Panama and to block eventual control of the isthmus by interests allied with Communist China.
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Madison, Wisconsin, is situated on an isthmus between two lakes that draw hordes of hikers and bikers.
Balboa's mules crossed the isthmus at Panama in 1513, and Pizarro mounted the Andean spine in 1530.
In Central America, the president intends to recommit to fostering improved trade with the countries of the isthmus.
St Pierre is connected to Miquelon by a sandy isthmus, and is about an hour away by boat.
The surgeon removed one lobe and the isthmus of the barbell-shaped gland at the base of my neck.
The ability to prevent an alien power, such as China or the drug traffickers, from controlling the isthmus.
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Expansion of the port at Salina Cruz and the railway to it across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec would help too.
Thousands more Indian and Caribbean workers too succumbed to the malaria and yellow fever that swept the isthmus during the rainy season.
Wood died on November 29, 1981, off the isthmus of Catalina Island.
Yet this stretch of Singapore bisects an isthmus that is otherwise barely distinguishable from Nicaragua, a few hundred kilometres to the north-west.
Elsewhere in the isthmus, jailing a few corrupt politicians, and then doing the same to big tax evaders, might bring swifter returns.
And, to cap it all, climate change to which the unfortunate Central Americans have contributed virtually nothing seems to be increasing the ferocity of nature in the isthmus.
The self-styled Emerald City, which sits on a skinny isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington full of terrain obstructions, is normally a traffic sinkhole, anyway.
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The Peloponnese, a large and beautiful peninsula connected to the mainland of Greece by a narrow isthmus at Corinth, draws fewer American travelers than the Aegean islands.
Ortega's forces are dredging the river as part of an Iranian-sponsored project to build a canal along the Isthmus of Nicaragua that will rival the Panama Canal.
The context is well-known landmarks where they perform Red Bull sponsored events: A jump over the Corinth Isthmus, a dive in the Voullagmeni Lake, and a Formula One race.
The surprising object lesson: hard-headed Scotland, which in the 17th century attempted to build an overland trading route across the isthmus of Panama starting in an area known as Darien.
In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.
She had even figured out what would likely be my favorite restaurant in Oaxaca a simple place called La Teca, which specializes in the food of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest part of southern Mexico.
Rightly or wrongly, the Reagan administration believed that the whole Central American isthmus was about to go communist (it overlooked the fact that American support for right-wing dictators had blocked the path of peaceful change).
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Economists in Thailand suggest reviving plans for a gargantuan construction project digging a hole through the isthmus in southern Thailand (not quite pure Keynes: the hole would not be filled in, but form a canal tunnel linking the Pacific and Indian oceans).
This reinforced the Americans' desire to build and control a canal across the isthmus of Panama, so that their ships could move between the Atlantic and the Pacific without going all the way round Cape Horn (as the American battleship Oregon had to do during the war).
Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.
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