It's too narrow.

Cook Strait lies between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

We swam across the bay.

We entered a narrow corridor.

Have you ever gone through the Straits of Magellan?

Two gigawatts comes through the Chunnel.

The Bering Strait separates Asia from North America.

England and France are separated by the English Channel.

Detroit () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the largest city on the United States Canada border.

It is thought that the effects of the spill are likely to be felt for many years to come.

Indeed, a large literature on knowledge spillovers points to their remarkably narrow geographic range.

The whole world is a very narrow bridge. The main thing is to fear nothing.

Ailinn Solomons flushed and rose from her deckchair, knocking over the console and spilling the wine they'd been drinking.

Janszoon then crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea, without seeing the Torres Strait, into the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Early in August he saw the length of Gastineau Channel from the south, noting a small island in mid channel.

The more meaningful message is how these shocks box the rest of us into an even tighter corner.

China's president achieved and consolidated his power by relying on a small coterie drawn from his Shanghai political base.

An economic bonus of such an effort for the entire region would come from the opening of direct flights and sea transport across the Taiwan Strait.

The narrow circle of Jiang's supporters reminds many people of unpopular emperors like Cheng Zu.

The Royal Navy swept the Corfu Channel for mines in 1944 and 1945, and found it to be free of mines.

But the narrow view misses the most critical consideration this Japan shock has not occurred at a time of great economic strength.

Central bankers in Europe have always resented the narrow monetary policy mandate given to the ECB under the Maastricht Treaty.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was designed as state of the art, which included a strong aesthetic preference for slender structures.

But the US military would have to be able to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world s oil supply passes.

In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned the United States against sending an aircraft carrier back into the Persian Gulf.

To the east is the Øresund, which splits Denmark and Sweden and joins the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.

However, their narrowly focused anti drug stance strongly influences the policies and practices of member nations.

The relatively tight labor market is causing wages to rise at an accelerating rate, because employers must pay more to attract and retain employees.

Northeast Asia contains the last remnants of the Cold War the divided Korean Peninsula and hostile glares across the Taiwan Straits.

Only the other four founding members of what was the European Community Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were admitted into the innermost circle of Europe's true believers.

Aware of a potential threat from within their ranks, Musharraf has populated his inner circle with relatively junior (and reliably loyal) officers.

It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel mutually undetectable except through the narrow porthole of quantum mechanical experiments.

The narrow view of the catastrophe s economic impact is that Japan doesn t really matter anymore. After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.

The narrow view of the catastrophe s economic impact is that Japan doesn t really matter anymore.

Since the local online community is a relatively narrow group of people who know one another, the information tends to be more credible.

Some, such as smallpox virus for example, can infect only one species in this case humans, and are said to have a narrow host range.

It connects the Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean) to the north with the Bering Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean) to the south.

It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean.

If you stop doing it, the people will leave, and you will have again the same small core of people who were interested in politics before.

Projects under TEN include the Channel Tunnel, LGV Est, the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, the Öresund Bridge, the Brenner Base Tunnel and the Strait of Messina Bridge.

Such an indecent gap between the opinion of the people and the opinion of the patriotic blogosphere, represented by a thin social stratum of office intelligentsia, shows how hopelessly removed these folks are from the people.

It might not be able to close the Strait of Hormuz, but threats to refineries, storage facilities, and tankers would send oil prices even higher.

Because China must import vast quantities of oil through the Malacca Strait, that sea lane has become a central element in the country s security strategy.

But such a narrow, economics based view fails to account for the larger questions of value that societies worldwide are facing.

Length 56 km, width (narrowest) 7.3 km, fairway depth 7.2 m.The strait was a place for the contemplated Sakhalin Tunnel.