On the western sides, trees are scarce.
The southern and western sides were protected by a strong fortification system.
Warm currents transport heat from lower latitudes poleward and tend to occur on the western sides of oceans.
Gunfire ebbed in those areas, but skirmishes could be heard on the city's southern and western sides.
Former farm fields and freshwater ponds stretch to the cordgrass tidal marshes on the western sides of the islands.
Monsoon effects modify this general pattern, while the subtropical anticyclone plays a role in the explanation of climate on the western sides of the continents in the subtropics.
Perpendicular cliffs rise 1,600 to 2,300 feet (490 to 700 metres) on the eastern, northern, and western sides of the island.
Along their higher and wetter western sides, they tend to be deep, leached (percolated by water), acidic, porous, and well-drained.
While Biu's southern and western sides are quite steep, the plateau slopes more gradually in the north onto the Bauchi Plains and the Chad Basin.
And because the eastern and western sides wanted to retain many of their own institutions, Berlin supported dual universities, medical schools, public hospitals and symphony orchestras.
Although there is an entrance to the facility here, it is clearly subordinate to the more ornate entrances and plazas on the northern, eastern and western sides.
