sea lane

Example Sentences

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So far no tankers have been seized in the heavily-traveled sea lanes near Iran as part of that campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though “American hegemony” offered some benefits—“open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes”—it also required collective self-deception.

From The Wall Street Journal

That was from an international rules-based order, under “American hegemony,” which he said “helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.”

From Barron's

But the sea lanes opening up in the Arctic because of climate change is the reason that Greenland is suddenly a larger security concern.

From Salon

It also threatens to upend decades of U.S. foreign policy under which Washington engendered goodwill with allies by protecting sea lanes and serving as a guarantor of the free trade of oil.

From The Wall Street Journal