straits

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• The straightest of strait-laced operators – who see search as a powerful and useful customer touchpoint, are tarnished with the same brush as the sketchiest of spammers and scammers who are still alive and well within the industry.

• I don’t want to downplay the dire straits that our elementary school kids are facing, but I don’t think taking away resources from middle and high schools kids is the answer — at least not in the numbers they are asking.

• Still, with millions of Americans out of work and in increasingly desperate straits, some lawmakers are growing more vocal with their fears about the risks of not reaching an agreement quickly.

• Prospect officials never disclosed the plan’s dire straits during the state approval process.

• Whatever the cause, the havoc this week leaves some teams, like the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos, in pretty dire straits.

• About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.

• All were led by William Barents, he of the famous strait, who sought to find a shorter trade route from Europe to China.

• And if the Strait of Hormuz were to be blocked by Iran or any other country or entity, oil prices would skyrocket.

• “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,” or so says Matthew 7.

• If a conflict with Iran escalated beyond airstrikes to a naval struggle in the Strait of Hormuz, more resources would be diverted.

• The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.