Sentence examples for northwest centered from inspiring English sources

It also lies within the Inland Northwest, centered around Spokane, and the Columbia Plateau ecoregion near the Okanogan Drift Hills.

The storm, moving northwest, was centered about 950 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and about 2,100 miles southeast of Miami, forecasters said.

Parochialism, it turns out, is a selling point that cuts little ice with many investors, because arbitrarily restricting investments to companies in just one area can hamper returns -- or magnify trouble, as investors in Pacific Northwest-centered funds found out when Microsoft melted down last week.

The earthquake was centered northwest of here near San Simeon, a coastal town midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco and the site of Hearst Castle, a popular tourist attraction.

During the cold phases of ENSO or PDO (La Niña or negative PDO), the AL is centered over the northwest Pacific and the NPH intensifies leading to strengthening of the CC, associated upwelling, and a weakening of DC.

In event B, from 20 to 40 s after the initial break, the rupture propagated to the northwest on a thrust fault centered about 30 km northeast of the epicenter.

Based on meteorological records kept by an officer of the U.S. steamer James Adger, a strong tropical storm was centered to the northwest of Aspinwall, Panama from November 22 through to November 25.

At peak, the storm was centered just west-northwest of Lázaro Cárdenas.

After the stunning defection on Monday of al-Ahmar, the chief of the military forces in Yemen's northwest, the center of gravity seemed to shift away from the presidential palace and to the protesters in the streets.

Currently, the effect is causing more rain in the northwest and center of Australia, and less precipitation in the more populated south and east regions of the continent.

The pornographic film industry is centered in the San Fernando Valley, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.