Utiliser "straits" dans une phrase

1. She had never been in more dire straits, so naturally she was quite afraid

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2. I admit that everything else you want to keep here is nothing but dead weight in the straits we find ourselves

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3. “I think that we should head up the straits of Malacca before heading south clear of Christmas Island’s radar, and then come into Australia from the north

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4. “Trying to hide from the military radar until we’re out of the straits of Malacca

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5. It was still airborne when it disappeared from Malaysian military radar in the Straits of Malacca

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6. army was in dire straits and that his capability in battle was

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7. While the Wyoming was cruising thorough the straits of Shimonoseki, the Japanese land and naval guns

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8. Jones were cruising in the Bering Straits and steering north while the Shenandoah was in the vicinity

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9. In Spain the people knew little of the straits of their forces, and celebrated their “impending victory” by fiesta and bullfight

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10. Garcia with two thousand men was holding the extreme right, cutting off the San Luis valley and the five thousand men garrisoned there within sixteen miles of the beleaguered city but kept in ignorance of Toral's straits by the vigilance of the insurgents holding the intervening valley

11. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear

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12. The woman, Herminia Cisneros, was in dire straits with three children, no income, no place to call home and living off Truman’s generous charity

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13. the past in straits of paint

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14. in dire straits, our country should not jeopardize thousands of manufacturing jobs

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15. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits, every hand of the wicked shall come on him

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16. out by bands to the straits of the mountain

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17. 4 But when Adam saw the straits in which Eve was, he arose and prayed to God, and said, "O Lord, look on me with the eye of Your mercy, and bring her out of her distress

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18. You shall weary yourself, and rest not; you shall be afflicted by bitterness, and shall not taste of sweetness; you shall be afflicted by heat, and oppressed by cold; and you shall toil much, and not grow rich; and you shall make haste, and not attain your end; and the wild beasts, of which you were Lord, shall rise up against you in rebellion, because you have not kept my commandment; And having turned to me, the Lord says to me, Since you have obeyed the serpent, and disobeyed my commandment, you shall be in distresses and unbearable pains; you shall bring out children with great tremblings; and in one hour shall you come to bring them out, and lose your life in consequence of your great straits and pangs; And you shall confess, and say, Lord, Lord, save me; and I shall not return to the sin of the flesh; And on this account in your own words I shall judge you, on account of the enmity which the enemy has put in you; and you shall turn again to your husband, and he shall be your Lord

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19. As the national unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent, and federal, state, and municipal finances continue to be in dire straits, our country should not jeopardize thousands of manufacturing jobs

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20. I knew that EI was in dire financial straits because of the future losses from the Tacoma and Helena fiascos

21. As to the latter, counselors and members had told me and others in dire straits repeatedly, “Suicide is a permanent solution to what are only temporary problems

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22. 4 But when Adam saw the straits in which Eve was he arose and prayed to God and said "O Lord look on me with the eye of Your mercy and bring her out of her distress

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23. straits because she doesn't have a condo in Florida or an airplane to

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24. carried out in dire straits or under the Hunting and Game Protection Act or the

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25. You shall weary yourself and rest not; you shall be afflicted by bitterness and shall not taste of sweetness; you shall be afflicted by heat and oppressed by cold; and you shall toil much and not grow rich; and you shall make haste and not attain your end; and the wild beasts of which you were Lord shall rise up against you in rebellion because you have not kept my commandment; And having turned to me the Lord says to me Since you have obeyed the serpent and disobeyed my commandment you shall be in distresses and unbearable pains; you shall bring out children with great tremblings; and in one hour shall you come to bring them out and lose your life in consequence of your great straits and pangs; And you shall confess and say Lord Lord save me; and I shall not return to the sin of the flesh; And on this account in your own words I shall judge you on account of the enmity which the enemy has put in you; and you shall turn again to your husband and he shall be your Lord

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26. happiness, you would have to start out in very dire straits, to say the

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27. 11 And as soon as the morning arose they hanged the head of Holofernes on the wall and every man took his weapons and they went out by bands to the straits of the mountain

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28. Captain George Lawrence, commander of the Cheboygan-based Mackinaw, said that when the cutter cut the South Channel ice in the Straits of Mackinac in early March 2006 the ice was only eight inches thick, compared to the five-mile-wide, 16-inch-thick ice field which formed by the Mackinac Bridge (Adams, “Cutter Mackinaw…,” 2006)

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29. “With the family in desperate financial straits, the state of California granted Bob a full-boat ride to Stanford for his undergraduate studies

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30. both stayed on the Number One Spot on the Straits Times Best

31. She had been ruthlessly and unjustly cast aside by her husband and in dire straits had consented to live with a certain Greek as his wife, but without marriage

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32. I worried that maybe his luck had expired and he was in dire straits

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33. The Ethiopian wolf is in dire straits

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34. dire straits and with no other alternative but to forcefully

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35. Believe me, Rebecca was in dire straits

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36. Judging from the tone of her voice she was in dire straits

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37. in dire straits

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38. dire straits; two of my beloved friends have left me

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39. I was in dire straits

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40. I was, for the moment, in dire straits

41. He was in such dire straits

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42. were in dire straits

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43. Who knows, maybe you’ll be in dire straits and then all of

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44. Hercules known today as the Straits of Gibraltar

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45. But if he is in straits, the lender mayrefuse to accept the mortgage as security, and demand a bill ofsale of it, which contains a clause providing that the originalowner may buy it back within a certain time (not over four years,unless more are stipulated in the deed, and never more than ten)

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46. Iranian government before they died aboard the tragic flight 655 over the waters of the Straits of

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47. Eventually he proposed a month long trip, sailing from the mouth of the Ruvuma across the straits to Madagascar

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48. On 24th May 1941, at the Battle of the Denmark Straits, the Royal Navy ships HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales engaged the German ships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen

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49. Aboard the Hood, Vice-Admiral Holland received orders that together with the Prince of Wales and screening destroyers they were to sail towards the Denmark Straits

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50. The foggy weather provided an observation shield for the German warships as they entered the Denmark Straits

51. With her fighting capacity drastically reduced she was soon in dire straits and now became the target for the concentrated fire of both enemy ships

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52. To the complete amazement of his navy commanders, he ordered the ships to be brought through the Dover Straits in broad daylight

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53. However, Hitler’s proposal deserves closer examination; initially it must have appeared tempting for the Germans to sail through the Straits of Dover at night under the cover of darkness

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54. From this viewpoint, it was considered more favourable to go through the Straits in daylight aided by the protective cover of the Luftwaffe

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55. This would allow them to approach the narrowest part of the Channel, that is, the Straits of Dover, which is only twenty one miles wide, during darkness

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56. In any case, Sir Dudley refused to even contemplate that the Germans would be foolhardy enough to try and bring their ships through the Dover Straits in daylight

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57. The German ships racing up the Channel were almost into the Dover Straits, the twenty mile wide maximum danger zone; at this point they would be clearly visible by telescope to observers on the cliffs of Dover

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58. This was after the German ships were through the straits and almost out of range

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59. The first battle of the straits had been lost

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60. Japanese infiltrators, many disguised as civilians, crossed the Straits in inflatable boats and reported back intelligence information

61. To cross the Straits of Messina,

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62. off the coast going towards the Straits, fishermen off the sandbanks anchored for the day and a

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63. They kept news of Niles’ financial straits private, to avoid embarrassment from their peers

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64. Many of you who are in this backslidden state are now under a very heavy yoke of bondage and fear due to the desperate straits you now find yourself in

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65. Their personal accounts have by some means been emptied, and they are now in dire straits financially

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66. and economic quandaries have their ignition point in the Straits of Hormuz and

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67. Fish the coast down the straits

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68. He asked about her grandparents in the Torres Straits and talked about his family in Canberra

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69. David asked what people ate in the Torres Straits and she asked how he knew so much about bush food

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70. manager saw the dire straits of the man laid out on the floor and saw

71. straits obviously feels it, because he’s constantly worried about

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72. They were already in desperate straits; now how would they survive?

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73. In a November 2005 issue of the “The Straits Times”, a leading

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74. I had trouble envisioning the physical relationship between the worlds and exactly how straits and openings connected them

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75. Some straits could connect to just one location, and some could connect to more than one, but they were never just a straight shot between the same spot in both worlds

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76. Coming to terms with dire straits Indra called on Yama: “Fire the artillery now!”

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77. It is no longer a monument to opulence and grandeur, but depicts perfectly the dire straits that modern-day Greece is in

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78. The shortest distance between America and Asia is at the Bering Straits; there is only 53mi

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79. In the Magellan Straits, on the Magellan Islands… these seafarers found a strange tribe of natives; living stark naked on these barren rock-covered islands…where no grass or trees could grow because the wind stripped all the islands of any soil ages ago

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80. Material must be getting painfully scarce when reduced to such straits for support