Sentence examples for western limits from inspiring English sources

British tanks surrounded the local headquarters of President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, and British troops set up a base at a former college inside the city's western limits.

The technology of iron making then spread widely; by 500 bc it had reached the western limits of Europe, and by 400 bc it had reached China.

But reactions from Chinese bankers and officials, including recent comments from the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, suggest that China is unlikely to revalue its currency soon or to bow to Western limits on Chinese garment exports.

The Pillars which, according to Homer, were created when Heracles broke the mountain that had connected Africa and Europe defined the western limits of navigation for the ancient Mediterranean world.

Fractures have sharply demarcated the range from the Castilian plateau (part of the Meseta Central) in the south and the Cantabrian coastlands in the north, but the eastern and western limits are indistinct.

Accordingly, we believe that the maximum error in our estimation of the size of the tsunami source area is, at most, a few tens of kilometers for its northern and western limits.

The Otter Trail runs from Storms River Mouth to Nature's Valley, a hamlet at the park's western limit that I visited the next day.

The Rocky (then referred to as "Stony") Mountains were accepted as the western limit of the Louisiana Territory, and the Mississippi River was considered for all practical purposes the eastern boundary of the great purchase.

Sgt. Joseph G. Harms, a squad leader in the company's Third Platoon, spent a week on the western limit of the company's area, his unit alone with what he described as a competent Afghan contingent.

The territory administered by China is situated largely in the southernmost part of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, with a small portion on the southeast and south sides lying within the extreme western limit of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The controversial decision to rig the draw has been justified by a series of compelling matches in Pools B and C, reaching new heights with Samoa's 20-12 victoverover Tonga on Friday, in front of a 12,000 crowd and a spectacular sunset in Penrith, at Sydney's western limit.