How To Use Strait In A Sentence

Straits director Eric Lim said an ethylene dichloride (EDC) plant was in the planning stages and would be budgeted for separately. ANC Daily News Briefing
The oil terminal is in the narrow strait that separates the island from the mainland.
The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
In straitened circumstances we must all learn to cut our coats according to our cloths, right? Times, Sunday Times
Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
The country's rail capacity is squeezing into the narrowest straits in its history. Times, Sunday Times
It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
In France, there is no ideological straitjacket that prohibits intervention. Times, Sunday Times
Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits.
They are spoken in the Torres Strait, and among Aborigines in northern Australia.
Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. BookBrowse Previews April Books
Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.
Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
The poisoned workers were taken from the plant in straitjackets, hallucinating, convulsing and screaming.
And to the west, across the Lombok Strait, a faint outline of Bali's Mount Agung becomes visible through the morning mist. The Next Bali
Steep and antithetic platy structure of rock mass and geomorphology of the longitudinal valley in the dam site area cause wide-range toppling deformation on the cross-strait slope.
The most frequently quoted remark was one made by the great English engineer Robert Stephenson, builder of the famous Britannia railroad bridge, a tubular iron bridge, over the Menai Strait the trains ran through a succession of enormous iron boxes set on stone piers. The Great Bridge
The apartment block in which the contestants live looks utterly out of keeping with straitened times. Times, Sunday Times
The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Then she called her handmaid and said to her, Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. ' Arabian nights. English
The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
‘I'll Wait For You’ is another fine example of the latter, and another from Strait's ilk, as lovely as this kind of country balladry gets.
She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.
He is still a little straitened, a little pestered by the doubting and critical optics which our time turns upon man, a little victimized by his knowledge of limitary conditions and secondary laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
`I suppose you could say that I'm living as a loose woman, but really I'm very strait-laced about marriage -- other people's marriages. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.
Awards made under an extraordinarily lavish arrangement agreed by investors during less straitened times will remain intact. Times, Sunday Times
I can see (as in foresee, not agree) someone in dire straits noticing deer travelling through their yard at night and bushwacking one for meat. "Biggest Bird Poacher" Caught In California
People come up with the best ideas when they are in dire straits. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
When you were in dire straits she was superb. The Glasgow Girls
‘People pass other climbers who are clearly in dire straits,’ says Tom Sjogren.
The road is strait and spacious and kept in excellent repair by the industrious inhabitants, and is generally bordered by tall and spreading trees as the magnolia, liquid amber, liriodendron, catalpa and live oak, and on the verges of the canals where the road was causewayed, stood the cyprus, lacianthus and magnolia, all planted by nature and left standing by the virtuous inhabitants, to shade the road and perfume the sultry air. Agricultural Resources of Georgia. Address Before the Cotton Planters Convention of Georgia at Macon, December 13, 1860
In the Strait a light chop sparkled. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
They have neither the experience nor, in some cases, the basic knowledge needed to escape from its straitjacket. Times, Sunday Times
Exasperated with the straitlaced protocols of concertgoing, Mr. Kantor and Mr. Handler decided to open a club that would present an eclectic mix of programming, not just old and new works from the classical music tradition, but rock, jazz, world music and anything else that might entice people, especially young people, who are curious about out-there music and care little about labels. DesignerBlog
These are also the most thorny and fundamental issues affecting Taiwan's management of cross-strait trade and economic relations over the past decade.
A municipal borough of northwest Wales on a narrow strait of the Irish Sea opposite Anglesey Island.
He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket.
It is a beautiful little town situated on the southern side of the Menai Strait at nearly its western extremity. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Last month, the government proposed allowing indirect charter cargo flights between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
They imagined that Magellan, when talking of an animal under the name of "conejos" in the Strait of Magellan, referred to this species; but he was alluding to a small cavy, which to this day is thus called by the Spaniards. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The jamming caused considerable confusion and slowed the British reaction, and as a result the German warships had passed through the strait of Dover before the first attacks were launched against them.
The East River, in fact a tidal strait, is littered with smaller islands like Roosevelt, Randall's, Rikers, and Ward.
This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
The Golden Gate, a 4,200 ft suspension bridge, spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island.
Even the simulated F-16 fighter jet you were piloting into a hostile zone near the Strait of Hormuz.
The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis.
Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
He informed Heemskerk of the arrival in the straits of Malacca of an immense Lisbon carrack, laden with pearls and spices, brocades and precious-stones, on its way to Europe, and suggested an attack. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
If it really existed, the plains of the Lower Orinoco would communicate with those of the Amazon only by a very narrow land-strait, on the east of the mountainous country which surrounds the source of the Rio Negro: but it is more probable that this mountainous country (a small system of mountains, geognostically dependent on the Sierra Parime) forms as it were an island in the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
As we chugged across the Bosphorus we passed a school of ferries criss-crossing the straits in their livery of yellow and white.
After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
When this motion is completely arrested, I suggest that we blow up the Aleutian Isles and enlarge Bering Strait, so as to allow what corresponds to the Atlantic Gulf Stream in the Pacific to enter the Arctic Archipelago, which I have calculated will raise the average temperature of that entire region about thirty degrees, thereby still further increasing the amount of available land. A Journey in Other Worlds
It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
I've biked up mountains from Seattle to Italy, I've swum across the Straits of Mackinac and from Alcatraz to San Francisco, I'm running the Boston Marathon in just a few weeks, and that's just a little of it. The 'Riffs Interview: 'FRAZZ' creator Jef Mallett on art, childhood -- and inspiration at the 10-year mark
Because of the harsh cold weather, the once theorized Bering Strait that was thought to have frozen over to allow the primitives to cross to North America, was now again solidly frozen.
It's a magic you are just right to me when I strait and mope.
Doth not what strait we are in suffice us, but you must make water upon us?’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
“Sure, son, sure,” Jack answered with a distrait tone. Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
Ameche and Tierney are a handsome, appealing pair from their first meeting in a bookshop, while Charles Coburn (as scampish Grandpa Hugo) and Allyn Joslyn (as Henry's strait-laced cousin Albert) round out a fabulous supporting cast. John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch'
Denmarkcontrols Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen Geography-note
‘The opening of the charter flights does not mean that direct sea and air links across the strait can also be realized,’ Chen said.
We were right in our guesses here to a tittle, and we steered directly through a large outlet, which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad, and to an island they call Dammer, and from thence N.N.E. to The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Despite the official ban on direct trade with China, cross-strait trade soared into record territory, economics officials said yesterday.
People who find themselves in dire economic straits throughout America tomorrow may also be expected to turn to the red-curtained drama of mass violence in order to “send a message” across the footlights. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected.
I am in dire financial straits, though not through overspending. The Sun
This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals.
The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity, a multi-coloured straitjacket and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.
The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
April 21, 2010 at 10:20 am psssst tern rite at da first left. continu on strait untill u reech da end ob da paveded road. walk elebenty pacez. tern 95 degreez kinda hot here an dere u will finda cheezeburgr tree! Purranysaurus rex - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Some forecast models are growing this system into a tropical storm and moving it northwestward toward the Yucatan Channel (the strait between Mexico and Cuba) in about 5 days. Tropical trouble brewing?
There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances.
David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had graciously accepted his prayer, taken cognizance of his case, and granted him an answer of peace. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
There are two species: Pudu pudu is distributed in parts of southern Bolivia and throughout much of southern Chile nearly to the Straits of Magellan. 26 Mouse Deer
The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
In these straitened times it would be a very sensible way of reducing government spending. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame and my tears a torrent became mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The movie's high point—its very high point—is Frances McDormand's sensational performance as Sam's mother, Jane, a pansexual record producer who can't suppress a nervous giggle when she introduces her strait-laced son to a gaggle of indolent musicians. 'Contraband': Almost Illegally Entertaining
You guys are so strait-laced, but you go crazy when you're let off your leashes.
No. At its narrowest point the strait is 28 miles wide. Times, Sunday Times
It is a world that has more meaning for them than the badly-run straitjacketed confines of government schools.
If these are straitened times, the newly anointed business secretary wants to do his bit. Times, Sunday Times
His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give him any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol.
Brendel, on the other hand, presented the piano parts in his customary bleak way, clothing the songs in an expressive straitjacket completely at odds with Goerne's fluid vocalism.
Since then medical practice has been straitjacketed by its artificiality, to the detriment of the patient's own narrative.
But while Strait and McEntire continue to endure on the charts, Haggard and Jones are most effective selling concert tickets.
Interestingly, the employees do not work in a rigid, straitjacketed fashion.
You may have a theoretical moral duty to help those who are in considerably worse straits than yourself. Christianity Today
Following an opening of direct links, it may become possible to make day trips to China, geographical barriers will be eliminated, and there will be constant exchanges across the strait.
The Suspension Bridge at Niagara is an artificial wonder as great, in its degree, as the natural miracle of the mighty cataract which thunders forever at its side; while no triumph of inventive economy could more aptly lead the imaginative stranger into the picturesque beauties of Wales than the extraordinary tubular bridge across the Menai Strait. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
He has spent the past two years using digital technology to bring together people in desperate straits, getting things done while others were pontificating.
They are not second-tier officials, but strait-laced Party servants previously entrusted with lofty responsibilities. Yoani Sanchez: Card-Carrying Communist Green Collar Criminals: Planning for Their Futures as Capitalists
The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean.
The organisations also require ownership from the people on the ground and time to develop before we move headlong into another straitjacketed, bureaucratic institution.
First, He brought me here, it is by His will I am in this strait place: in that fact I will rest.
Steep and antithetic platy structure of rock mass and geomorphology of the longitudinal valley in the dam site area cause wide-range toppling deformation on the cross-strait slope.
Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island.
This week from San Francisco's world famous landmark, at the mouth of the Golden Gate straits.
From this point the outer arm of the cantilever extended far out over the broad chasm of the strait, where, a hundred and fifty feet beneath its unfloored level, the broken ice from the upper lake crashed and thundered on its wild passage of the strait. Out of the Primitive
Iran borders the Strait of Hormuz, conduit for roughly two - fifths of all globally traded oil.
Optional add-ons include horse-riding, canyoning, and whale-watching in the Straits of Gibraltar.
The Australian government's lack of consensus on taxation and environmental issues has threatened several oil and gas projects, including the North West Shelf expansion, Gorgon gasfield development, Bayu Undan, PNG Gas Pipeline, Methanex's Syngas facility in Darwin and Duke Energy's Bass Strait Pipeline. Energy profile of Australia
The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the straitjacket.
But before he could sail into the Beaufort Sea, the ship was blocked by pack ice and forced to winter-over in Prince of Wales Strait along the east coast of Banks Island. HMS Investigator, Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years, Recovered In Canada
The weathered speedboats line up along three small piers every morning, right next to large police boats that patrol the strait.
It is only understandable that, in straitened circumstances, people hug the thought that charity begins at home. Times, Sunday Times
Even Isabella began straitening out her blue dress.
If these are straitened times, the newly anointed business secretary wants to do his bit. Times, Sunday Times
“Was ever woman in a strait so fearful!” exclaimed the Lady of Lochleven — “At least, thou rash boy, beware that no one tastes the food, but especially the jar of succory-water.” The Abbot
Imagine That by having One Way Out "escapologist" Jonathan Goodwin show him how to break free of his kiddie movie straitjacket. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Sackers" like Brady – who in truth does not do a lot on JuniorApprentice but presumably got the gig for her experience of working with self-made men of vaguely scrotal appearance – are clearly going to be in increasingly high demand in these straitened times. 'Sacker' Karren Brady would never sugar the pill for Gianfranco Zola
The music center, which is positioned above the shopping like a keystone connecting the two sides of the building, is wedged in unceremoniously, and visually lost, straitjacketed by the larger building.
Other scholars heard that he was unwell and sent him notes made remote by their instinct that his straits must mortify him.
The family of eight was living in straitened circumstances .
She can write an expansive melody that's well structured but isn't straitjacketed by chorus and verse.
From there the runners tackled Snowden, then it was another dash to get into the treacherous Menai Straits before the tide turned and made the passage impossible.
We had to steer our ship through the swift currents of the Bering Straits.
Region 4 (Northeast Canada, Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and West Greenland) is a region of fragmented landmasses that are often extensively glaciated or have recently become deglaciated. Scenarios of projected changes in the four ACIA regions for 2020, 2050, and 2080
On 27 May 1905, after half circumnavigating the world, the Russian fleet was surprised by the Japanese in the Straits of Tsushima between Korea and Japan.
Trails on the bluffs offer sights of Benicia and the strait.
But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Note, Though Christ's disciples be brought into wants and straits, through their own carelessness and incogitancy, yet he encourages them to trust in him for relief. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The organisation, founded two months ago, not only tries to help victims in dire straits, but also helps to arrange funerals for those killed.
And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
Note, To distrust Christ, and to disturb ourselves when we are in straits and difficulties, is an evidence of the weakness of our faith, which, if it were in exercise as it should be, would ease us of the burthen of care, by casting it on the Lord, who careth for us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
You apparently took no time to think about the definition of intelligence I posted strait from the dictionary Bunny and a Book
Yet the good ship ploughed straight on, unretarded by wind or wave, towards the straits of Around the World in 80 Days
Sumatra from Java, which he called the strait of Polimban, from a city he erroneously supposed to lie on the Javan shore, and passing through this returned to Malacca by the east; being the first European who sailed round the island of Sumatra. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
She inspired Ann Veronica, but the scandal made relations impossible with the straitlaced Fabian Society, in which Wells had made his most sustained attempt to turn socialist principle into practice. A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review
In 2004-2005, CoML and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded a large-scale study in the Salish Sea region, the large, dilute, estuarial inland sea that includes what is now called Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and other water, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which connects the Georgia-Puget Basin to the Pacific. Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
The Atlantic argentine (Argentina silus) is found from the Arctic waters of Davis Strait south to Labrador, as well as in other areas of the North Atlantic.
He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
A few of the horses after their voyage were in good order, and the most of the others, which were in such low condition from their insufficient allowance of water from Moreton Bay to Torres Strait, now showed, from their having plenty of water since their reshipment at Hardy's Islands, that they were in a thriving state. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
“Sails of silk and ropes of sendal,” and poetic noiseless movements only would suit these lovely Malacca Straits. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Her Kitchen Essays appeared first in the Times, and have what Nicola Humble accurately calls a "slightly distrait charm" (what on earth to do when cook is away?). Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes
So far European economic policy has not been designed to act as a locomotive to take over the lead in the world economy and the Japanese economy is in dire straits.
My faith is the ONLY TRUE faith, that whole “many paths to God” is a lie strait from the pits of Hell. Think Progress » VIDEO: Inhofe ‘Very Proud’ There’s Never Been a Homosexual Relationship in the ‘Recorded History of Our Family’
It was not this so-called straitjacket that is the cause of today's euro crisis. The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown | Will Hutton
In particular, aid to state governments, which are in desperate straits, is both fast — because it prevents spending cuts rather than having to start up new projects — and effective, because it would in fact be spent; plus state and local governments are cutting back on essentials, so the social value of this spending would be high. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman: Centrists Eliminated 600,000 Worth of Jobs From Stimulus Package
The total influx to the marine Arctic from rivers is 0.18 Sv [9], about 2.5 times the “freshwater” flux of the Pacific inflow through Bering Strait. Marine Arctic
Taking the issue to the people, and free from what he termed strait-jacket restrictions, the Governor said at Columbus, when he talked to the Ohio Democratic Convention: The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox
6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
As it was a moonless night visibility on the strait was non-existent, though the pelting rain had eased somewhat. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
There are undoubtedly areas where the government is moving more and more to straitjacket the courts.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Archive 2007-12-01
Obama's straits are similar to those Clinton faced when the term triangulation was coined. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
And so long they went forward till they came within a four mile of London, and there lodged on a hill called Blackheath; and as they went, they said ever they were the kings men and the noble commons of England: 1 and when they of London knew that they were come so near to them, the mayor, as ye have heard before, closed the gates and kept straitly all the passages. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. The Evil Deeds That These Commons of England Did to the King’s Officers, and How They Sent a Knight to Speak with the King
The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island. Smaller pieces of that chunk became lodged between real islands inside Nares Strait.
What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the deep-sea corals thrive better on the other side of the strait?
Not an international strait, but a shipping route, something like the St. Lawrence seaway, which is carefully managed with sufficient infrastructure to ensure that ships can pass safely through to everyone's economic interest and at the same time have security threats dealt with and deterred. Embassy
Attempts to demolish the Turkish forts guarding the Straits by a mixture of naval shellfire and demolition by landing parties during February 1915 failed.
There's also something called the Klamath Straits Drain, along with scores of channelized creeks, uncountable dikes, and an aqueduct called the Lost River Diversion Channel.
Auntie became excessively pale, and was sometimes quite "distrait" and bewildered-looking, which was little wonder, considering all she had to do and arrange. The Laurel Bush
he found himself in straitened circumstances
It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
Perhaps conincidentally, the ground tace passes through Tsugaru Strait, minimizing the possibility of falling onto any land mass, and avoid the Japanese main island Honshu, had the rocket failed in the middle of its trajectory. Calculating Taepodong-2's range, charting its planned path
We have not insisted on our right, but have rather been in straits to serve the interests of the gospel, and promote the salvation of souls. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The captain was not willing to risk taking his ship through the straits in such bad weather.
Shimonoseki Strait between Kyushu and Honshu was the only outlet from the Inland Sea to the Sea of Japan. Whirlwind
If it passes, the state could one day wind up in worse financial straits as a result.
His administration has reached agreement with Beijing allowing regular direct flights for the first time in 60 years across the narrow straits that divide the bitter foes. Times, Sunday Times
From this you may form some idea of their distress, and the holy violence used in entering the strait gate.
Every morning, a flotilla of day boats leaves port in a race to be first to the prime sites around the Strait of Tiran, to the north, or Ras Mohammed, to the south.
Second, improving cross-Strait ties aside, Beijing still intends to "reunify" Taiwan with the mainland, by force if necessary. AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online
The sloop could carry no more than a three-reefed mainsail and forestaysail; with these she held on stoutly and was not blown out of the strait. Sailing Alone Around the World
Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
Others who will be exempted from conscription are men doing service, and men in straitened family circumstances, on the basis of a report by the local administration and on application to the Defence Minister.
The integrity of international sport is in dire straits. Times, Sunday Times
Then there are those who will tell you that the winter storms sucking through the Magellan Straits are the most deadly.
It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops. David Harris: Why History Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Incensed with rage, he commands that his wife should be carried to strait prison until they heard further of his pleasure.
New investments in antimine ships and other naval technologies appear designed to help the U.S. counter any moves by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, the choke point through which nearly 20% of the world's traded oil passes. Panetta Outlines Pentagon Cutbacks
Martin Kaymer Takes Home The Wanamaker Trophy; In a three-hole playoff, the German golfer beat Bubba Watson to win the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
Otherwis known as a straitjacket, she added to herself. Baby In My Arms
She was grown more notorious than a way-mark,285 for her seductive genius, and outdid the fair both in theory and practice, and she was noted for her swimming gait, flexile and delicate, albeit she was full five feet in height and by all the boons of fortune deckt and dight, with strait arched brows twain, as they were the crescent moon of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But the neighborhood had now fallen into straitened circumstances.
Prudence is located at the bottommost tip of the heart -- its Tierra del Fuego/Strait of Magellan. Suzanne O'Malley: Day 14 of 29: Secrets to the Map of a Women's Heart
U. S. Fifth Fleet said on the 20th, a submarine and an amphibious landing ship earlier in the day in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz collision.
The Roman naval commanders of AD43 would have had a massive incentive to reduce these uncertainties by using the short crossing of the Dover Strait.
The house Anna had designated from the first as `theirs "belonged to an Italian Count whose circumstances had been straitened by the war. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Brody was locked in a padded cell and forced to wear a straitjacket.
But the Holland star is not listening as he again made it look like he was wearing a straitjacket with a poor display. The Sun
Angie didn't give him time to reply as she stood up, wiping away her tears and straitening her shirt.
The bullets sang softly in their strait prison of steel and brass.
A striking feature of the songs is that unlike much contemporary Indigenous song writing, the fettling gangs of Torres Strait Islanders in the sixties, seventies and eighties did not write predominately about home. Eastern Torres Strait Islander Songs
Remember before the Microsoft era, back when the archetype of the computer engineer was not that of a laid-back, semi-cool, scruffy geek but that of a strait-laced, uptight, button-down IBM company man with a company haircut? Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
For KP it must have felt a bit like going somewhere really strait-laced on your gap year and entirely reinventing yourself, perhaps as a flamboyant transsexual New York garage DJ-type figure, only to turn round one day and find half the people from your A-level year standing in the corner looking faintly amused. Colonial promiscuity in danger of diluting test cricket's pleasures | Barney Ronay
The father was in something of a strait between the Christian dignification of marriage and its ascetic depreciation. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
She sat high, straitening her despairing posture.

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