Sentence examples for straits like from inspiring English sources

Doctors cannot fire a patient in dire straits like severe pain, bleeding or a life-threatening situation.

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.

"When someone crosses the straits like they do," he said, "the truth is that they are really risking their lives for something that we all have a right to -- trying to make a living for our children.

Last year, a twenty-year-old contestant on "Mongolia's Got Talent" became a viral video star because of his uncannily Strait-like rendition of "Amarillo by Morning".

The occurrence of warm-water species suggests inflow from the southern strait, like the present Tsushima Current, and inflow via the northern strait explains the predominance of cold temperate species.

To kick with the ball of the foot, when striking the ankle should be strait (like when you point your toes) with your toes pulled back.

In a debate that once was the preserve of academics, the United States and the major shipping nations of Europe argue that the waters of the Northwest Passage constitute international straits, just like the Strait of Gibraltar or the Dardanelles.

Now those are the kind of dire straits I'd like to be in.

A mystic of deep piety who would leave the family for weeks at a time to study, dance, and pray with his rebbe, Pinchas Mendel was untroubled by his financial straits and, like a Hasidic Mr. Micawber, kept assuring the family that something would turn up, possibly even the Messiah.

The song opens with finger-picked guitar arpeggios that sound more like Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler than like the hard crack of a traditional flat-picking guitar player.

Hundreds of other foreign-owned companies in Cyprus are in similar straits, whether new arrivals like Avid Life Media or long-timers like KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Lukoil.