straits

The entire kerfuffle shows the straits that House Republicans are in on immigration reform.

Time for some tough love—Republicans leaders have dumped a 100-page report that spells out why their party is in dire straits.

His father was near senility, his mother was overbearing, and the household was in financial straits.

Yes, the campaign would be more interesting if American warships were getting shelled in the Straits of Hormuz.

They could agree to procedures in the Straits of Hormuz to prevent incidents from escalating.

The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."

A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

The Admiralty have turned down the proposal to force the Straits simultaneously by land and sea.

How will he feel now he realizes he is shorn of his direct power to help us through these dark and dreadful Straits?

But what a shame that the sons of a manufacturing country like Great Britain should be in straits for engines so simple.