The bird nests only in northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest lest it be found.

The fish did not surface.Instead, it began to tow the skiff to the northwest.

If, for example, I simply want to get out at the northwest exit and walk along Wangfujing without any particular destination in mind, I have to ask the station employees for the right exit.

The land slopes downward from the northwest to the southeast.

Meanwhile a country such as Panama would prefer a cooler world in which ice continues to seal off the North-West Passage and to prevent competition with its canal.