If it's true a team follows its leader, the tourists are in worse straits than the score suggests. |
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Some 500,000 vessels a year pass through the treacherous, narrow Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. |
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Turkey eventually rejected the terms of that treaty, and subsequently Turkey remilitarized the straits area. |
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Schools in this country, in the government system now are in dire straits in many cases. |
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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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Lytham is dead posh, with lovely seaside cottages and a wide grassy prom facing the Southport straits. |
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Anyone in dire straits because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help. |
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Even with unwavering support from communities, most clubs are in dire straits. |
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Folk were in dire straits and because it was my home territory, I understood. |
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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 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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People are very reluctant to accept pay cuts, even when the company is in pretty dire straits. |
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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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Many find themselves in desperate straits as the price they get for their products continues to slump. |
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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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Mayor Street defends the cuts as an unpleasant necessity due to the city's financial straits. |
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International straits are part of the high seas where freedom of navigation is guaranteed to all. |
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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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Seeing local hospitals in dire straits, she convinced British drug manufacturers to donate medicine, which she later took to Russia. |
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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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There are sixty-one natural harbours, several landlocked straits, and hundreds of rivers, bays, and lakes. |
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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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He added that City had been in dire straits several times before and had always managed to scrape their way clear. |
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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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American Express Platinum is superb in these dire straits and their concierge service is the gold standard. |
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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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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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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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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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His father was near senility, his mother was overbearing, and the household was in financial straits. |
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Perhaps that is why others in similar straits will have none of it. |
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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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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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Now we know that everyone was in desperate straits down there. |
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In the 1840s, St Peter's School was in dire straits and about to close. |
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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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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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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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Farmers are in dire straits and not far behind them are the road hauliers. |
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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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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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The Berbers marched south in three columns, simultaneously attacking Toledo, Cordoba, and the ports on the Gibraltar straits. |
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Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock. |
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Severe winters can lead to ice formation around southern Sweden and even in the Danish straits. |
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I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit. |
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Keats endured great conflict knowing his expectations as a struggling poet in increasingly hard straits would preclude marriage to Brawne. |
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He mentions little about his childhood or his financial straits and is seemingly embarrassed to discuss them. |
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Though the straits were never completely closed, there may have been islands in between which could be reached using simple rafts. |
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Liechtenstein was in dire financial straits following the end of the war in Europe. |
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A combination of this largesse and government intervention eventually put Louis in severe financial straits. |
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Historically, the commercial fishery was accomplished on horseback on both sides of the Dover straits. |
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Oceans are fringed by smaller, adjoining bodies of water such as seas, gulfs, bays, bights, and straits. |
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After the industrialization, the traffic has only increased and today Skagerrak is among the busiest straits in the world. |
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However, drifting chunks of ice, especially in springtime, remain problematic as they can clog straits or severely damage a ship's hull. |
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The ship's shallow draft was intended to help her traverse the shoals of the Arctic straits. |
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In places, a pipeline may have to cross water expanses, such as small seas, straits and rivers. |
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Land constrictions such as straits or inlets can create high velocities at specific sites, which can be captured with the use of turbines. |
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Stronsay and Linga Holm are to the south east and Muckle Green Holm to the south west beyond the straits known as the Fall of Warness. |
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The small British enclave of the city of Gibraltar presents a third cultural group found in the straits. |
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The Black Sea drains into the Mediterranean Sea, via the Aegean Sea and various straits, and is navigable to the Atlantic Ocean. |
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The Black Sea is connected to the World Ocean by a chain of two shallow straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. |
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Before European colonization, Beringia was inhabited by the Yupik peoples on both sides of the straits. |
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While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight. |
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Nevertheless, by that time the Empire stretched from the straits of Messina to the Euphrates and from the Danube to Syria. |
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Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale. |
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His Berber ally Jafar ibn Hamdun crossed the straits with his army, whereas Ghalib allied with the Kingdom of Navarre. |
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During the last 100,000 years eustatic sea level fluctuations have led to alternate opening and closing of the straits. |
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The battle was fought near Athens, Greece, in the straits between Piraeus and Salamis. |
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The vessels which travel the straits are required to pay beaconage, salvage and health fees. |
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The firm is in dire straits due to stagnating sales and the reorientation of the filling stations market. |
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The other, scholastic encyclopedism, was not yet in such dire straits. |
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Chen in late 2013 who took the gearstick at Blackberry when the company was in dire straits has spent the past year stabilizing the smartphone industry pioneer. |
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A third-rate travelling show in financial dire straits, their manager is pinning all his hopes on Rosie, a new and seemingly untrainable elephant. |
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It is presumed that at this time, the oceans were much lower and the straits were much shallower or dry, allowing a series of emigrations along the southern coast of Asia. |
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To counter the threat, the Umayyads crossed the straits to take over Ceuta in 931, and actively formed alliances with Berber confederacies such as the Zanata and the Awraba. |
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However, Ibn Qatan's sons defeated the army of Toledo, the governor's forces defeated the attack on Cordoba, and Balj defeated the attack on the straits. |
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Though the straits were never completely closed, they were narrow enough and there may have been islands in between to have enabled crossing using simple rafts. |
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The Coast Guard consists of four area commands, as the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and adjacent straits, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Ferry service for bicycles and passengers continues across the straits for transport to Mackinac Island, where motorized vehicles are almost completely prohibited. |
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Like NunatuKavut, the straits is also known for its Labrador sea grass and the multitude of icebergs that pass by the coast via the Labrador Current. |
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Frequent ferry services cross the straits between nearby islands, especially in the chain of islands stretching from Sumatra through Java to the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
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Indonesia shares maritime borders across narrow straits with Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Palau to the north, and with Australia to the south. |
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In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively. |
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Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean. |
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