Sentence examples for southeasterly from inspiring English sources

Another problem for Panama is that some manufacturing is moving out of China as wage costs there rise and drifting to more southeasterly parts of Asia, closer to the Suez route.Panama is also facing challenges closer to home.

After rising in the Norwegian border mountains it flows for 270 miles (430 km) in a generally southeasterly direction through the provinces of Härjedalen and Hälsingland past the towns of Sveg, Ljusdal, and Bollnäs to the Gulf of Bothnia at Ljusne.

Hot, dry southeasterly winds known locally as the sirocco, ghibli (gibleh), or khamsin frequently blow into the Mediterranean basin from the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula as low-pressure centres traverse the sea in late winter and early spring.

It rises on Brahmagiri Hill of the Western Ghats in southwestern Karnataka state, flows in a southeasterly direction for 475 miles (765 km) through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and descends the Eastern Ghats in a series of great falls.

Savage storms are associated with northerly and southeasterly winds.

Cedar River, nonnavigable stream in the north-central United States, flowing from southeastern Minnesota southeasterly across Iowa and joining the Iowa River about 20 miles (32 km) from the Mississippi River.

The Columbia Mountains parallel the Canadian Rockies, of which they are sometimes considered a western extension, for about 370 miles (600 km) in a northwesterly-southeasterly direction.

James River, also called Jim River, or Dakota River, river rising in Wells county, central North Dakota, U.S., and flowing in a generally south-southeasterly direction across South Dakota, to join the Missouri River about 5 miles (8 km) below Yankton after a course of 710 miles (1,140 km).

Saskatchewan from north to south is marked by six recognizable bands of natural plant life, all running in a northwest-southeasterly direction and roughly following the pattern of soil zones.

Winds are predominantly easterly-southeasterly, although in the rainy season winds blow from the northwest and north.

As a result of those factors, northerlies and northwesterlies (nearly one-third of occurrences) and southeasterlies (more than one-third) dominate circulation patterns.