Straits Quotes

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn`t have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

We`re in real dire straits in the marketplace right now.

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it`s a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates,

I don`t really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we`re doing is so varied.

It shows the dire straits the prosecution`s case is in,

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

Some of these folks were in terrible straits. People were put in severe financial jeopardy as a result of incurring incredibly high health care expenses.

If we tag a shark out here and it shows up in the Florida Straits, that`s pretty cool.