Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

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The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

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It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

They landed at Hadley Rille near the Apennine Mountains, northwest of the place where Apollo Eleven had landed.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The Senate confirmed him in May. Formerly,he was the police chief in Seattle,Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

But roses are also native to other areas including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

He returned home because of the ethnic violence in Xinjiang province in northwest China.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Chris Murray from the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest led the study.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Last week we told you about a prison training program in the American Northwest.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

General Franz Sigel would bring thousands more through the Shenandoah Valley to the northwest.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In Pakistan,it says, more than two million people have been forced from their homes by the conflict in the Swat Valley and other areas of the northwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The same thing happened in the Shenandoah River Valley northwest of Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Douglas believed that the northwest should have two representatives in the cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He traveled through the states of the northwest, making many speeches.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find out.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

(Sound) He says the recent violence shows the militants want to bring the frontlines from Pakistan's violent northwest to Punjab province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Hasham Baber is an official in the Awami National Party, a secular political party whose constituency is largely in Pakistan's northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Several senior government delegations in the past two days have visited Terre'Blanche's family in Northwest Province to offer condolences.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

General Abbas also says the military has forces deployed throughout the northwest in case there is a backlash against the offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"In terms of disruption to aviation I think this is probably the worst it's been in northwest Europe."

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Their arrival has raised the total number of displaced people in the northwest to about one million people.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

A fishery in Northwest Illinois has agreed to take in the Asian Carp to process them as fertilizer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Airstrikes and artillery barrages effectively ended months of negotiations to try to avoid violence by establishing Islamic law in parts of the northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

One of his goals is to raise $150,000 to help a missionary group in northwest Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"I welcome President Zadari's determination to confront militants who have been challenging the authority of the democratically elected government in the northwest frontier province,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.17

Canada's northernmost territories Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut cover more than 3.5 million square kilometers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

The upper level winds are still transporting that down towards the U.K.and northwest Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26