Sentence examples similar to facing the strait from inspiring English sources

Yet, together they took a white clapboard house, built in 1928 on a lonely promontory on timber-clad Vancouver Island, facing the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Olympic Mountains of Washington State beyond it, and in 21 years turned the place into an enticing and idiosyncratic retreat for epicures.

It occupies the tip of the Takanawa Peninsula, facing the Kurushima Strait on the Inland Sea.

Not far away, facing the picturesque strait, is the long-anticipated Four Seasons Bosphorus (Ciragan Caddesi 28; 90-212-381-4000; www.fourseasons.com/bosphorus), a marble-rich, cabana-lined hotel where the rates range from merely expensive to stratospheric.

Fukuoka faces the Tsushima Strait (Eastern Channel) to the west, the Inland Sea to the northwest, the Shimonoseki Strait to the north, and the Ariake Sea to the south.

The shrine's architecture is a masterpiece of the shinden style: Poised on vermilion pillars and facing the mainland across the Onoseto Strait, it appears at high tide to float on the sea.

With the industry in dire straits, and facing the threat of being blacklisted by international financial organizations, Luxembourg last month took the unprecedented step of joining other tax havens, like Switzerland and Liechtenstein, in relaxing bank secrecy to provide more cooperation against tax cheats.

It is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, facing the Leizhou Peninsula, across the Hainan (Qiongzhou) Strait (9.5 miles [15 km] wide).

Kii Peninsula, Japanese Kii-hantō, peninsula of southern Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean (east and south) and the Kii Strait and the Inland Sea (west).

Elizabeth (Parker) is still mourning the death of her husband and unable to face the reality of their financial straits.

With the easiest cross-strait deals behind him, Mr Ma faces the hard job of liberalising trade in goods within two years by negotiating tariff cuts on thousands of Taiwanese and Chinese items.

Tensions rose among the men, who faced the prospect of a long and dangerous voyage, that would take them through the uncharted Endeavour Strait and then many months of hard sailing.