And the area that was most known in the early period probably the 16th or 17th century was the straits of Malacca.
We would still have a port and an airport, and we would still have privileged geographical access to a pivotal maritime point which is the Straits of Gibraltar.
Another of the choke points were the straits of Dover.
On October 21, 1520, he rounded the Cape of the Virgins (Cabo Vírgenes, Argentina) and at approximately 52°50′ S entered the passage that proved to be the strait of his seeking, later to bear his name.
In the annals of mating, are the straits we're in so dire?
But behind that bizarre and embarrassing drama, Poles believe, are the desperate straits of Solidarity's current leader, the ambitious Marian Krzaklewski, whose own candidacy for the presidency is floundering badly.
And so it was that kind of behavior that was really not appropriate, and maybe I just, you know, I was in the straits of an Army family, Catholic — and then all of the sudden I'm sort of free to do what I want to do.
Gary is navigating the straits of depression while trying to secure a happy family life; Chip is squaring his university tenure with his attraction to young girls and the inevitable consequences; and Denise is balancing her success as a chef with her undiscriminating sexual tastes and her mother's wish for her to settle down and marry.
Others argue that China wants to send a signal to America that a future war would be costly, and would not be limited to the Straits of Taiwan.The Pentagon is probably better able to protect itself against cyberattacks than most.
Scenic Mackinac Island and several others are located near the Straits of Mackinac in the northwest part of the lake, and Saginaw Bay indents the Michigan coast.
The Aegean is connected through the straits of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus to the Black Sea, while the island of Crete can be taken as marking its boundary on the south.
