Примери за strait

• To be sure, not everyone in the tory leadership felt that they were in such dire straits.

• Piece by piece the blank areas of the polar chart were filled in: discernible features - capes, bays, and navigable straits - gradually replaced fantastical sea-beasts and magnetic mountains.

• I believe that to be of crucial importance, certainly in cases where operators are in dire financial straits, as many currently are.

• He described institutions in ruin, an economy in dire straits.

• She is in dire straits and unable to make ends meet.

• Is it not true that at the moment it is in dire financial straits, and not making a profit?

• Here, lacking a sense of purpose, desolate and frightened, they seek those in similar straits since the option of family support is no longer there.

• I think it is a great thing that both sides of the straits are following our debate today.

• Meanwhile, engineering is increasingly enabling us to build tunnels under cities, under protected areas of outstanding natural beauty and under sea straits.

• We have reduced the amount of foreign tonnage coming to this country, and, consequently, our straits have become more severe.

• They are admitted to be in bad straits.

• Not even in the direst straits would a firm stop paying the insurance premium on its fire policy.

• Constituencies, like mine are in desperate straits, and the tranquillity of which we have heard will be dispelled so far as we are concerned.

• An illustration of the extraordinary straits to which the labourers are driven is to hand in the action of the boards of-guardians.

• We have not at any rate been reduced to such desperate straits as that in our discussions.