Thomas Mallon

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.

American Novelist

Michael Korda

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

English Novelist

James Wolcott

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

American Critic

Robert Zoellick

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

American Public Servant

Jake Sullivan

For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.

Julie Burchill

Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.

British Journalist

Caterina Fake

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

American Businesswoman

Arancha Gonzalez

In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.

Spanish Economist

Priti Patel

We are not some small landlocked European country who needs the E.U. to make decisions for us or protect us from competition.

British Politician

Brad Leone

I've always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.

American Chef

The term 'landlocked' emphasizes the absence of direct access to oceans or seas.

No Water Access

Landlocked areas may face difficulties in trade due to lack of ports.

Trade Challenges

Frequently used in geography, 'landlocked' helps describe a location's features.

Geographical Use

Being landlocked can limit how easily an area can be reached by transportation.

Accessibility Issue

The term highlights a potential economic disadvantage for businesses in the area.

Economic Impact

Refers to dependency on road or rail networks instead of shipping lanes.

Inner Transport

 Now should we be upset about this, about the potential disintegration of Iraq? I don't believe we should. Iraq will still be the second largest oil producer in the world, behind Saudi Arabia. And we'll have a chance to solve a 3,000 year old dispute. Now remember Kurdistan is landlocked.

Parag Khanna maps the...

 in shipping over the last 60 years, when most of the general public stopped noticing it, was something called an open registry, or a flag of convenience. Ships can now fly the flag of any nation that provides a flag registry. You can get a flag from the landlocked nation

Rose George: Inside the...

 the size of a turkey and covered in hair like down feathers it was called Sinosauropteryx and it's feather like filament was a crucial link between landlocked dinosaurs and modern winged birds birds alligators and dinosaurs forever linked in evolutionary history

Family Ties PIPE Jurassic...

 we couldn't get staple crops like grains and rice to grow this way. So we killed the project. Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous costs in resources and environmental damage to ship goods worldwide. Economic development of landlocked countries

The unexpected benefit...

 but I'm completely moved by the fact that people are using it as if it had always been there. And here is a new park in lower Manhattan. Now, the water's edge in lower Manhattan was a complete mess before 9/11. Wall Street was essentially landlocked

Amanda Burden: How...

 was for mobile communications but then also you have of course when the internet came along you have landlocked countries where submarine cables don't work so the middle of Africa for example you can't use submarine cables to get to them

How Do Satellites Help...

 It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,

How megacities are...

 of the world's regions by GDP that's true on an aggregate as well as a per capita basis now as we heard yesterday sub-saharan Africa it's a big place we have 48 countries all of their own story we have coastal countries landlocked

Cultivating wealth and...

 The point is my country and my people have done nothing to contribute to global warming, but we are already bearing the brunt of its consequences. And for a small, poor country, one that is landlocked and mountainous,

This country isn't just...

 Visible from space, the Okavango Delta is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness. This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari,