(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.
Streit
Definition:
(a.) Drawn.
(a.) Close; narrow; strict.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Haag-Streit Lotmar Visometer was evaluated to determine its accuracy in predicting macular potential prior to cataract removal in 101 cases.
(2) An original system of grading of the corneal endothelial specular reflection, as assessed with a Haag-Streit 900 slit-lamp biomicroscope, has been shown to have a very highly significant relation to the endothelial cell density measured by contact specular photomicroscopy.
(3) (1969), and axial chamber depth (ACD) was measured optically using Haag Streit pachymetry.
(4) Retinal acuity was measured using the SITE IRAS hand-held interferometer and the Haag-Streit Lotmar visometer.
(5) The results showed predicted acuity to be within two lines of the final acuity in 57.1% of eyes with the Haag-Streit unit and in 42.8% of eyes with the SITE instrument.
(6) The laser interferometer predicted a final visual acuity to within one line of that actually achieved in 93%, and to within two lines in 98%, whereas for the Haag-Streit these figures were 64% and 81%, and for the Site 77% and 92%.
(7) A total of 751 subjects (367 men and 384 women) (1502 eyes) was examined twice on two different days using a Goldmann tonometer mounted on a Haag-Streit slitlamp.
(8) The corneal thickness was measured with a Haag-Streit pachometer prior to cataract extraction and 4 days to 6 months after the operation.
(9) A Sonometrics DBR 400 ultrasound equipment and a Haag-Streit keratometer had been used for measuring eye length and corneal power, the Binkhorst programme and SRK formula for selecting IOL power, resulting in an IOL range of +12 to +23 D. Mainly, low myopia was intended.
(10) An attachment to (Haag-Streit and Topcon) slit-lamps is described.
(11) The main unit consists essentially of a Haag-Streit slit lamp combined with a rigidly mounted Q-switched laser.
(12) The relationship between the ocular hypotensive effect of timolol and anterior corneal curvature was also investigated using a Goldmann applanation tonometer and a two-position keratometer (Haag-Streit).
(13) The anterior chamber depth was measured with the Haag-Streit Pachymeter in 26 cases (33 eyes) of primary angle-closure glaucoma preoperatively and postoperatively on days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 30, 45 and 60.
(14) 42 eyes of 41 patients were tested with both a Haag-Streit (Lotmar) white light interferometer and a Rodenstock laser interferometer, and 14 were also tested with a Site white light machine.
(15) The nine methods investigated in this report are the diaminobenzidine (DAB) procedures of LaVail JH and LaVail MM (J Comp Neurol 157:303, 1974), of Adams JC (Neuroscience 2:141, 1977) and of Streit P and Reubi JC (Brain Res 126:530, 1977); the benzidine dihydrochloride (BDHC) procedures of Mesulam M-M (J Histochem Cytochem 24:1273, 1976) and of De Olmos J and Heimer L (Neurosci Lett 6:107, 1977); the o-dianisidine (O-D) procedure of De Olmos J (Exp Brain Res 29:541, 1977); the p-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride and pyrocatechol (PPD-PC) procedure of Hanker JS et al., (Histochem J 9:789, 1977) and the tetramethyl benzidine (TMB) procedures of Mesulam M-M (J Histochem Cytochem 26:106, 1978) and of De Olmos J et al.
(16) A total of 80 patients with senile cataract had the anterior eye chamber depth measured optically by means of Haag-Streit's attachment II.
(17) The L3, L4, and L5 mAbs have been described to recognize different mannosidic epitopes on glycoproteins, some of which have been identified as neural cell adhesion molecules, and on astrocyte-specific proteoglycan from mouse brain (Kücherer A, Faissner A, Schachner M (1987): J Cell Biol 104:1597-1602; Fahrig T, Schmitz B, Weber D, Kücherer-Ehret A, Faissner A, Schachner M (1990): Eur J Neurosci 2:153-161; Streit A, Faissner A, Gehrig B, Schachner M (1990): J Neurochem In Press).
(18) Using the Haag-Streit pachymeter, measurements were taken preoperatively and at postoperative days 1, 2, 3, 6, 15, and 42.
(19) The estimate is made with a conventional Haag-Streit 900 slit lamp without any extra attachments.
(20) The central cornea thickness (CCT) was measured in 17 patients with localized scleroderma (morphoea) by the Haag-Streit pachymeter.