Sentence examples for at the strait from inspiring English sources

Discusses the Palestinian Arabs, the Egyptian blockade at the strait of Bab el-Mandeb, & the oil blockade in Arab nations, especially in Saudi Arabia, who is hostile to the U.S. & to Sadat.

Subsidence in the sea floor at the strait allowed water from the Atlantic to pour slowly into the Mediterranean basin for several thousand years, before the flow became a powerful surge that filled 90% of the Mediterranean very rapidly – between a few months and two years.

Singapore, one of the world's most important ports, is situated at the strait's southern end.

He launched into "Satisfaction" -- yes, the Rolling Stones' song -- and the crowd squealed at the strait-laced rendition by the guy in the tux.

There he was given special responsibility for the Gallipoli Campaign (a land assault at the straits) without, however, any powers of direction.

And in a rare honor for a new course, the men's Professional Golfers Association Championship is to take place at the Straits Course in 2004.

Many Arab countries, indignant at the straits to which the sanctions have reduced ordinary Iraqis, and angrier than usual about America's support for Israel amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have been getting on better with Mr Hussein of late.

"Teaching our youth in school how to fall in love" is a good solution, wrote Andy Ho, a senior writer at The Straits Times, a government-friendly newspaper that does its best to help out in Singapore's many campaigns.

One of the Midwest's oldest cities, Detroit was founded in 1701 with the original name of "la Ville d'Etroit" or "the city at the straits".

Users will be able to explore features such as the canyons and shoals in eastern Lake Superior, the Lake Michigan mid-lake reef complex, and the old river channel, now underwater, that once connected Lakes Michigan and Huron at the Straits of Mackinac.

After 2000, the intensification of the border controls at the Straits of Gibraltar have increasingly driven illegal migrants to use boats to reach European coasts such as Lampedusa, Sicily or the Canary Islands (Adepoju [2008]; De Haas [2006]).