When you cross the date line from west to east on, say, Tuesday, it suddenly becomes Monday.
Since reunification a trillion Euros have been transferred from West to East, to boost the economy there.
The shift in military spending from west to east is also affecting the world's biggest western defence contractors.
You might say it's not just economic power that has shifted from West to East in this crisis.
Polynesians are descended from southeast Asians, and moved across the Pacific from west to east, eventually reaching remote islands such as Easter and Hawaii.
The city's southern edge grows increasingly business-like from west to east.
With its location at the intersection of three continents, Dubai captures not only the shift in economic power from West to East, but also the rise of the South.
He warned that influence and power would drift from West to East unless Europe was united and member states co-operated even more closely on trade, energy and the environment.
Interestingly, the directional effect is reversed for basketball: teams crossing the country from west to east scored four more points per game than those travelling in the opposite direction.
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Spin in the storm's updraft is enhanced when the air entering the base of the updraft is from the south, while the winds further aloft are flowing from west to east.
Rigorous controls on the flow of sensitive technologies from West to East as well as North to South have to replace greedy, shortsighted parochial interest as the order of the day.
Power is shifting from West to East, technology is rejiggering the relationship between growth and jobs, and both trends are intersecting in ways that have undercut the upward trajectory of our economy.
The Thames Tideway Tunnel will be the width of three London buses and will run for 20 miles from west to east London, connecting up the 34 of the most polluting sewer overflows.
The Vendee Globe race, seen as one of the ultimate challenges for offshore skippers, involves sailing around the world from west to east via the three major capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and the Horn.
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Before a crowd of 400, with music blaring and bright lights pulsing, four entrepreneur finalists, screened for their business plans, competed in a speed round of area code numbers for high-tech centers from west to east.
In a diseased, lawless, polluted wasteland, the whole remaining American population is on the move from west to east, where, it is said, ships await to cart the remnants of a once-great nation to the Valhalla of other lands.
Looking ahead two years, the decision to relocate from West to East hinges on whether you believe financial jobs will be easier to find in Hong Kong -- as opposed to London or New York -- and whether you believe you are that much better than the competition.
From west to east in Vancouver proper, hit Eric Hamber Secondary School, the school featured in both Juno and 21 Jump Street, stop by Burnaby City Hall, shown in Snakes on a Plane, and visit Simon Fraser University, which made an appearance in the Robert Redford political thriller Spy Game.
On Monday, the report " Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds" forecast that U.S. economic and international influence will decline in the next two decades as a shift of global power moves from the West to the East, and from the North to the South.
There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east.
Everybody, from north to south to east to west, from sea to shining sea, the American people are united in support of you and your families.
It was suddenly easier to go from East to West than the other way around.
At its height, it took four months to travel from east to west and two months north to south.
It is time for an even greater shift in spending power from the West to the East.
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As the trend becomes more pronounced, it is one more indicator of an economic power shift from the west to the east.
It's difficult to build roads from east to west.
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Once completed, the Crossrail route will run 73 miles from east to west across London, improving access to Heathrow Airport, central London and towns to the east.
Remember that Harlem is a very large community, it spans from 116th Street to 145th Street from the east side to the west side.
Were the Armenian-Azerbaijani and the Armenian-Turkish borders to open, goods would flood freely from east to west, lowering prices and increasing supply.
What Germany did, however, was to merge two complete systems from West and East Germany to lie them on top of one another in untamed form, such that both were fundamentally redefined.
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