Sentence examples for off the strait from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, Iran's regular navy ended a 10-day drill in the waters off the strait.

In Tuesday's election, three voter choices showed that people will throw off the strait-jacket of conventional wisdom if properly persuaded.

Forced to flee further west, the Taira family was finally completely destroyed in 1185 in the great sea battle of Dannoura, which occurred off the eastern end of the strait that separates Kyushu from Honshu.

This property of β is confirmed from an analysis of more than 10 million wind-generated waves recorded in the sea area of the NOEL laboratory off the east coast of the Straits of Messina.

What is really going on here is the same culture war that has been raging in America since I was a kid - the same stand-off between the strait-laced, self-righteous toe-the-line types who wear hats to church, and the grubby, licentious long-hairs brandishing peace signs with whom I grew up.

Iran's threat to shut off the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil passes, sent prices soaring this month.

Though the White House said the deal had not been accelerated to respond to threats by Iranian officials in recent days to shut off the Strait of Hormuz, its timing is laden with significance, as tensions with Iran have deepened and the United States has withdrawn its last soldiers from Iraq.

His role in the Obama administration's strategy of coercive diplomacy with Iran, however, will be to convince Tehran that there is no getting out of the corner — no chance they can seal off the Strait of Hormuz or threaten Israel or Saudi Arabia.

Iran threatened last month to shut off the Strait of Hormuz - the world's most important oil shipping lane - if new U.S. and EU sanctions halted its oil exports.

Helle fell off and was drowned in the strait that after her was called the Hellespont.

The Masirah ferry cast off after sunset and ploughed across the strait under a full moon.