Quotes About Straits

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

I only know I'm living in the interval between The luxuries of consciousness and the straits of sorrow, A bare condition of mere being in which nothing changes And a life is just the sum of its details as it slowly slips away. — John Koethe, from "On Being Dead," Beyond Belief: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022)

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.

Indonesia's strategic location in the Indian Ocean and its control of the Melaka and Sunda Straits made the country exceptionally important for US strategic and security interests in the region.

From their strategic location at the Straits of Malacca, early Malay-Indonesian seafarers dominated both the China trade and the Indian Ocean trade. The Indonesians "traded with India by 500 BCE and China by 400 BCE, and around the beginning of the Common Era, they carried goods between China and India".24

All of Rommel's supplies and reinforcements come across those very straits from Italy, and land at Tunis or Bizerta. From there, Rommel can strike out east towards Egypt or west

Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.

The majority of PSSU systems won't be in dire straits if they're cut off from other systems. For a political structure like that, there's nary any point to having a federal government. For all intents and purposes, that federal government exists to maintain the military.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.