Sentence examples for seaboard states from inspiring English sources

When their numbers seemed to be dropping alarmingly, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, or A.S.M.F.C., to which New York and the other Atlantic seaboard states belong, set harvest quotas.

Facing opposition from New Jersey lawmakers in both parties, the Bush administration abandoned a plan today to study the impact of oil and gas drilling off the coast of New Jersey and other Eastern Seaboard states.

This year's race – the 30th – ran May 4-11, covering 3,380 miles in a loop beginning in Northern Indiana, heading due south to New Orleans, cutting across Florida's panhandle to Daytona, then driving north through the centers of Eastern Seaboard states to cut through western Pennsylvania and northern Ohio on the way back to the starting point.

In February of that year, he agreed to edit his three earlier volumes, "A Journey in the Seaboard States" (1856), "A Journey Through Texas" (1857) and "A Journey in the Back Country" (1860) and reissue them as a two-volume work titled "The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slaves States".

The broiling heat yesterday pushed electricity use to record levels in New York, New England and several other Eastern Seaboard states, but power companies reported few failures as they braced for more high temperatures this week that could give their systems the toughest test in years.

An E-ZPass or Fast Lane transponder can be used to pay the tolls in nine eastern seaboard states, and eventually will be able to communicate with every tollbooth between Maine and Florida, said Terry O'Brien of the New York State Thruway Authority.

The big game was on the horizon, and, as was customary, the governor of the Eastern Seaboard state put up a crate of the local delicacy, a seafood, and his West Coast counterpart responded by staking a case of his state's finest wine.

Olmsted had studied the economic feasibility of slavery in his influential prewar book A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, and in early 1862 he applied those insights to the situation in Port Royal.

Away from the eastern seaboard, the state sector still dominates.

The clockwork loop current in the Gulf could soon catch the slick and convey it towards the ecologically vulnerable Florida Keys and from there round to Miami and the eastern seaboard of the state.

There is no coastal plain; from this seaboard the land rises abruptly to coastal mesas, which, together with a few inland river valleys, provide the principal wealth of the state sugar, pineapples, and sisal, together with livestock and hides.