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Warm water pool approaches South American coast.
In the south, it approaches the northern coast of Africa.
As the tsunami approaches the coast and the waters become shallow, wave shoaling compresses the wave and its speed decreases below.
* January 28, 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approaches the Antarctic coast ( see History of Antarctica ).
Ireland has several main groups of accents, including ( 1 ) those of Dublin and surrounding areas on the east coast where English has been spoken since the earliest period of colonisation from Britain, ( 2 ) the accents of Ulster, with a strong influence from Scotland as well as the underlying Gaelic linguistic stratum which in that province approaches the Gaelic of Scotland, and ( 3 ) the various accents of west, midlands and south.
An officer observes Omaha Beach as his landing craft approaches the Norman coast.
Most of these zones run in narrow bands stretching from north to south, although this is less true as one approaches the Atlantic coast.
Mahan pushed the concept of the " big navy " and an expansionist view where defence was achieved by controlling the sea approaches rather than fortifying the coast.
Many others were commissioned during the nineteenth century, especially off England's east coast and the approaches to the Thames, where there were many treacherous shoals.
After he has already broken several of them, he travels south along the coast of Ireland, he is advised to stay the night at Da Derga's Hostel, but as he approaches it, he sees three men dressed in red riding red horses arriving before him.
The derivative part is concerned with the rate-of-change of the error with time: If the measured variable approaches the setpoint rapidly, then the actuator is backed off early to allow it to coast to the required level ; conversely if the measured value begins to move rapidly away from the setpoint, extra effort is applied — in proportion to that rapidity — to try to maintain it.
* Hurricane Ignacio approaches the coast of Baja California.
When a low pressure front over the Mediterranean approaches the coast from the southeast, the weather can change quickly for the worse, and the mistral and its clear sky changes rapidly to an east wind bringing humid air and threatening clouds.
In Greenland these winds are called Piteraq and are most intense whenever a low pressure area approaches the coast.
The land around Parihaka began to be surveyed and work began, from both northern and southern approaches, on a coast road between New Plymouth and Hawera.
However, the IRA plan gave no thought to how German troops were to be brought to Derry, how control of the sea approaches was to be obtained or where and how the coast of Northern Ireland was fortified.
It is named in a 1963 British atlas, but a 1972 article states " what British maps call the western approaches, and what the oil industry calls the Celtic Sea [...] certainly the residents on the western coast Great Britain don't refer to it as such.
The tower is built over the thick-walled artillery positions in the basement, which defend the south and east approaches, and have similarities with the contemporary " blockhouse " at Dunbar Castle, further along the coast.
Lying on the coast between the mountains of southern central Vietnam and the alluvial plains of the Mekong Delta, it dominated the approaches to the port of Vung Tau and the main highway to the capital.
Hurst Castle on the south coast of England is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, built at the end of a long shingle spit at the west end of the Solent to guard the approaches to Southampton.
Since arriving in June, the Japanese had built on the north coast hundreds of well-camouflaged, reinforced bunkers in mutually supporting positions blocking all available approaches.
The territory of the parish rises gradually from the coast, first as a relatively gentle slope, but at an increasingly rugged grade as one approaches the heights of the Serra de Santa Bárbara, where five streams have their sources: the Gatos, the São Roque, the Lajinhas, the Lapa, and the Pamplona.
On Alvingham Fen it meets Conisholme and the Seven Towns North Eau, a one of the constituents of the River Lud as it approaches the coast.
As the Community Center's grand opening approaches, along with the last days of Anna's east coast assignment, the relationships begin to mend.

approaches and South
General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).
The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.
A great white shark approaches divers in a cage off Dyer Island, Western Cape, South Africa.
As the Great Artesian Basin underlies parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, which each operate under different legislative frameworks, policies and resource management approaches, a coordinated " whole-of-Basin " approach to the management of this important natural resource is required.
* As winter solstice approaches, the angle at which the sun rises and sets progressively moves further toward the South and the daylight hours will become shorter
A freight train approaches the town of South Raub, Indiana | South Raub on the border of Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana | Randolph and Wea Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana | Wea Townships.
From the north, U. S. Route 101 South approaches Cotati as a multilane freeway with a single exit at Gravenstein Highway.
The two agents take completely different approaches: Agent Alan Ward ( Dafoe ), a young liberal northerner, takes a direct approach to the investigation ; Agent Rupert Anderson ( Hackman ), a former Mississippi sheriff who understands the intricacies of race relations in the South, takes a more subtle tack.
Early the following year, the pipeline crossed the Laotian frontier through the Mu Gia Pass and, by 1970, it reached the approaches to the A Shau Valley in South Vietnam.
By 1951, Korea was split, into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North and the Republic of Korea or South Korea from which emerged two different approaches to music.
Bobby then approaches Coach Klein ( Henry Winkler ) of the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs and asks to work as the team's water boy.
* London Area Control Centre and London Terminal Control Centre at Swanwick in Hampshire control both upper level en-route traffic across England and Wales up to the Scottish border and low-level traffic around London and South East England, including aircraft making approaches to the main London airports.
In the case of El Niño warm water approaches the coasts of South America which results in blocking the upwelling of nutrient-rich deep water.
The London and Brighton Railway had also experienced difficult relations with the South Eastern Railway at those locations where the companies shared facilities ( notably at Redhill and Hastings and on the approaches to London Bridge ).
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around the approaches to London Bridge station | London Bridge, showing the original position of South Bermondsey station
The plane approaches Phan Rang Air Base at Phan Rang, South Vietnam, as if to land, overshoots the base leg, begins a left turn, and crashes, killing all 75 people on board.
Fearing a breakthrough, Hoge warned out the 27th Brigade, as the corps reserve, to establish defensive positions north of Kapyong on the afternoon of 23 April as a precaution in the event the South Koreans were unable to hold, tasking them with blocking the two approaches to the village and to prevent the Chinese from cutting Route 17, a key route south to Seoul and an important main supply route.
Accordingly, Weight Watchers is generally compatible with other diet approaches and / or food intake restrictions ( e. g., the paleolithic diet and South Beach diet ), provided participants use the Weight Watchers framework to measure and limit the quantity of food consumed while using the other diet plan to dictate the range of acceptable food choices.
This stands in marked contrast to approaches such as the South Beach or Atkins diets, in which some foods are completely forbidden and others are permitted in as great a quantity as the dieter likes.
Pro-actively, CUSO explored new approaches to programming and volunteer-sending, including the placement of cooperants from the Global South to the North, and in-country and South-South volunteer placements.
As US 31 approaches southern South Bend, Indiana it converges with US 20 and proceeds westwards then north on a freeway ( the St. Joseph Valley Parkway ), bypassing South Bend and proceeding into Michigan.

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