Example Sentences

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“The sanctions have been lethal,” said Diego Abete Brun, a political science professor who heads the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies program at George Washington University.

From Washington Times • Apr. 30, 2023

Yet even as he was being honoured with an award from the Pentagon's Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies as late as 2018, the case against him was being drafted by US prosecutors.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2020

Jacobson, assistant secretary of State for Western Hemispheric affairs, is expected to take up the position immediately in Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016

With a capital in ruins and reconstruction efforts stalled along with $5bn in promised aid Haiti needed an experienced manager and technocrat, said Larry Birns, head of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2010

Hemispheric: like the half of a globe or sphere.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.