponsored North German Confederation.

As France lost its other North American colonies from Canada to Louisiana, the little archipelago (two main islands and a smattering of tiny ones) gained symbolic importance.

On the morning of August 18, A Company again lost its position to North Korean attack and again regained it by counterattack.

European antiquity was defined by the geographic hold of the Mediterranean, but as Rome lost its hinterlands, history moved north.

Flora gradually lost its convection over the north Atlantic Ocean, and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October 12 while located 270 mile east-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.

The Atlantic's northward-flowing Benguela Current softens Gabon's southern coastline by creating sandbars but loses its effectiveness north of the country's most westerly point, Cape Lopez, where the contour of the coast becomes more jagged.

(True North, meanwhile, lost its independence anyway, bought by Interpublic last June).

Atlantic City, once the gambling mecca for America's north-east, lost its casino monopoly in the region when neighbouring states began legalising gambling a decade ago.