How To Use Straits In A Sentence
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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
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The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
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The country's rail capacity is squeezing into the narrowest straits in its history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits.
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The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
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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
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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
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When you were in dire straits she was superb.
The Glasgow Girls
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‘People pass other climbers who are clearly in dire straits,’ says Tom Sjogren.
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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
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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
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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
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As we chugged across the Bosphorus we passed a school of ferries criss-crossing the straits in their livery of yellow and white.
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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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
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Denmarkcontrols Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen
Geography-note
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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
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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.
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I am in dire financial straits, though not through overspending.
The Sun
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The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
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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)
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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
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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
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You may have a theoretical moral duty to help those who are in considerably worse straits than yourself.
Christianity Today
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He has spent the past two years using digital technology to bring together people in desperate straits, getting things done while others were pontificating.
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This week from San Francisco's world famous landmark, at the mouth of the Golden Gate straits.
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Optional add-ons include horse-riding, canyoning, and whale-watching in the Straits of Gibraltar.
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The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
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Other scholars heard that he was unwell and sent him notes made remote by their instinct that his straits must mortify him.
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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.
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We had to steer our ship through the swift currents of the Bering Straits.
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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.
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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)
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The organisation, founded two months ago, not only tries to help victims in dire straits, but also helps to arrange funerals for those killed.
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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)
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Yet the good ship ploughed straight on, unretarded by wind or wave, towards the straits of
Around the World in 80 Days
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“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
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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.
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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
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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
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Obama's straits are similar to those Clinton faced when the term triangulation was coined.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Attempts to demolish the Turkish forts guarding the Straits by a mixture of naval shellfire and demolition by landing parties during February 1915 failed.
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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.
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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)
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The captain was not willing to risk taking his ship through the straits in such bad weather.
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If it passes, the state could one day wind up in worse financial straits as a result.
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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
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there are those who will tell you that the winter storms sucking through the Magellan Straits are the most deadly.
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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
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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.
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It turned out those two bodies of water weren't really the North Sea and the Baltic, as the German travel magazine had promised — they were the "Skagerrak" and "Kattegat," two subordinate straits.
Pilgrimage to the Tip of Denmark
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Gathering supporters as he went, he chivvied the Neapolitan army out of Sicily and crossed the Straits of Messina on 22 August with the help of the Royal Navy.
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Lytham is dead posh, with lovely seaside cottages and a wide grassy prom facing the Southport straits.
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He received two Bronze Stars for his valor during the Battles of Surigao Straits and Lingayen Gulf.
Dr. David G. Marwell: HuffPost Review: Inglourious Basterds
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When a euro member gets into financial straits there is no mechanism for a backstop that can bail out the troubled member, like the American federal government can do for any of its 50 states (though when California requested assistance from the Obama administration, the White House said "nein," causing California to issue its IOUs).
The Silver Lining of the Greek Debt Crisis
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If it's true a team follows its leader, the tourists are in worse straits than the score suggests.
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Despite the men's statements, officials from the Mainland Affairs Council and the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation insists that all seven businessmen accused of spying are innocent.
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During the depositional period of this sequence, there were three paleocontinents, two straits and a bathyal slope in the southeast part of the Tarim basin.
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Application of this model to the Maritimes Basin implies that this Westphalian epicontinental sea was connected to the Tethys Ocean by similarly narrow straits.
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In 1712, Fort Michilimackinac - a palisade of pointed logs and blockhouses surrounding log buildings - was built by the French on the southern side of the straits as a fortified trading post.
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Over 50,000 commercial vessels ply the straits each year.
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Returning from the conquest of the East, Aurelian had already crossed the Straits which divided Europe from Asia, when he was provoked by the intelligence that the Palmyrenians had massacred the governor and garrison which he had left among them, and again erected the standard of revolt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Green chromide, an aquarium fish, is a native of India and Sri Lanka, and is found in the mangrove-lined estuaries along the Johor Straits.
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Geographynote: controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen
Denmark
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I crossed the Straits in good order, but came to grief in Eastern Siberia -- all because of Tamerlane is the excuse I have grown accustomed to making.
CHAPTER 12
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Even with unwavering support from communities, most clubs are in dire straits.
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“O my lord, my lamentation is for thee, because thou art in sore straits, for all thy fair fortune and goodliness and exceeding comeliness, seeing thou hast naught wherewithal to do and receive delight, like unto other men.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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That's not to say that companies in financial straits always hire externally.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, he is the Government, although the Datu Klana's signature or seal is required to confirm a sentence of capital punishment, and possibly in one or two other cases; and his Residential authority is subject only to the limitations of his own honor and good sense, sharpened somewhat, were he other than what he is, by possible snubs from the Governor of the Straits Settlements or the Colonial Secretary.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
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Bosse is a boy in bad straits, his mother is gone, his father disappeared, and he is left living with a pair of mean-spirited relatives who berate him at every turn.
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When Japan was in equally desperate straits in 1944, using the word kamikaze for the suicide pilots was not for nothing.
Japan's Shattered Mirror
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It also joined Malaysia in opposing an American plan to tighten security in the vital Malacca Straits shipping lanes, which might have meant stationing US troops nearby.
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The cuts have been imposed by central Government because the economy is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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In another very close team event Wallasey just beat the Menai Straits one design club by a quarter point.
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They were expelled, and replaced by an Athenian citizen colony, strategically placed to hold the straits of Artemision.
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If the U.S. pushes too hard, Japan can threaten to repatriate the assets, leaving the U.S. economy in dire straits.
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In the straits, white sails caught the westerly wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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How dare he enjoy himself with England in such dire straits!
Times, Sunday Times
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In the 1840s, St Peter's School was in dire straits and about to close.
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Virtually all ships from the Middle East carrying oil, liquefied petroleum gas or liquefied natural gas destined for Asia pass through the straits, according to Jane's Intelligence Review.
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cook called the delusive point Cape Flattery and added: "It is in this very latitude (48 degrees 15 minutes) that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca; but we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least possibility that any such thing ever existed.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
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Azuma-zi had come, clad in white but insufficient raiment, out of the stoke-hole of the _Lord Clive_, from the Straits Settlements and beyond, into London.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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We sailed at four, with a strong favorable breeze, and the sea was really delightful as we passed among green islets clothed down to the water's edge with dense tropical vegetation, right out into the open water of the Straits of Malacca, a burning, waveless sea, into which the sun was descending in mingled flame and blood.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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The industry in America is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you cannot buy chinese inexpensive and good-qualitied products,just wait to be dragged into taiwan straits war.
China Singles Out CNN Commentator - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart
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The IMB reported that between January and March this year, the Malacca Straits have seen seven piracy attacks.
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The aluminium magnate won the governorship of the autonomous region, just across the Bering Straits from Alaska, in 2000.
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It is in full view of most of the town of Dover, and has uninterrupted views of shipping in the Straits of Dover.
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The commission argues that the fishery must be restricted since cod, in desperately dire straits, is caught as a so-called by-catch of the prawn fishery.
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McMahon, best known as the avuncular second banana to Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," died at age 86, also in dire financial straits after profligate spending.
Undefined
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When you were in dire straits she was superb.
The Glasgow Girls
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There were meant to be ten but five had to pull out because of financial straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Situated at the exit to the Straits of Malacca between Indonesia and the tip of Malaysia, the country was a natural stopping point on long voyages and quickly blossomed into an important port.
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No wonder we're in financial dire straits when we're so easily led into going along with it and spending money to vote.
The Sun
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Azuma-zi had come, clad in white but insufficient raiment, out of the stokehole of the Lord Clive, from the Straits Settlements, and beyond, into London.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories
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Chersonese he and Anaxibius carried on war against each other by the despatch of guerilla or piratic bands across the straits.
Hellenica
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Seeing local hospitals in dire straits, she convinced British drug manufacturers to donate medicine, which she later took to Russia.
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Currently, both pilot groups are working under concessionary terms negotiated years ago when the industry was in dire straits.
United Feeling Merger Pains
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Zik! and hast fallen into straits unique and hast strayed from the way didst seek, O Miscreant and Zindík, [FN#292] and naught shall avail thee at this present or brother or friend veridigue or familiar freke.
Arabian nights. English
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Though the presence of the Comforter yielded them real and effectual relief in straits and difficulties, yet it was not such a sensible satisfaction as his bodily presence would have been to those who had been used to it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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At Wanlockhead, to the south, the Straitsteps mine remains include a primitive water-powered beam engine for draining the mine.
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But Wisconsin is arguably in the most dire straits.
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The Kanmon Straits (関門海峡 Kanmon Kaikyō) or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands.
Kanmon Kaikyo Ferry Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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But I, like many newer Canadians, do not carry the weight of having placed them in dire straits.
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Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon .
Coastal Disturbances
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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A recent survey of voters aged 21 to 34 by the Straits Times newspaper found that 36% relied on the Internet as their chief source of political news, pipping newspapers with 35%.
A New Wind Blows in the Lion City
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Ulysses brooked not this, nor even in such straits did the Ithacan forget himself.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Bering Straits or the line of the Aleutian Islands was the pathway of successive immigrations, on occasions perhaps far apart, or maybe near together; and there is hardly a stronger demonstration of such a connection between the two continents than the physical resemblances of the peoples now living on the opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean in these upper latitudes, with the similarity of the flora which environs them on either shore.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
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A mariner's diary of 1675 refers to the ducking from the yardarm of men entering the Straits for the first time, or being required to pay one dollar in lieu - and ducking remains an integral part of the modern ceremony in the Royal Navy.
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As a fleet of Communist junks prepared to cross the straits, the KMT was saved from ejection by the Korean War and the interposition of the American Seventh Fleet.
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We have here Belshazzar the king very gay, but all of a sudden very gloomy, and in straits in the fulness of his sufficiency.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The local authorities are in dire straits financially.
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Schools in this country, in the government system now are in dire straits in many cases.
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If you've ever wondered why - when their line's fed several box office boffos (Spider-Man, X-Men, Blades I and II) in the past few years - Marvel Comics can remain in shaky financial straits, Deppey's ‘address’ gives a clue.
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Ibsen was now beginning, rather shyly, very craftily, to invest money; he even found himself in frequent straits for ready coin from his acute impatience to set every rix-dollar breeding.
Henrik Ibsen
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Governor of the Straits Settlements being _ex officio_ the High
Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
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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.
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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
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For before the sternmost ships of the squadron were clear of the Straits, the serenity of the sky was suddenly changed, and gave us all the presages of an impending storm; and immediately the wind shifted to the southward, and blew in such violent squalls that we were obliged to hand our topsails and reef our mainsail.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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The Food Bank provides one-time emergency grocery assistance to those in dire straits, as well as providing one hot meal a week for about a month.
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To the north-west lie the Malacca Straits, five hundred miles of international water, bordered by Malaysia to the north and Indonesia to the south, which are barely policed.
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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In desperate straits, Nancy senses an opportunity to play on the gratitude of the college and so she and Jake travel to England to inveigle themselves into St Maud's.
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The latter was a major concession given the country's dire economic straits and desperate shortage of electricity.
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The death of Vial left his widow in parlous straits.
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They did his bidding and he alighted with his company of handmaids and Mamelukes; and, seeing all the folk of the city in straits and desolation and sore distress, said to the Princess, ‘O love of my heart and coolth of mine eyes, look in what a piteous plight is my sire!’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The former stables, carriage house and workers quarters for this once wealthy Straits Chinese neighborhood now operate as nine chic Chinese-Malay style suites filled with Ong's quirky antique shop finds and groovy retro textiles on the canopied beds.
Cynthia Rosenfeld: Exploring Penang, Malaysia's Colony of Cool
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The Indian granite and natural stone industry is in dire straits.
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Sailors have been killed off Sumatra and attacks on shipping is on the rise in the Malacca and Singapore Straits - two of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the paper said.
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There are sixty-one natural harbours, several landlocked straits, and hundreds of rivers, bays, and lakes.
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There was a pride about her, even though she was in dire straits.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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'You are, as I remember the cricket commentators used to say, in dire straits.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The US success in Indonesia was a more important foreign policy victory, with control of the strategic naval chokepoint the Straits of Malacca at stake, than its subsequent failure in Indochina.
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Wu Poh-hsiung said his visit "will be a chance to review cross-Straits interactions in the past year and exchange ideas frankly and in a friendly way".
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Nobody knows how many more cases will be identified, although Gruer knows they will continue to see people in desperate straits.
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In some parts of Scotland, people would not put a piece of elder wood into the fire, and I have seen, not many years ago, pieces of this wood lying about unused, when the neighbourhood was in great straits for firewood; but none would use it, and when asked why? the answer was -- "We don't know, but folks say it is not lucky to burn the bourtree.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
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Anyone in dire straits because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help.
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As most people are now aware farming has been in dire straits in recent years and the reason that most of them are surviving is due to the grants they receive from the Government.
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They arrived in a fine bay on the 15th, twenty-one leagues from the mouth of the straits, called _Muscle bay_ by the English, because of the great quantities of muscles found there, and here they provided themselves abundantly with fresh water and wood.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
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One of these days, over the Taiwan Straits or Central Asia, we will learn that eternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny.
Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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The factory is in dire straits.
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As the strait shares a border with Malaysia, Malaysian authorities have stepped up patrols and had captured two groups of pirates operating along the straits.
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Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast.
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Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits.
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Thousands of homeless people live on San Francisco's streets, in straits as dire as anything you can imagine in the worst slums of the developing world, amid some of the wealthiest people in the world.
Boing Boing: November 30, 2003 - December 6, 2003 Archives
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For six hours we speed through sensational country, looking out for dolphins in the Straits of Magellan, and rheas, South American ostriches, as we cross the Patagonian steppe.
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She found herself in desperate financial straits.
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If the recent sabre-rattling over the Straits of Hormuz had not been enough, Iran said it intended at Fordo to enrich uranium to the highly sensitive 20% enrichment level, regarded in the industry as the technical threshold for bomb-grade material.
Iran: time for cool heads | Editorial
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An intelligent modern traveller derives "Somali" from the Abyssinian "Soumahe" or heathens, and asserts that it corresponds with the Arabic word Kafir or unbeliever, the name by which Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, knew and described the inhabitants of the Affah (Afar) coast, to the east of the Straits of Bab el Mandeb.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house11, and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of
First footsteps in East Africa
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God in straits and difficulties, that as long as God has any work for them to do their lives shall be prolonged.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Their planned course would take them in through the straits between the Scillies and Land's End, past the Wolf Rock.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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She found herself in desperate financial straits.
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The main beneficiaries of the arrangements were the Hanseatic League cities and their Hanse merchants (which/who controlled the trade), and the Danish crown (which controlled the "tollbooth" at the straits).
RedState
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In these straits, Poe wrote “Berenice,” a story about a man who disinters his dead lover and yanks out all her teeth—“the white and glistening, and ghastly teeth of Berenice”—only to realize that she is still alive.
Edgar All Poe
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The Turkish Straits connect the Black and Aegean Seas and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.
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Straits Times Another 'bossnapping' in France - 27 mins ago
British Blogs
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Looking forward to a few days sailing his yacht, moored off the island of Phuket, Crasnianski set sail into the Straits of Malacca on Christmas Day.
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They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house [11], and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of Bab el Mandeb, they laid the
First Footsteps in East Africa
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One of these days, over the Taiwan Straits or Central Asia, we will learn that eternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny.
Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
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It was a peaceful, beautiful world that met our eyes as the Island Princess stood through the Straits and up the east coast of Sumatra; the air was warm and pleasant, and the leaves of the tufted palms, lacily interwoven, were small in the distance like the fronds of ferns in our own land.
The Mutineers
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Denmark, geographically, sits astride 2 similarly narrow straits – Skagerrak and Kattegat that are important international waterways connecting the Baltic with the North Sea (and the Atlantic).
Matthew Yglesias » Danish Middle East Policy Blogging
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He's in financial dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fierce easterly wind blowing out of the Straits of Gibraltar kept them waiting like a courtier at the king's gate.
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To the north-west lie the Malacca Straits, five hundred miles of international water, bordered by Malaysia to the north and Indonesia to the south, which are barely policed.
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They were expelled, and replaced by an Athenian citizen colony, strategically placed to hold the straits of Artemision.
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As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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It's not wrong to be in difficult straits.
Christianity Today
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There is also at some distance south of Behring's Straits a remarkable chain of islands, called the Aleutian Islands, which extend in a regular and continuous line from the American to the Asiatic shore.
Aboriginal America
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Many involved smaller boats, such as tugs, barges and fishing boats, in the Malacca Straits and Indonesian waters.
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He has said that what is termed as Adam's Bridge or Ramar Sethu in the Palk Straits is a tombolo, a sand deposit.
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We do not believe that the country would really be in dire straits if we extended leave provisions to casual workers, the low-paid, or young people.
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That leaves county schools in dire straits, with many already having to unravel established teaching practices.
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If we and our infants be at any time in straits, let us remember the straits Christ in his infancy was brought into, and be reconciled to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Some editing for puncutation needed, of course, but I’m in desparate straits for humor now, so it didn’t matter.
FIRST DATE • by Dave Macpherson
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In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway’s Santiago battles an 18-foot blue marlin from a skiff in the Florida Straits, where the Gulf Stream begins between Cuba and the Florida Keys.
The Mid-Life Slam
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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
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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Stromboli," he said; "we shall be nearly through the Straits by breakfast-time.
The Devil Doctor
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Turkey eventually rejected the terms of that treaty, and subsequently Turkey remilitarized the straits area.
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Some 500,000 vessels a year pass through the treacherous, narrow Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
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About a third of Michigan lies north of the Straits of Mackinac and is called the Upper Peninsula or U.P. Residents of the U. P are called "Yoopers", a word created by saying "U. P.'ers
Please Don't Call it Trivia #1
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But not all names in - ing are Anglo-Saxon, e.g. Baring is German; cf. Behring, of the Straits; and Jobling is Fr. Jobelin, a double dim. of Job.
The Romance of Names
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Now we know that everyone was in desperate straits down there.
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Israel justified the strikes that initiated the 1967 Six-Day War on the basis that Egypt's blocking of the Straits of Tiran was a prior act of aggression.
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We are compelled to do this when we are in dire straits.
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During the depositional period of this sequence, there were three paleocontinents, two straits and a bathyal slope in the southeast part of the Tarim basin.
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Farmers are in dire straits and not far behind them are the road hauliers.
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In the days that followed he flew many patrols attacking the Japanese planes which were attacking the Johore Straits and Singapore.
THE OTHER COMMONWEALTH PRISONER OF WAR
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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.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Wine industry officials in Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties say that while cabernet is in a rough patch, merlot may be in dire straits due to market vagaries and celluloid influence.
Merlot Market Shrinking | Impact Lab
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Many find themselves in desperate straits as the price they get for their products continues to slump.