Quincy Jones

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.

American Musician

Yolanda Adams

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

Paloma Faith

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

English Actress

Nostradamus

The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.

French Celebrity

Michael Gerber

The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they couldn't afford to hire people who couldn't perform.

American Writer

John C. Stennis

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

American Politician

Rebecca Hall

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

William Ernest Henley

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

English Poet

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

Estonian Politician

Bear Grylls

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

British Explorer

Used in geography, 'strait' describes narrow waterways, often international boundaries or strategic points.

Geographical Term

When part of a name, like 'Strait of Hormuz,' capitalize 'Strait' as it's a proper noun.

Capitalization

Each strait has unique navigational features and importance, often studied in geography.

Unique Features

The phrase 'dire straits' suggests extreme urgency or a critical situation, often financial.

Expressing Urgency

Used metaphorically, 'straits' means difficult situations, not physical narrow spaces.

Not Literal

Adding adjectives like 'dire' increases the severity of the situation described by 'straits'.

Intensity

As an adjective, 'strait' implies strict moral or ethical standards, often conservative.

Moral Strictness

Describing people or rules, it suggests limitations on behavior or attitudes.

Behavioral Constraints

Often relates to conservative or traditional dressing and behavior; connoting formality.

Conservative Dressing

 and somebody just came up with the idea of well, what if you rolled it. Right? I mean, that's a great design. This is a fabulous invention, LifeStraw. Basically you can suck any water through this and it will become drinkable by the time it hits your lips. So, you know, people who are in desperate straits can get this.

Alex Steffen: The route...

 Its position at the southern entrance of the Dardanelles strait would’ve made a formidable strategic location for both defense and trade. Most importantly, there are the remains of a massive fortification wall – perhaps the very same one from which Priam and Hector once watched the Greeks approach.

Did ancient Troy really...

 close-knit loyal staff who are currently struggling daily just to keep their motors running the brothers call me let me know that they're in dire straits possibly will lose the dealership and ask for my help there's a some days where we wake up in the morning say you know what you know

Dealership Tune-Up PIPE...

 conducted a mock cabinet meeting underwater recently to highlight the dire straits of these countries. So it's something we need to focus on. But back to the Phoenix Islands, which is the subject of this Talk. After I got back, I said, okay, this is amazing, what we found.

Greg Stone: Saving the...

 a ten-story building underwater. Since the strait’s depth prevented them drilling or digging the foundations, bombs were dropped on the ocean floor, creating openings for pouring concrete. A seawall was built to protect the site from powerful currents,

Building the impossible:...

 made backing off unthinkable. Whether it was threats to the environment, inequities in the distribution of wealth, lack of a sane policy or a sustainable policy with respect to the continuing uses of energy, we were in desperate straits.

Liz Coleman's call to...

 and they are in desperate straits. The magnitude of the work ahead is staggering. But we have to start somewhere. And the question becomes "What should we do?" In my mind, four things. First, we must bolster humanitarian aid provisions

My 105 Days in Taliban...

 and towards trying to take care of consumers that find themselves in really difficult straits right now. And we've been trying to, instead of people mailing out checks, which is ridiculous in today's world --

What COVID-19 means for...

 But since that time, the trade and investment volumes across the straits have become so intense that last November, leaders from both sides held a historic summit to discuss eventual peaceful reunification.

How megacities are...

 we set off and headed out in this phenomenal boat called the golden fleece we had to cross straits passage which is perhaps the most dangerous passage of water in the world you're on there for