What's the difference between dardanelles and strait?
Dardanelles
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s not like the millions of dollars that have been spent against me by outside groups are as pure and clean as the wind-driven snow.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Republican challenger Tom Cotton runs a 5k race in Dardanelle, Arkansas.
(2) Tapsell said: “Does [the prime minister] fully recognise the contrast in efficiency between the inquiries into the Crimean war and the Dardanelles campaign when compared with the disgraceful incompetence of the Chilcot enquiry into widely held suspicions that Mr Blair conspired with President George W Bush several months before March 2003 and then systematically sought to falsify the evidence on which that action was taken?” Cameron replied: “I bow to the Father of the House’s knowledge about these previous enquiries.
(3) The protesters found the 52,000-tonne semi-submersible platform Leiv Eiriksson at around midnight, steaming due west at a stately six knots in the sea of Marmara, heading for the Dardanelle straits and the open Mediterranean.
(4) Around 87,000 Ottoman Turkish troops also lost their lives defending the narrow strip of land that guards the western shore of the Dardanelles strait, while at least 300,000 on both sides were seriously wounded.
(5) Gallipoli was the brainchild of Winston Churchill – then First Lord of the Admiralty – in early 1915, with the aim of breaking the deadlock on the Western Front by opening up the heavily mined Dardanelles, seizing Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and linking up with Russia to knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war.
(6) The government still tries to prime the pump with mega-construction projects including a third bridge across the Bosphorus, a bridge bypassing Istanbul from Thrace across the Dardanelles, and yet another bridge across the Sea of Marmara.
(7) It’s not bad, and it’s good in government, and good in politics,” Cotton told the Guardian when asked why he had changed his mind, after finishing a 5,000m race in his home town of Dardanelle at 7 that morning.
(8) Frankly, my views on the Iraq war are well known and I want this inquiry published.” Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons, who once served as an adviser to the late prime minister Sir Anthony Eden whose time in Downing Street was cut short by the Suez Crisis in 1956, said that the Iraq inquiry has taken longer than those into the Crimean war and the Dardanelles campaign in the first world war.
(9) He demanded a base in the Dardanelles and territories in eastern Turkey .
(10) This autumn has been the economic equivalent of the Dardanelles.
(11) When the 27-year-old author of “If I should die, think only this of me” eerily fulfilled his own epitaph and succumbed to septicaemia as he waited to join the invasion of the Dardanelles, the poet was made a Byronic figure of enchantment.
(12) Are there not other alternatives,” the man destined to be Britain’s second world war saviour inquired, “than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” The plan was to open up the Dardanelles straits, heavily mined and ably defended on its western shore by Turkish coastal forts and gun batteries on the 50-mile-long Gallipoli peninsula, to allied ships, capture Constantinople – present-day Istanbul – and so link up with Russia, knocking Germany’s ally, Ottoman Turkey, out of the conflict.
(13) In a TV ad the campaign released in May, Cotton and Anna Peckham , his wife since March, arrange flowers outside the house in Dardanelle he inherited from his family.
Strait
Definition:
(a.) A variant of Straight.
(superl.) Narrow; not broad.
(superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.
(superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
(superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
(superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
(superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
(adv.) Strictly; rigorously.
(a.) A narrow pass or passage.
(a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
(a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.
(a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
(v. t.) To put to difficulties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coastguard Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, carrying official UN refugee agency (UNHCR) documents, were travelling from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
(2) It’s a model Guyula says could be strengthened and expanded if the Australian government agreed to negotiate a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
(3) Burrows had resigned as governor of Bank of Ireland, leaving the lender in dire straits, with big losses and mounting debt threatening its very survival.
(4) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
(5) In the wake of direct shipping and postal links, this summer also saw the first direct flights across the Taiwan Straits since the civil war, with passenger services now running daily.
(6) If one of the focuses of this government is getting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people employed and staying within the workforce then one would have thought we’d have seen a larger outcome of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations funded under this strategy.
(7) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
(8) An epidemiological study of the prevalence of refractive errors was made of the Eskimo population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
(9) Abbott will never be the prime minister for Aboriginal affairs because his “lifestyle” claim exposed such a fundamental lack of understanding about the imperative of “country” to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including those in the cities, that I’m sure few will ever be able to trust him again.
(10) Mortality at study sites in the Strait of Juan de Fuca was related to premature parturition; 19 of 49 (39%) of the pups found dead were born prematurely.
(11) She read aloud the act preamble , acknowledging the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders as the inhabitants of Australia before European settlement and the dispossession, without compensation, of their lands.
(12) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
(13) Still, Murrumu’s qualified support for constitutional recognition will be controversial among the many Indigenous Australians who believe “recognise” offers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nothing and that treaties are a minimum starting point.
(14) Except sex.” Rechtshaid and Flowers bonded on the phone over Dire Straits and Depeche Mode, relinquishing control to each other in Flowers’ Battle Born studios and crafting an accessible yet sophisticated power rock record.
(15) Earlier in the expedition, the crew believe, they became the first boat to travel through the Nares Strait west of Greenland to the Arctic Ocean in June, once impassable because of sea ice at that time of year.
(16) When the White House sent a private message to Tehran last week about its so-called "red lines" in the Strait of Hormuz, the reaction was both puzzled and incredulous.
(17) The loss of Aboriginal land, cultures and livelihoods is at the core of the climate crisis, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people forced off our land due to extractive industries that fuel climate change, and increasingly by the devastating impacts of sea level rise, drought and reduced access to clean water,” she said.
(18) With one exception, animals from Georgia Strait and those away from the immediate influence of Fraser River water contained no detectable levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
(19) But they did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a grievous, hurtful, harmful wrong on many levels and this includes failing to include a single positive word about us anywhere in the constitution of modern Australia.
(20) The straited accumulations in adrenal cortical cells and brain macrophages that are characteristic of adrenoleukodystrophy have been studied histochemically in cryostat sections to seek leads for the biochemical identification of the striated material.