Synonym: head, pass, strait. Similar words: strait, straitened, dire straits, straitlaced, strait of hormuz, trait, traitor, portrait. Meaning: [streɪt] n. 1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs 2. a difficult juncture.
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61. We will be in financial straits.
62. The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
63. The US success in Indonesia was a more important foreign policy victory, with control of the strategic naval chokepoint the Straits of Malacca at stake, than its subsequent failure in Indochina.
64. Singapore's Straits Times argued in an editorial this month that all the talk about Asian economies "decoupling from the West remains a pipe dream.
65. I learnt in the Menai Straits off Anglesey at 19. It's an escape from thinking.
66. A great convulsion is shaking the earth from the Khyber Pass to the Straits of Gibraltar.
67. QUESTIONGER: Mr. Vice President a two - part question concerning the offshore islands in the Formosa Straits.
68. But memories of her early straits had made her excessively thrifty.
69. He emphasized that the world faces many grave problems and he bewailed the ignorance of leaders about the desperate straits of marginalized communities living in the world’s poorest places.
70. By "multilateralizing" the CMI, in the jargon,[http://sentencedict.com/straits.html] a member country in financial straits could be able to draw more quickly on a deeper pool of funds.
71. Personnel, economic and cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Straits have kept increasing.
72. The Turkish Straits connect the Black and Aegean Seas and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.
73. Martin Kaymer Takes Home The Wanamaker Trophy; In a three-hole playoff, the German golfer beat Bubba Watson to win the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
74. One of the main causes of the current straits faced by the compulsory education in China's rural areas in that the reform of educational system can't suit the reform of fiscal system.
75. We should, of course , draw lessons from the dire straits welfare states find themselves in.
76. As more states find themselves in financial straits, such programmes will remain vulnerable.
77. During the depositional period of this sequence, there were three paleocontinents, two straits and a bathyal slope in the southeast part of the Tarim basin.
78. Absent access to credit, we must also be prepared to watch low-wage workers slide into desperate straits.
79. The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshushima.
80. Weather Map published on this Monday's Straits Times : Temperatures in different regions of Asia can have such significant differences.
81. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits.
82. Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as 'an island situated in front of the straits called the Pillars of Hercules.'
83. If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits.
84. The ship sailed from the Black Sea, through Bosphorus , Dardanelles Straits and into the Mediterranean.
85. Youth across the Straits should strengthen exchange to enhance mutual understanding.
86. The Straits of Gibraltar are the strategic passage between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
87. Discovery of Bass Straits.His friend Bass was more fortunate; for Governor Hunter gave him an open whaleboat, together with provisions for six weeks, and six men to manage the boat.
88. Economic straits have chipped away at the hallowed idea of lifetime employment for many Japanese, but the workplace remains a potent source of community.
89. Zhanjiang Bay Bridge is a 5 span continuous composite cable stayed bridge of floating system across Maxie straits.
90. As the Sea of Azov is at the tip of this triangle of descending rivers, the stretch is likely to play like a pin-pong game there, a tug and release action at the straits near Taman.
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