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She was generous, amiable , interesting: she was everything but prudent . The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.

The sense of urgency is heightened by the fact that the ideal private banker of today is strikingly different from his predecessor.

The result can wrap itself around an object with a movement that strikingly resembles that of the original.

They were both striking, and strikingly like a luxed-up version of the designer's ready-to-wear.

She remained a strikingly handsome woman with a good figure and a strong face only lightly marked with beginning lines of age.

Note that the definition of an asset is strikingly similar to that of a pattern.

Overall, the tone of Mr Altman's book is strikingly gloomy about the future, except oddly for that of his own country.

Rape is often part of ethnic cleansing but it was strikingly absent here.

An inch taller than I, he had a lean, muscular frame, clear blue eyes, blond hair and a strikingly handsome face.

Mr Bernanke sat behind a rather large mahogany desk, looking strikingly as though he were about to bang out a tune on an upright piano.

Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused.

Though still youthful and strikingly petite, his tussled hair has greyed and his lips purse tightly as if against a lifetime of indignities.

I made a lot of fun of him early on but that was because his TV persona was so strikingly different from the person I knew.

If the court's decision had been broadly expected, this was a strikingly liberal argument.

However, land-plant chloroplasts have a strikingly different thylakoid membrane organization to that of cyanobacteria.

One of the many oddities of the current joyless economic recovery is that this traditional enthusiasm is strikingly lacking.

Strikingly, several key regulators are used for different developmental processes, and common mechanisms can be recognized.

In terms of new developments in detecting non-responders, there has not been anything strikingly new.

With many strikingly characters, profit-making universities in the United States attract the attentions all over the world.

In recent years some of the most strikingly beautiful parts of the territory have been incorporated into American Samoa National Park.

Strikingly, they have continued to lose weight (around 700g over the year), whereas the other participants have put it back on.

She creates psychologically intense genre scenes of the world around her with lyrical simplicity and a strikingly vivid palette.

Bad Moon warriors wear strikingly patterned clothing and shocking war paint designed to terrify the enemy.

But then the chipmunk population increased strikingly due to two successive years of abundant acorn crops in the forest.

Strikingly, they have continued to lose weight (around 700g over the year), whereas the others have put it back on.

It has been concluded that the sum of the kinetic energy of the ball and the rotational energy of the bar is strikingly unconservative.

"Mama stated there'd be days like this, " are strikingly honest lyrics that should be the introduction to the single dad's national anthem.

Those images of what became known as the Orange Revolution are strikingly similar to those from Egypt and Tunisia in recent weeks.

I turned around and saw a young man: slim, in a white robe with a white embroidered hat. He was strikingly handsome.

The men have told him strikingly similar stories of disenchantment.

Strikingly colored, an adult king penguin stands out in a sea of chicks on South Georgia Island.

When the large painting was shown to the public, thousands of people paid money to see its strikingly real style.

Tom was strikingly different the next day--quiet, LIMP, calm like honey.

Even more strikingly, some wild animals appear to understand and use numerical facts without training.

Just as strikingly, the decline of empire has repeatedly coincided with intolerance and xenophobia.

Most strikingly, the ISI is now rumoured to be behind efforts to arrest more Americans.

It's strikingly similar to a previous "framed vase" design we published some months ago, but it's unique in it's shape and execution.

Chinese consumers are clearly willing to embrace a strikingly gaudy facet of western culture as well.

The proximate causes of these busts have been varied, but follow a strikingly similar path.

Strikingly handsome, it is the only eagle native solely to North America, and it has been the U. S. national bird since 1782.

Quantum teleportation is one of the research directions which is developed most strikingly in the fields of quantum informatics.

A man in formal Japanese attire stands in front of a strikingly tall woman in a dark kimono.

The country's cosmopolitan capital, Lisbon, on the broad estuary of the Tagus, is one of the most strikingly situated cities in the world.

As they crawl out of the wreckage, the man sees the woman is blonde and strikingly beautiful.

Food safety involves many factors, biological origin factor accounts for a strikingly high pro- portion, great danger.

The original business license should be placed strikingly at the abode of the business corporation.

And yet it's strikingly difficult to impose a carbon price in practice.

Recent political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East strikingly coincided with rising food prices as well.

Most strikingly, the captain personally interviews alleged drug dealers and corrupt politicians of the old regime, live on television.

Offering a strikingly one-sided account, government organs depicted the protesters as a Christian mob that had assaulted the army.

The output in XML format looks strikingly similar to what you saw in Listing 2 with some notable exceptions.

Cook tomato sauce in an iron pot for three hours, and its iron content increases strikingly.

The result is a world that looks strikingly different from the bountiful global grain economy of the last century.

While these are indeed excellent games (or so people have said), one can't help but to notice the strikingly familiarity between them all.

But both have agreed to be acquired by Sinochem, China's largest chemicals trader, in strikingly similar deals.

The system is speech-operated rather than touch-tone operated, and the persona's voice is strikingly responsive.

Arguably, middle school students allowance should be enough, but the results of the survey strikingly different.

The strikingly beautiful blue marlin is the largest of the Atlantic marlins and one of the biggest fish in the world.

Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news.

These flavors come together for a strikingly rich, mouth-coating black fruit, and animal impression.

European technocrats tend to have strikingly similar credentials.

Very rarely have I seen such a strikingly beautiful woman!

tropical American and east African tree with strikingly marked hardwood used in cabinetwork.

Yesterday he saw a strikingly beautiful girl on the street. He felt his spirit had left the body at that moment.

With the deeper of the research and academic excellence of du fu, a deeper analysis of the work time strikingly articles, etc.

He was strikingly beautiful and great company but he had an uneasy relationship with food.

Strikingly, the financial conglomerate is paying slightly higher interest on its five-year debt than Lehman or Bear Stearns.

Strikingly, Asia-Pacific overtook Europe for the first time in terms of the number and combined wealth of millionaire investors.

It was strikingly designed as a bubble of blue plastic that enclosed both the monitor and the computer.

A comparison of the banking sectors leads to a strikingly similar conclusion.

Central sleep apnea has a strikingly higher prevalence in patients with congestive heart failure, and has adverse prognostic implications.

The main result for intrinsic motivation in Rwanda was strikingly similar to the result obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda combined.

But strikingly, metastases of most carcinomas recapitulate the organization of their primary tumours.

The result indicated that the modification, which happens on the edges of bentonite, strikingly enhanced their adsorption of cobalt ions.

As technicians try to improve battery assembly, the first requirement is a strikingly clean work environment.

So far the revolts of 2011 have been strikingly free of Islamist, anti-imperial and even anti-Israeli ideology.

But economists have been strikingly incurious about what those cognitive short-cuts actually are.

Fine clothes added to his strikingly handsome appearance .

Strikingly, the authors contend that "dirty elections are bad for economic growth by skewing politicians' incentives. "

A chart, produced by the authors, shows how these increases in free choice and subjective well-being are strikingly related.

Dr Mathiak noted that the responses in his gamers were thus strikingly similar to the neural correlates of real aggression.

Its leader, Fausto Bertinotti, is a strikingly patrician figure (a habitual feature of Italian proletarianism).

Using growth in GDP per head rather than crude GDP growth reveals a strikingly different picture of other countries' economic health.

"Laozhang, the landlord of this rented house, the way he died is strikingly similar to the last one" .

Both birth and death rates are strikingly different between the two groups of countries.

From his poem, we know that the woman was strikingly beautiful and enjoyed a higher social status than Qu Yuan himself.

I seen such a strikingly beautiful woman!

strikingly The two experiments produced strikingly different results.

The business groups are nimble decision-takers and have proved strikingly successful at seizing opportunities in other emerging markets.

There is no question that chimpanzees experience pain, stress and social isolation in ways strikingly similar to the way humans do.

Strikingly, more Catholics than non-Catholics supported cohabitation by unmarried couples.

To a normal person, at first glance, the two leading smartphone platforms -- Apple's iPhone and Google's Android -- are strikingly similar.

Two recent studies have reached strikingly different conclusions about how Italy compares with other countries.

The authors compared gay and straight male sexuality, and found they were strikingly similar.

Korean hanbok is strikingly beautiful, and Chinese women enjoy it as a costume.

Gaillard notes all vote down the taste of rival pods, often using strikingly similar language.

In other ways, Japan is still strikingly Western-oriented.

These days, the two island states are in the throes of domestic crises, but they are tackling them in strikingly different ways.

"The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" , a role-playing game released in March, also includes strikingly lifelike physics.

When her teeth grew in she was quite strikingly beautiful.

In addition to the climbing being different, the food was strikingly different as well.

As is so often the case with political martyrs, Bouazizi means strikingly different things to different people.

Ruled by Venus, the goddess of beauty and desire, you are strikingly attractive, in a somewhat statuesque way.

Then the woefully inadequate provision of health care to the masses of poor people becomes strikingly clear.

Brides-to-be are strikingly similar the world over: happy, hopeful and eager to start a family.

Of a strikingly odd or unusual character ; strange .

her counterpart's spare environs, replete with exotic flora and fauna, are likewise strikingly depicted.

Su Shi also created a strikingly new style in the song lyric genre that departed from contemporary popular banquet songs that.

The tea parties, remember, also started with little more than a (strikingly ungrammatical) cry of pain.

What's new is the marked heightening of tension as China has adopted a strikingly assertive neighbourhood policy.

Even more strikingly, inequality has at last begun to yield.

The object model is strikingly flexible, fully reflective, wide open, and extremely powerful.

Bogart and Hemingway never met , but their personal lives and creative work were strikingly similar .

But many banks have splashed out during the crisis, with strikingly varied results.

The properties and methods available in the MediaPlayer class are strikingly similar to those of the MediaElement control.

Most strikingly, J Street has outspokenly called for Israel and its American friends to engage with Hamas.

In its aftermath, the differences between the developed and emerging economies look stark, and in 2011 they will be strikingly clear.

This goes part way towards explaining why some groups now appear strikingly more endangered than before.

Moreover, the deal Ms Gillard has struck with the independents is strikingly minimalist.

America's global hegemony has been strikingly more benign than that of its predecessors.

His prediction about the Iraq war back in 2002 has proved strikingly prescient.

Notice that the document in Listing 1 looks strikingly similar to the original Really Simple Syndication format.

Less happily, perhaps, the guides yield some strikingly different rankings.

This is because, in defining structure, the format of a CAM document is strikingly similar to an XML instance.

The side of the moon facing the Earth and the side facing away have strikingly different topographies.

Such frustrations are strikingly similar to Chinese complaints about the travails of doing business in India.

By the work above, the practice ability of graduates has been improved strikingly.

bizarre, adj, Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd.

When they merge, the language used and rationales offered are strikingly similar to those that accompany big corporate M&A announcements.

Some even blame the lack of mojo on the country's aging population, or its strikingly mediocre politicians.

Most strikingly, the device's internal battery can last half an hour before it needs recharging.

Strikingly, the compound also reversed hepatic fibrosis.

The model left banks with strikingly few alternatives in a crisis.

But with Chinese volunteers, the results were strikingly different.

Strikingly, these traits were passed on to their daughters, who in turn also had more children.

Americans on the east and west coasts have strikingly different business styles.

The breakage frequencies in the extinct species were strikingly higher than those in the present-day species.

Never showing off, it stands out strikingly among much more colorful peers.

galadriel and celeborn complement each other , but neither is strikingly superior to the other.

Among those who keep track of slightly less high-profile missing-person cases, the story will be strikingly familiar.

And by European standards all three candidates are strikingly willing to sanction the use of force.

Both foreign and, more strikingly, domestic investment are very low compared with China.

Rodchenko's techniques were so strikingly original they became synonymous with his name.

Then Porter makes a strikingly simple observation: women figure quite differently in 18th-century Chinese art.

But while the problem of access to medicines is nothing new, the context today is strikingly different than in the past.

But from a financial perspective, they're strikingly similar.

Strikingly, all are white collar workers and most have studied or worked abroad.

It is strikingly common for young Israelis to start businesses with friends that they met in the army.

Because these sound changes were so strikingly regular and law-like, they became collectively as Grimm's Law.

Along with the strikingly rapid advancement in science, more and more attention starts to be paid to the interdisciplinary studies.

For five minutes, ten minutes, an hour, it is gleefully fun, strikingly audacious.

Although even the official media wanted more details of spending plans, the government-set agenda was strikingly sparse.

Mr Niel points out that mobile-phone prices are strikingly similar in France.

Nathaniel Branden gives a strikingly true example: if we had a guest in our house, and he spills a drink on the carpet, how would we react?

I'm not sure I've ever met a more strikingly intimate couple than the Chandlers.

The three men, strikingly different in background and style, embody the fissures reflected in Tuesday's vote.

But strikingly similar remarks have been made in recent months by wealth managers, including many at private banks.

Yet our politics has become strikingly coy about expressing these mottled truths.

Much of Mr Obama's rhetoric is strikingly conservative, even Reaganesque.

Adonis n. A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite .

When astronomers got their first glimpses of the moon's far side, however, they saw a strikingly different landscape.

Strikingly, about 80% of the cell's DNA showed signs of being transcribed into RNA.

These adjectives apply to what is very strange or strikingly unusual.

The use of the condom increased strikingly in many countries following the recognition of HIV and AIDS in the 1980's.

An individual resembling this one (i. e. strikingly pale greyish below) was in Chi Gu in late May 2005, now several years ago.

Most strikingly, the pre-1870 group of mothers of twins actually lived longer than those who were not thus blessed.

Valid instance documents for the same message look strikingly similar to each other.

Marmosets are dainty animals with luxurious fur, which is sometimes strikingly colored.

The size of the factory is strikingly big!

Strikingly, by about three to one, Americans feel their country is on the wrong track.

The experimental conclusion is indicated rather strikingly in the Fourier plot of Fig. 223.

The judge's ruling "is strikingly good news, " Garrett said.

Across from Jerry is a strikingly beautiful woman.

Strikingly, of the 90 farmers, few are men. The rest are women.

That strikingly flat line is down to the Fed's engineering.

On UIs it can sometimes be seen that the same control, e. g. a push button, looks strikingly different on backgrounds of different colors.

Strikingly, the tax rate on the wealthy has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

The query-managers API is strikingly simple.

We use strikingly little information in the process.

To people who are familiar only with the common European languages the Chinese language is strikingly different.

Strikingly often, they come from regions with strongly independent identities, such as Catalonia or Wales.

Strikingly, 45% of Americans now think the country is on the right track, up from a miserable 15% before Mr Obama was elected.

A strikingly similar case happened in China's northeastern port city of Tianjin, an elderly woman filed a lawsuit against Xu Yunhe.

On the other hand, the discipline education system "s imperfect contrasted strikingly and sharply with it" s prosperous view.

The picture is strikingly different as regards physical capital (buildings and equipment).

As the Jerusalem Post has observed, Breivik's manifesto is not only fiercely anti-Islamic but also strikingly pro-Israeli.

This is most strikingly seen in this chart plotting U. S. , Chinese and Indian shares of world output.

Strikingly, less than 400 of America's 3, 141 counties switched parties at the 2008 election.

In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy.

Yet they vary strikingly in tone.

US real rates also remain strikingly low, at just over 1 per cent.

Strikingly, Asia's emerging economies see science and technology as essential for long-term economic development.

Ordinary Turks now have a strikingly low opinion of America.

An "idiot savant" is an individual who is a genius in a particular skill, but strikingly deficient in all other skills.

Strikingly, however, people in China's richest provinces already report lower levels of happiness than those in the poorer areas.

Most strikingly, they don't hold a lot of stocks.

But the study's bigger message is that autism is too strikingly individual to envision an easy gene test for it.

It shaped a new generation of people who are strikingly different from their parents.

If this is the implicit trade-off, it is a strikingly bad bargain.

Though he is drawing from the whole history of the development of economics, the text ends up being strikingly original.

'The decision-making mechanisms in nervous systems and insect societies are strikingly similar, ' said the study in the journal Science

it is this high degree of " determinancy " that most strikingly differentiates such music from , for example , a popular song.

Bone resorption induced by parathyroid hormone is strikingly diminished in collagenase-resistant mutant mice

one of the most strikingly attractive regions in Britain

the race became physically and mentally gruelling , strikingly beautiful and spectacular

The setting, under the dome of the old British Museum reading room, is strikingly exploited with ghostly lighting and deep shadows;

Novel applies to what is both new and strikingly unusual:

most strikingly , girls were virtually ignored

a. strikingly grand or unusual

From the review of events I have just provided, I think we can conclude that WHO is effective, sometimes strikingly so, in some areas.