isthmian

Examples

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• Yet the idea of an isthmian canal was firmly accepted and was increasingly thought of as an American technological project hereafter.

  Academic text (1992)

• The isthmian area served as a crucial land bridge for migration between the two continents.

• It also describes the most relevant published sources on the history of the Isthmian Republic, including government publications, periodicals, newspapers, and compilations.

  Academic text (1999)

• European nations, other Latin American nations, and such international organizations as the United Nations and the Organization of American States, which once had largely deferred to U.S. influence in the region, feared during the 1980s that the isthmian civil wars and U.S. intervention could escalate further.

  Academic text (2000)

• Once Texas was annexed to the United States in December 1845, the controversy moved southward to Central America, where both England and the United States planned the construction of an isthmian canal that would allow their commercial navies to reach the markets of China and Japan without circumnavigating the South American continent.

  Academic text (2001)

• In the mid-1930s, United Fruit's isthmian banana cultivations offered the pathogen almost fifty thousand hectares of susceptible plants, growing in massive, uniform blocks of three hundred to six hundred hectares.

  Academic text (2002)

• Historically, many ancient civilizations thrived around isthmian regions due to their strategic locations.

Compounds

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Isthmian Games

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A major ancient Greek festival that happens every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth with sports and music contests

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Etymology