There are two suspension bridges over the Bosphorus, both its Asian and European banks rise steeply from the water and form a succession of cliffs, coves, and nearly landlocked bays.

Ethiopia is landlocked and was by agreement with Eritrea using the ports of Asseb and Massawa ; since the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, Ethiopia has used the port of Djibouti for nearly all of its imports.

Jordan is landlocked except at its southern extremity, where nearly twenty-six kilometers of shoreline along the Gulf of Aqaba provide access to the Red Sea.

Being nearly landlocked affects conditions in the Mediterranean Sea: for instance, tides are very limited as a result of the narrow connection with the Atlantic Ocean.

There are two suspension bridges over the Bosphorus, both its Asian and European banks rise steeply from the water and form a succession of cliffs, coves, and nearly landlocked bays.

Oceanographically, the Laguna Madre is considered a hypersaline lagoon ; this indicates that it is usually much saltier than the ocean, due to being nearly landlocked in a semiarid environment This is because its salinity can vary wildly depending on rainfall and freshwater inflow, from as high as 120 ppt ( 12 %) – over three times saltier than the ocean – to as low as 2 ppt ( 0. 2 %) after a heavy rain.

This ocean is nearly km ( mi ) wide at the southern tips of Africa and Australia, and its area is km² ( mi² ), including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

The summer months are warm but can get hot and moderately humid, with moist air riding up from the Gulf of Mexico, and high temperatures surpass on 4 days of the year, and on nearly 40 days.

An attempt to reinstate civilian rule was abandoned after the above-mentioned Moroccan-sponsored coup attempt nearly brought down the regime ; foreign-backed plots also involved Persian Gulf countries and Libya, and the country several times appeared to be under military threat from Morocco.

In 2002, the Persian Gulf nations of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, produced about 25 % of the world's oil, held nearly two-thirds of the world's crude oil reserves, and about 35 % of the world natural gas reserves.

At one time, Qataris owned nearly one-third of the Persian Gulf fishing fleet.

* Several typhoons and hurricanes resulted in extreme destruction in this decade, especially in 2005 ( the most active in recorded history ) with Hurricane Katrina nearly destroying New Orleans, followed by Hurricane Rita, which wreaked destruction along the U. S. Gulf Coast.

* October 12 – En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial riot involving more than 200 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ; nearly 50 sailors are injured.

Washington County, Florida was created in 1825, and was nearly twice the size of the State of Delaware, stretching all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, The Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than $ 365 million to serve more than 1. 7 million people in nearly every state.

Hurricanes are rare since Decatur sits nearly inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

The area had extensive flooding because it is nearly flat prairie, with an average elevation of only nine feet above the Gulf of Mexico.

When Featherstone Osler and his bride ( Ellen Free Picton ) arrived in Canada they were nearly ship-wrecked again on Egg Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Cato scholars opposed President George H. W. Bush's 1991 Gulf War operations ( a position which caused the organization to lose nearly $ 1 million in funding ), President Bill Clinton's interventions in Haiti and Kosovo, and President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq.

After nearly 50 years of proxy wars, and constant fears of another war in Europe between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, some thought the Persian Gulf War might finally answer the question of which military philosophy would have reigned supreme.

With its headwaters at, the Colorado River loses nearly two miles in elevation by the time it reaches the Gulf.

These three rivers bound nearly 80 percent of the Salween basin, but there are other smaller drainage areas to the southeast and southwest, some emptying into the Andaman Sea / Indian Ocean and some into the Gulf of Thailand.

As a result of these exchanges the British controlled nearly all of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi.

After languishing for days and nearly dissipating due to the ocean-cooling effect of its own rainfall, it rapidly intensified to a hurricane and began moving north across the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mississippi Sandhill Crane has most drastically declined in range ; it used to occur along most of the northern Gulf of Mexico coast and its range was at one time nearly parapatric with that of its eastern neighbor ( compare the Mottled Duck ); today only 25 breeding pairs exist in an intensively managed population, but this seems at least stable in recent times.

Despite the use of bycatch reduction devices, the shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico removes about 25-45 million red snapper annually as bycatch, nearly one half the amount taken in directed recreational and commercial snapper fisheries.

Entella ( Greek: ), was an ancient city in the interior of Sicily, situated on the left bank of the river Hypsas ( modern Belice ), and nearly midway between the two seas, being about 40 km from the mouth of the Hypsas, and much about the same distance from the north coast of the island, at the Gulf of Castellamare.

SFM holds retreats for students at the Franciscan Mountain Retreat Centre at Mount Irenaeus, including BonaResponds — which sent nearly 300 people to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and continues to perform relief work at home and across the county — and SIFE ( Students in Free Enterprise ), which has established successful business and education programs in the Bahamas.

Downtown is nearly 200 m from the shoreline of the Ionian Sea, which includes the nearby Gulf of Kyparissia ( Kyparissiakos Kolpos ), and west of the nearest mountains.

The Indian classical music tradition provides the accompaniment for the dance, and as percussion is such an integral part of the tradition, the dancers of nearly all the styles wear bells around their ankles to counterpoint and complement the percussion.

The size of the grouping varies but computer hardware nearly always provides a way to represent a processor register, or memory address as an integer ; the set of integer sizes available varies between different types of computers.

Wireless internet is portable: users can connect nearly anywhere through a receiver ( connected to the client via USB or Ethernet ) and it provides download rates between 512 kbit / s and 1 Mbit / s depending on the chosen plan.

:* Zebrafish ( Danio rerio, a freshwater fish )-has a nearly transparent body during early development, which provides unique visual access to the animal's internal anatomy.

It is normally implemented as an interpreter because of the difficulty in implementing some of its very high-level features, but there is a compiler, the SPITBOL compiler, which provides nearly all the facilities that the interpreter provides.

An 1898 American legal textbook on defamation provides definitions of libel and slander nearly identical to those given by Blackstone and Coke.

The DPL handset provides a user interface nearly identical to that of the 9505 series phones.

Such a package provides a single computer enthusiast with access to nearly everything Microsoft offers.

Hill AFB provides employment for nearly 23, 000 military and civilian personnel ( approximately 4, 500 active duty, 1, 200 reservists, 13, 000 federal civil servants, and 4, 000 civilian contractors ).

Cruise ship tourism rocketed upward from about 230, 000 passengers in 1990 to nearly 1, 000, 000 in 2006 as cruise lines built more and larger ships — even ' mega-ships ', sailing to Juneau seven days a week instead of six, over a longer season, but this primarily summer industry provides few year-round jobs.

On the other hand, Section 23 provides a nearly universal right to English-language schooling for the children of Canadian-born anglophones living in Quebec.

Section 23 also provides, in theory, a nearly universal right to French-language schooling for the children of all francophones living outside Quebec, including immigrants from French-speaking countries who settle outside Quebec, and who are Canadian citizens.

The first and third parts ( A ) are musically identical, or very nearly so, while the second part ( B ) in some way provides a contrast with them.

The Nenana Ice Classic administration provides employment for nearly 100 locals during the counting and tabulation of the tickets providing chances on when the Tanana River breakup in the spring.

U-46 provides educational services to nearly 40, 000 students in area of approximately in Cook, DuPage and Kane Counties.

This includes Town Creek, which nearly splits the town in two from north to south and provides a protected harbor for boaters and Oxford's local shipbuilders.

* PlusNews, the UN's HIV / AIDS news service provides HIV prevalence rates for nearly 60 countries worldwide

The Hubbard Volunteer Fire Department provides fire safety services to both the City of Hubbard and Hubbard Township — an area covering nearly.

Lord Fairfax Community College has a campus in Luray which provides students with nearly all necessary classes needed to graduate from the institution.

" The work lists, defines, and provides examples for nearly 250 Yeshivish words and phrases.

FFD provides services to nearly 10, 000 people in their first due, which comprises the entire town of Farmville, and into the immediately surrounding area of Prince Edward County, Buckingham County, and Cumberland County.

( Episode 1. 5 – " The Outsider "); The Devil Wears Prada ( Although it is uncredited an instrumental version of the song is played at nearly every pivotal moment in the film, as well as during the end credits ); One Tree Hill ( Episode 1. 17-" Spirit in the Night "); Duane Hopwood ; Friday Night Lights ( TV Series ) – song provides inspirational back-drop in scene where back-up Matt Saracen takes the field and excels

The following provides the traditional Aramaic text, which ( except for the one line connecting one Day of Atonement to another, as noted ) is nearly identical in both Ashkenaz and Sefardic liturgies, with an English gloss.