Sentence examples for In straits from inspiring English sources

For places in straits like these, the question may not be what we can do for our vacant lots but what our vacant lots can do for us.

Later mass missions concentrated on the Japanese aircraft industry, and on port cities, where extensive mining operations in straits and harbors also paralyzed Japan's shipping.

The 1982 treaty established a new right of transit passage for the purpose of continuous and expeditious transit in straits used for international navigation between one part of the high seas or exclusive economic zone and another.

Indian auto suppliers are not in straits so dire as their peers in America and Europe, where many teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, but any supplier disruption could be devastating to the Nano.

He was not a great man of letters, but he lived the life of one: he was always in straits and always full of gaiety, and one who had never seen his play might readily conclude from his letter that he was a remarkable man.

Mr. Kratzer, who has recently fielded calls and e-mail messages from more than 500 borrowers in straits similar to the Martins', said lenders who were reining in credit should provide an explanation of how they determined that property values associated with the lines had declined sharply.

He returned as an advisor in 1996, "when the firm was in dire straits," in the words of The Economist.

Detroit has found itself in these straits in the past.

We would have been in dire straits in Dallas if we didn't have him".

Beer isn't the only product in dire straits in Venezuela.

"They are in desperate straits in terms of having a meaningful education," Rosenbaum said.