southern
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He also said that the Israeli military would "continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon".
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
A buffer zone in southern Lebanon would do little to eliminate that threat, Heller told AFP, "for which it doesn't seem like the Israelis have an effective countermeasure."
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
“He was wrong to do so,” Mr. Pence tells us, “as the Jim Crow laws of the southern states amounted to a systematic abuse of the nation’s highest principles.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Jackson rose to thank Ames and his northern colleagues for seeing the light and recovering the old conciliatory spirit that had once permitted northern and southern interests to cooperate.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
