The question is simply whether or not we shall have an isthmian canal. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He boarded this, and gave the captain a letter for the authorities of the isthmian port. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The Congress has wisely provided that we shall build at once an isthmian canal, if possible at Panama. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
In the foreign policy of the country the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with England dealt with the proposed isthmian canal. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
We must build the isthmian canal, which will unite the two oceans and give a straight line of water communication with the western coasts of. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
The question now, therefore, is not by which route the isthmian canal shall be built, for that question has been definitely and irrevocably decided. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, by the terms of which the United States and Great Britain agreed that neither would obtain any control over an isthmian canal without the other. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
The isthmian canal will greatly increase the efficiency of our Navy if the Navy is of sufficient size; but if we have an inadequate navy, then the building of the canal would be merely giving a hostage to any power of superior strength. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Oregon around Cape Horn revived the demand for an isthmian canal. From Wordnik.com. [The New Nation] Reference
Panama was brought about by the complications of the isthmian canal. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
Plateau, and in the constricted isthmian region, the continent afforded. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
We must seek it through the heart, that's where it isthmian to be found. From Wordnik.com. [CADRE Comments] Reference
The isthmian canal will greatly increase the efficiency of our Navy if the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address] Reference
How will the commerce of the Pacific be changed by the construction of an isthmian canal?. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
Porto Rico and our determination to build an isthmian canal made a large American navy inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy] Reference
The Spanish War made it abundantly evident that an isthmian canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific must be built. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power] Reference
Weakened by continuous revolution, that Republic realized that the isthmian right of way was its most valuable asset. From Wordnik.com. [The New Nation] Reference
The possession of a route for an isthmian canal, so long the dream of American statesmanship is now an accomplihed fact. From Wordnik.com. [Republican Hand-Book North Carolina. Republican State Executive Committee 1906] Reference
In those precivilized Panama days, the neutrality of the isthmian paths could not be assured, and so they were fortified. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
The possession of a route for an isthmian canal, so long the dream of American statesmanship, is now an accomplished fact. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Democratic Hand-Book 1906. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina] Reference
It is also in the route of vessels that may hereafter use the American isthmian canal in going between European and Asian ports. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
Modern Panamanian history has been shaped by its trans-isthmian canal, which had been a dream since the beginning of Spanish colonization. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is a similar intercontinental location in the isthmian region between the Mediterranean on the west and the ancient maritime routes of the. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
The catalysts of that drastic mutation were the necessary protection of the projected isthmian canal and Germany's aggressiveness in the Caribbean. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The isthmian short cut to Oceanica and Asia, comprising the coastal section of China's vast empire, enterprising Japan, the East Indies, Australia. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
These are simple facts to be pondered over by busy people who may possibly be in doubt as to whether the "father" of the isthmian enterprise was De Lesseps, Theodore. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
It has been said that, in our present state of unpreparedness, a trans-isthmian canal will be a military disaster to the United States, and especially to the Pacific coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future] Reference
We must build the isthmian canal, and we must grasp the points of vantage which will enable us to have our say in deciding the destiny of the oceans of the East and the West. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Strenuous Life] Reference
In frequent magazine articles I have insisted that the isthmian canal, "destined to make the United States the trade arbiter of the world," could never be expected to "pay" directly. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
The dangerous voyage of the Oregon in 1898 completed the conviction of the United States that an isthmian canal must be constructed, and that the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was no longer adequate. From Wordnik.com. [The New Nation] Reference
After a vain attempt to persuade Great Britain to abandon the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty respecting an isthmian canal, Frelinghuysen had disregarded it and acquired a complete right-of-way from Nicaragua. From Wordnik.com. [The New Nation] Reference
Often he constructs a canal, like that at Kiel or Corinth, to remove an isthmian obstruction to navigation; but occasionally he transforms his peninsula into an island for the sake of greater protection. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Here is a one-sided geographical location in an exaggerated form, emphasized by the physical and political barrenness of the adjacent regions of Africa and the strategic importance of the isthmian district between the. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Panama route is the best route for an isthmian canal to be owned, constructed, controlled, and protected by the United States. ". From Wordnik.com. [The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906] Reference
"The Grecians being at this time assembled at the isthmian games, where the concourse was mighty great, a crier, appointed to the office by. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference
To sack the isthmian town!. From Wordnik.com. [0 612. Phantoms All by Harriet Prescott Spofford. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
President to build an isthmian canal. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference
Spooner Act concerning isthmian canal, VI. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference
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