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Sentence Examples From February onward army and blackshirt militia units mobilized and embarked for the long journey through the Suez Canal to Eritrea and Somalia. The Suez Canal and the Mediterranean must have been kinder because they were never blamed for her indisposition. The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships still went by the Cape. Personnel from HMAS Anzac set off to do a tour of Egypt while the ship is anchored near the entrance to the Suez Canal. He and his mates were hard at work, preparing the new AIF camp close to the Suez Canal at Tel el Kebir. He had also joined others from the ship's company in a sponsored run along the Suez Canal in aid of a cancer charity. The start of a three week blockage of the Suez Canal by the Germans placing magnetic and acoustic mines there. You could snap up the Brazilian football team for that kind of money and still have change to buy the Suez Canal. Cyprus's southern extremity is just 200 kilometres from the Suez Canal. I was travelling back from Singapore with a group captain and his wife when our ship was suddenly turned away from the Suez Canal just as the crisis there erupted. For economically pressed carriers, the long way around has two advantages: avoiding higher insurance rates and avoiding the Suez Canal toll. The Mediterranean is now experiencing an influx of tropical fish that have migrated through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea or Indian Ocean. This is the first time that NATO vessels have sailed through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea. Our Chinese contacts are well versed in commerce, and shipments routed via the Suez Canal to Halifax are becoming a reality. The Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles are all at high risk. The Mediterranean is part of the great sea route between East and South Asia and Europe, through the Suez Canal. Last month, the Cosco Asia containership was attacked in the Suez Canal by Egyptian militants who were hoping to destabilise the government. Ships bound for India and the east, unable to use the Suez Canal, had to sail via the Cape, and were serviced and victualled at West African ports. It was originally built for Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III, in 1869 for use in the inauguration of the Suez Canal. She surmounted many an adventure and challenge. In the Suez Canal, she was almost sunk by mistake during the 1956 Egypt-Israel conflict. Show More Sentences Tourism and rights of way on the Suez Canal are the country's main foreign currencies resources. Nevertheless, so far, the authorities remain in measure to totally assure the opening of the Suez Canal. Currently, the Suez Canal can accommodate ships with drafts of up to 15m, which excludes very large and ultra large crude carriers. With this regain of interest, several projects are under way including that of Port Said on the Suez Canal. The men are accused, inter alia, of plotting attacks against ships in the Suez Canal and tourist sites. It will help to improve links with the Suez Canal and the rest of Africa, along with the opportunities it offers. An expansion of the Suez Canal would mean larger vessels and more traffic across the Mediterranean with bigger risks. Those were dangerous events and the Suez Canal and Korean war files should be re-opened. Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House in the same year. More directly, the Suez Canal crisis also blew up in October. Egypt is enlarging the Suez Canal to double its ship capacity, and scientists worry that more Red-Sea creatures will then make their way into the Mediterranean. Leaving their home ports in April 2008, the three ships met in the Caribbean Sea for an exercise and then proceed as a flotilla to the Arabian Sea via Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 revived European interest in the East, but no nation was successful in establishing trade dominance. In the following decades, the security of the Suez Canal, as the pathway to India, became a major focus of British foreign policy. Its strategic value increased with the opening of the Suez Canal, as it lay on the sea route between the UK and the British Empire east of Suez. It includes the affluent neighborhood of Port Tawfik, which directly overlooks the Suez Canal. Prior bids to move oil through the canal had been rejected by the Suez Canal Company as being too risky. On August 24, 1892, Murex became the first tanker to pass through the Suez Canal. In October 1922 he sailed on board SS Herefordshire via the Suez Canal and Ceylon to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. She departed Nagasaki on 3 September 1877, and via the Suez Canal, she visited Mediterranean ports before returning to Boston on 30 December. Show More Sentences The important shipping route between India and Britain passed through the Suez Canal, and was considered threatened by France. The Indian Ocean is artificially connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, which is accessible via the Red Sea. The boundary between Asia and Africa is the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, and the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal offers a significantly shorter passage for ships than passing round the Cape of Good Hope. The attacks in the area of the Gulf of Aden frighten away sailors who want to use the Red Sea and Suez Canal to reach Europe from Asia or vice versa. In the case of the Suez Canal an alternative route was hardly possible. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 facilitated direct trade and communications with Spain. The number of trips is still very small compared to the thousands of ships each year through the Suez Canal. At the end of 1942, Great Britain and the United States put a stop to the series of remarkable military successes of Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrikakorps, who threatened to capture Egypt and the Suez Canal. Egypt also plays an important role in exports of liquidised natural gas and global oil transport via the Suez Canal, and is currently engaged in the development of regional gas and electricity networks. The Suez Canal is 141 years old and, while it is a lifeline for global shipping, it cannot handle supertankers, forcing shippers to rely on oil pipelines or smaller vessels to move crude oil through it. In 1875 the British government, on the initiative of the prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, purchased the khedive Ismāʿīl's Suez Canal shares and became the largest shareholder. It involved a military coup against Nasser using the Eastern Front Army, headquartered in the Suez Canal town of Ismailiyah. In 1869, the late Khedive Ismail gave instructions to build an opera house to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. If the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, for example, are losing their importance because the majority of the shipping will go another way, that potential may move to another area. In Egypt, the Suez Canal is found far more fascinating than the pyramids. It is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west, to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Hassanin said that the Suez Canal is Egypt's gate to the future and to internationality, both politically and economically. Likewise, it will be crucial to win the support of states that control major transit routes such as the Suez Canal and the Malacca Strait, as well as states that have major transshipment ports on their territory. The agreement applied to scheduled international maritime transport services for containerised goods between Northern Europe and Asia via the Suez Canal. Show More Sentences Some importers are now establishing routes from Asia to Halifax, via the Suez Canal, setting the stage for feeder vessels to take cargo further inland. The workshop is the culmination of a three-year Darwin Initiative Sea Turtle Project in Egypt, which was a collaborative initiative between Suez Canal University and the University of London. In 1946 the British military moved to the Suez Canal Zone where we had many RAF and Army bases. So successful were the steamers using the Suez Canal that, in 1871, 45 were built in Clyde shipyards alone for Far Eastern trade. In 1869 the Suez Canal opened under Napoleon III, linking the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean. Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed away because of the Hungarian revolt, China left because of Taiwan and Arab nations were absent because of the war on the Suez Canal. In November 1956, Britain and France invaded Egypt in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to capture the Suez Canal. The Ottomans threatened Russia's Caucasian territories and Britain's communications with India via the Suez Canal. It took Campania and Plym eight weeks to make the voyage, as they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope instead of traversing the Suez Canal. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. On November 5, Britain and France landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal was opened in 1869, after ten years of work financed by the French and Egyptian governments. The Suez Canal Company was not due to revert to the Egyptian government until 16 November 1968 under the terms of the treaty. International conferences were organised to secure agreement on Suez Canal operations but all were ultimately fruitless. Port Said had been overrun and the military assessment was that the Suez Canal could have been completely taken within 24 hours. For a brief period in the 1880s, it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man behind the Suez Canal, started a Panama Canal Company in 1880 that went bankrupt in 1889 in a scandal. Then in late 1951, the 1st Battalion was deployed to Cyprus and in February 1952, the battalion deployed to the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt. The Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, strengthened the Ottoman decision to remain in Yemen. Aden was at this time The port lies about equidistant from the Suez Canal, Mumbai, and Zanzibar, which were all important British possessions. Show More Sentences The Russian fleet was barred from using the Suez Canal and British ports as a result of the incident. He nationalised the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956, prompting the 1956 Suez Crisis. The Suez Canal continued to be swept by aircraft, for instance. A small flow of European immigrants came with the opening of the Suez Canal, which cut the travel time between Europe and the Philippines by half. And neither can they be trusted not to hold siege to the Bab El Mandeb strait that not only connects the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean but is also a link to Suez Canal. On 26 August 2014 a proposal was made for opening a New Suez Canal. Rami announced the implementation of an integrated plan to promote the opening ceremony of the new Suez Canal Axis, and to utilise the event in support of incoming tourism. Hostilities in the Middle East which interrupted traffic through the Suez Canal contributed, as did nationalization of Middle East oil refineries. The voyage followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Panama Canal, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea route in a westerly direction. Until 1956, tankers were designed to be able to navigate the Suez Canal. Disputes with Egypt, who banned Israel-bound shipping from the Suez Canal and blockaded the Gulf of Aqaba, pertained to the al-Auja Demilitarised Zone. Nasser's response was the nationalization of the Suez Canal. Britain reasserted its ownership in 1857 and erected a lighthouse there in 1861, using it to command the Red Sea and the trade routes through the Suez Canal. The origin of the alga in the Mediterranean was thought to be either as a migration through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, or as an accidental introduction from an aquarium. In 1869, the opening of the Suez Canal gave Malta's economy a great boost, as there was a massive increase in the shipping which entered the port. It called for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of all forces behind the armistice lines, an arms embargo, and the reopening of the Suez Canal, which was now blocked. In July 1956, Nasser unilaterally nationalised the Suez Canal. This, plus the opening of the Suez Canal, led to the decline of the great warehousing districts in London and elsewhere, and the elimination of many middlemen. By 2000, only 8 percent of the imported oil in Britain arrived via the Suez canal with the rest coming via the Cape route. Examples from Classical Literature They have also been linked to the ministry's emergency hotlines, ahead of the celebrations of the New Suez Canal project inauguration. Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza catered a dinner at the new Suez Canal opening ceremony earlier this month. Then he turned to the Bab al-Mandeb, the chokepoint for shipping at the southern end of the Red Sea leading to the Suez Canal. You were Lord Radley's secretary, weren't you, when the Government bought the Suez Canal shares? The boat was now somewhere south of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia. He was the head of a great House of Straits Arabs, but as loyal a subject of the complex British Empire as you could find east of the Suez Canal. He ended by finding his way to the West by the Suez Canal route in the usual manner. De Lesseps had finished the Suez Canal and was examining Panama. A military spokesman said that rescue teams from Suez Canal Authority and Red Sea Ports Authority put out the fire and rescued all 13-member crew. Find more words! 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