Many involved smaller boats, such as tugs, barges and fishing boats, in the Malacca Straits and Indonesian waters. |
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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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The IMB reported that between January and March this year, the Malacca Straits have seen seven piracy attacks. |
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Optional add-ons include horse-riding, canyoning, and whale-watching in the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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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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Making it worse is the fact that whenever the band forgets itself and goes into Dire Straits mode, his voice starts edging towards reediness. |
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It was headed north toward the Korean Straits between Kyushu and the Korean peninsula. |
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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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My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits. |
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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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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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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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Three Saudis and 7 Moroccans were accused of forming a sleeper cell and planning terrorist attacks against ships entering the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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The party had been arranged in honour of Tim Hayter, a New Zealand specialist diver who had been working on salvage operations in the Straits of Jeddah. |
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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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The Korean Straits is a major fishing ground for the Japanese. |
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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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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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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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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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In January 7, 2008, five Iranian speedboats darted around three U.S. warships in the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. |
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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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They could agree to procedures in the Straits of Hormuz to prevent incidents from escalating. |
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Yes, the campaign would be more interesting if American warships were getting shelled in the Straits of Hormuz. |
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Much of the state of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida. |
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South Bay is separated from the Straits of Florida by the northernmost of the Florida Keys, and includes Card Sound and Barnes Sound. |
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He then left for the Red Sea for negotiations, and in 1615 sailed to the Straits of Malacca. |
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This key clause was later judicially interpreted to have introduced English law into the Straits Settlements. |
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The island thus lost power to legislate for the Straits Settlements, which power was assumed by the Governor General of Bengal. |
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Upon the downgrading of the Straits Settlements, the offices of Governor and Resident Councillors were abolished. |
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In September 1831 merchants of the Straits Settlements appealed to the British Parliament. |
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The Straits Settlements now had two Recorders, one for Prince of Wales' Island, the other for Singapore and Malacca. |
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Also in 1878, a provision later known as section 5 of the Civil Law Act was introduced into Straits Settlements law. |
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The High Court and Court of Appeal of the Straits Settlements became the Colony of Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal. |
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Some former East India Company territories, such as the Straits Settlements, became colonies in their own right. |
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Straits are an indivisible and unseperable territory of Turkey like Erzurum, Ankara, Izmir etc. |
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Floating hatchery and net cage culture of Penaeus indicus in the Straits of Johore, Singapore. |
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Peninsular Malaysia is a long stretch of land extending southwards from Thailand to the Straits of Johore, which separate it from Singapore. |
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Jelinek and Demers claim that certain relative clause and other phenomena suggest that Straits Salish is a pronominal argument language. |
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A separate Legislative Council with the authority to make laws was set up for the Straits Settlements. |
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In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. |
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It was able to make the journey across the Straits of Dover in around three hours. |
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By this definition, the Danish Straits are part of the entrance, but the Bay of Mecklenburg and the Bay of Kiel are parts of the Baltic Sea. |
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During the 18th century, the British and the Dutch controlled opposite sides of the Straits of Malacca. |
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The British and the Dutch drew a line separating the Straits into two halves. |
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Eventually this line became the border between Malaysia and Indonesia in the Straits. |
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Luxury ingredients were brought by the fleet from the far reaches of empire, from the Parthian frontier to the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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Abundant natural resources in and around the Menai Straits enabled human habitation in prehistoric Britain. |
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Williams briefly worked with Meat Loaf, before receiving an offer from Dire Straits, who he was still working with, when Man reformed. |
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This community comprises three pods which live mostly in the Georgia and Haro Straits and Puget Sound in British Columbia and Washington. |
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By evening, the battleship rolled over and sank to the bottom of the Tsushima Straits. |
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The English Channel, here at its narrowest point in the Straits of Dover, is the busiest shipping lane in the world. |
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It borders the River Thames and the North Sea to the north, and the Straits of Dover and the English Channel to the south. |
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In summer 1759, the French Toulon fleet under Admiral La Clue slipped through the blockade and sailed out through the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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He headed at first for the Straits of Gibraltar, intending to carry out Villeneuve's original orders and make for Toulon. |
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It is through the most active of these connective routes, the Turkish Straits, that the Black Sea joins the world ocean. |
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The Turkish Straits connect the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea, and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. |
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The 1982 amendments to the Montreux Convention allow Turkey to close the Straits at its discretion in both wartime and peacetime. |
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He followed the coastal land mass of Central America before returning to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Florida between Florida and Cuba. |
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On reaching the Straits of Gibraltar, Mainwaring announced to his crew his intention of fighting the Spanish anywhere he found them. |
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Trade was now scattered over a number of ports among bitter warfare in the Straits. |
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It formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Singapore and Penang. |
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The city lies on the Arabian Sea along the Gulf of Oman and is in the proximity of the strategic Straits of Hormuz. |
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The Straits Chinese business people were favored as compradors by European merchants and enjoyed advantages under colonial rule. |
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The Straits Chinese or Peranakan were trusted by the British administration when Singapore was a crown colony. |
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Darwin collected the Ovenbird, in 1834, as the Beagle explored Wolsey Sound in the Straits of Magellan, at the southern tip of South America. |
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Yet in 1915, scientists reported a spiny dogfish shark from the Straits of Georgia sporting a thyroid tumor. |
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Air Mauritius and New Straits Times e-Media have launched a competition enabling participants to win an iKoMo handphone. |
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A similar agreement with the French Government covers the ETV in the Dover Straits. |
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The Straits Times index has lagged the go go Southeast Asian markets in Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Hanoi even before last week's Wagnerian sturm und drang. |
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Newspapers such as New Straits Times and Berita Harian used to be published in broadsheet, but were published in smaller size instead, from 2005 and 2008, respectively. |
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A fair amount of it washes out through the Straits of Florida in the Gulf Stream and ends up in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States. |
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Mention of these places in a journal of the voyage indicates that Pytheas passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and sailed north along the coast of Portugal. |
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In 1988 he played with Dire Straits and Elton John at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium and the Prince's Trust rock gala at the Royal Albert Hall. |
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To head that off Britain sought to keep the Russians from occupying Constantinople and taking over the Bosporous Straits, as well as from threatening India via Afghanistan. |
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Boyes' disgrace came two years after he won the VC while leading a ground assault against the Daimyos during an attack on Japanese war lords in the Straits of Simono Seki. |
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At least two glaucous gulls continue to inhabit the Menai Straits, but five avocets that spent a weekend at RSPB Conwy moved on, despite mating and prospecting for nests. |
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In 1967 the Straits of Tiran were again closed by Egypt and international peacekeepers placed after the 1956 war in the Sinai were ejected by Egypt. |
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On 13 July 1841, after the expiry of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, the London Straits Convention was signed under pressure from European countries. |
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A secret additional clause allowed the Ottomans to opt out of sending troops but to close the Straits to foreign warships if Russia was under threat. |
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The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish Straits. |
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In August 2016, The Straits Times reported that Indonesia had decided to create tax havens on two islands near Singapore to bring Indonesian capital back into the tax base. |
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There is a marked passage in spring through the Straits of Dover. |
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The first exception to this was the 2004 PGA Championship, which was played on a true links course, Whistling Straits, located near Kohler, Wisconsin. |
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The Battle of Britain started on July 10 with the Luftwaffe trying to gain control of the Straits of Dover to leave the way clear for a seaborn landing. |
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During the month of May, yellowfin tuna begin passing through the Florida Straits and Bahamas islands on their migration north to fertile, bait-rich waters. |
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Chung Khin Chun, 87, has applied to have a decision to give power of attorney to Chinese national Yang Yin revoked, she told the Straits Times newspaper. |
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At last we hove in sight of the Pacific, and run afoul one of those villainous head winds which you know often set into the west end of the Straits. |
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He issued four such regulations applicable to the Straits Settlements. |
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The centralised port of exchange of Asian wealth had now gone, as was a Malay state to police the Straits of Malacca that made it safe for commercial traffic. |
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