The chokepoint is patrolled 24 hours a day by armed guards, resulting in lower local crime but a sharp spike in vehicle traffic. |
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Water seeps in from the roof and the sides, and trains still have to move achingly slowly through the chokepoint. |
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The latter chokepoint is particularly at risk as tension with Iran mounts over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. |
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And, crucially, the port would be a long way north and west of the potential chokepoint for shipping at the Strait of Malacca. |
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Now the chokepoint is, predictably, the airfield at Port au Prince, which lost its air traffic control equipment. |
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Half the world's maritime piracy involves Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden, a chokepoint for much of the world's seaborne cargo. |
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This wire, whether it's the coaxial cable in cablevision or in twisted pair in DSL, that is the critical chokepoint that determines what you are able to do and experience on the Internet. |
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