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Have you ever gone through the Straits of Magellan?
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Student Balduin, in order to ease the dire straits of the student body, has donated permanent support for 100 students.
Is the Baron really in financial straits?
We'll pick up the breadfruit then continue on through the Endeavour Straits around the Cape of Good Hope to Jamaica.
Mr Bligh and bloody mighty. How do you fancy the Endeavour Straits?
Well, gentlemen, between ourselves and home are 27,000 sea miles, the Endeavour Straits and the Great Barrier Reef.
Went around those straits.
One of our submarines contacted the Imperial Japanese fleet in Luzon Straits.
Make ready a boat to take me ashore, and then drop anchor. there in the narrow straits between the rocks.
Tell me, sir, where are the Straits of Mozambique?
I happen to know you're delivering your nightly financial folderol because you're in desperate straits.
And I can bring the fleet through the straits above Thermopylae, protecting your flank.
We have 271 ships lying in the straits.
Take your ships out of the straits at once.
Failing to find employment and with little to do, he finds himself in dire straits and believes he can endure it no further.
But the Great Depression had taken its toll on Universal, as well as most of the other studios, and they were in dire straits.
Here are some straits.
I looked across the straits to North Africa. I looked down again at the docks of Gibraltar.
I'm in financial straits at the moment, and I thought of selling these diamond earrings.
The Formosa Straits is no river.
They were in financial straits already with no ready money, like everybody here.
They have to go through the straits.
If we hadn't come here, they wouldn't be in such straits.
Pranab, I'm in dire straits.
I'd counted on reaching the southern straits of Tomoga Island within 10 hours.
Krakatoa, the Sundra Straits.
But in reality you're in desperate straits, you're a derelict and you can't lift a finger to rise above your despair.
How could I leave two dear friends in such dire straits?
I did not ask to be, if not was in dire straits.
At a celebration to decorate those three brave young men who led us to safety through the perilous straits of Madagon.
And still other journeys ventured through the Straits of Malacca to the Empire of China.
But a year later, he's in dire straits again.
And the day the entire NATO submarine fleet passes through the Straits of Gibraltar.
News and current affairs
But the state itself is in dire financial straits; one of the cities' problems is the sharp curtailment of state funds to localities.
So it is little wonder that it is in these places that most illegal immigration and human trafficking occurs - pirates in the Straits of Malacca, fast boats between Albania and Italy, and desperate human cargoes from Africa and Latin America.
Moreover, closing the straits would amount to a self-imposed blockade that would hit Iran's own domestic energy needs hard, owing to its lack of refining capacity.
Only democracy in China can bring lasting peace to the Taiwan Straits.
But Japan remains concerned about China's rapidly modernizing military, while China worries about a potential US-Japan containment strategy for China, especially in the case of a crisis in the Taiwan Straits.
Chinese leaders blame Taiwanese leaders for cross-straits tensions, and blame the Dalai Lama for all that ails Tibet.
Northeast Asia contains the last remnants of the Cold War: the divided Korean Peninsula and hostile glares across the Taiwan Straits.
As grandiose as that claim may seem, the fact is that crossing the straits to Cuba signals a new, more open, and far more productive approach to relations with all of Latin America.
Haiti was in dire straits even before the earthquake struck.
WASHINGTON, DC - Ukraine's economy may no longer be in free fall, but it remains in dire straits.
They are a threat to all, especially in times of high capital mobility, when governments rely too much on foreign lenders' apparent willingness to provide funds and find themselves in dire straits when capital inflows stop.
In most cases, a country is already in desperate fiscal straits by the time IMF economists arrive on the scene to discuss a loan.
Ford and General Motors are in dire financial straits.
Predictably, the global financial crisis and abrupt reversal in capital flows in 2008 left the Latvian economy in dire straits.
The repercussions of bombing Iran should be clear: closure of the Straits of Hormuz, skyrocketing oil prices, possible retaliation against Israel (regardless of the origin of the attack), and even greater turmoil in Iraq and Afghanistan.