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The response I got when I said as much in New York magazine recently showed that this really struck a chord with men.

As he ran through the front door the millstone jumped down and struck him dead.

The trouble was that this long-standing benefit had been struck down by the Supreme Court in June as discriminatory.

NATO indicated Tuesday it had struck four military sites to destroy missile launchers, radar and a vehicle storage facility.

And it suddenly struck me that she had grown so delicate-looking, so thin, that her face was pale, her lips were white.

It struck me as I spoke that this was rather ungrateful of me, after having received such a fine present.

They had not been married for many weeks when that man's brother saw her and was struck by her beauty.

When it struck up a familiar waltz tune I decided to invite him for a dance.

He made signs to the old woman, but she took up a stick, and struck his horse and drove them away.

With a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets' harps, fair woman!

While he struck MacDonald on the head with the bat, two men in civilian clothes attacked him from the front, simultaneously.

But after the storm struck layoffs, unfortunately, was driven out of Larry Crow worked for more than twenty years of his store.

His spade struck against something heavy, which proved to BE gold, a great heap which some miser had probably buried in a time of alarm.

With such suspicions to the fore of his thinking, it is hard to see how a deal based necessarily on mutual trust could ever be struck.

One of a pair of round metal cymbals attached to the fingers and struck together for rhythm and percussion in belly dancing.

As he began to speak, a bullet struck him in the mouth and came out at the back of his head.

Mr Obama met survivors and was attending a memorial service in the small town of Joplin, where the tornado struck a week ago.

As I stared at that ancient fragment, it struck me afresh how tangible Jesus' love was for His mother and friend.

Every now and then, too, there came little sparks and lightnings, as though the sun had struck upon bright steel.

She hasn't always been lucky with her boy-friends but she seems to have struck gold this time.

The procession is an annual event in support of the Palestinian people, and the bomber struck as he passed through a crowded market area.

But the Bank of Japan, after intervening directly to weaken the yen in September, has struck upon a more benign response.

On that view, it was unsurprising that the Supreme Court last month struck down a law that made it a crime to sell videos of dogfights.

Headhunting (contrary to its slimy reputation) struck me as being just as worthwhile as teaching or nursing but without the dismal salary.

One customer, described by the witnesses as in his mid-70s, grabbed one of the guns and struck Mr. Harvey in the head with it.

One day, while he was working on his plans near the river, a boat struck the dock on which he was standing.

The problem the world leaders faced was that they were grappling with subjects that had little resonance with most recession-struck voters.

Fulbright sat down on a pile of feed bags stacked on the floor and struck up a conversation.

Meanwhile, the recipient stares at his screen as if the office had been struck by lightning.

Witnesses reported that when he was struck, he never looked up from the book in his hand.

Besides, it struck him as a little absurd to allude to the matter.

When she went diving in a cage next to sharks, she said, she was more struck by the animal's movements than the danger.

Even though I had heard those songs a thousand times, each note struck me as if it was new.

I knew not how time passed till the thunderstone had struck the temple, and a pain stung me through the heart.

Backed by wealthy investors like Hicks, and tapping into a huge fan base all over the world, Premier League clubs have struck gold.

Finally, Sonia took the box from her mother's hands, struck a flame and handed the match to her mother.

As she had been taught to do, Kay struck her breast lightly with her clenched hand, the stroke of repentance.

But later reports by Xinhua said the supposedly stalled train was under way when it was struck by the other train.

As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.

The prince Mamilius, hearing his mother was to be tried for her life, struck with grief and shame, and suddenly died.

In the last decade, we have struck out on our own again as Brooks England, following a new course that honours the company's heritage.

But then I was struck by sadness to think of the death of my son - if he was alive, he would have been there to celebrate.

You're charming, got everybody star-struck. I know how you always seem to go for the obvious instead of me, but get a ticket and you'll see.

Nearly a week after the Haiti earthquake struck, tens of thousands of victims are still waiting for aid, despite huge international efforts.

Blogger David, a national serviceman in his 20s, said the fact that people can be arrested "for voicing their opinion" struck fear into him.

If it had struck a highly populated area, the deaths would have numbered in the millions, and the injuries even more.

The fact that they have struck as dramatically as they have as late in the game is a bit of a minus.

as i walked across the short stone bridge over the narrow moat and headed towards the entrance , it struck me that i had been there before.

But the woman failed to turn up to court and the magistrate struck out the case.

But even some of his critics have been struck by the graciousness with which he is handing on power to Barack Obama.

I was shocked to see me, but she seems to be taken for granted, but it struck lower part of the body.

I struck at him on his head.

She said her client said he was joking around and he struck Sir Alex while shadow boxing.

He did not know he was so hard struck; that knowledge would come later, and never go.

And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God; and he was eaten by worms and expired.

Over the last few weeks I have been struck by the number of times that words in our worship have felt a bit inappropriate, a bit dodgy.

It may have struck our students as a bit odd that so far no one has used a business card (also called a name card or calling card).

Had lightning struck at my feet, I would not have been more appalled than by what I read.

Watching "Rebirth, " she was struck by all the different ways that people suffer and all the ways they get through it, she said.

And what struck me so extraordinary was to be again with the Inuit -- a people who don't fear the cold but take advantage of it.

But he refused to turn aside. So Abner struck him in the belly with the back end of his spear.

And on Thursday, a man I was interviewing was struck in the head by an assassin's bullet and collapsed at my feet.

And a black monster is lying in the yard, and it struck at me with a wooden club.

Hollywood suggests glamour, a place where the young star-struck teenagers could, with a bit of luck, fulfill their dreams.

I hadn't realized how much I missed big-city life after being struck out here in the boonies for so long.

It is a place where the young star-struck teenagers could, with a bit of luck, carry out their dreams.

He lightly struck another match and let his cigarette dangle from the corner of his mouth.

The question that had been disturbing Pierre all that day, since the Mozhaisk hill, now struck him as perfectly clear and fully solved.

When the bullet struck just a few inches above his head, i couldn't help saying to myself: a miss is as good as a mile.

She was struck by his story and by the youthfulness of a picture that accompanied the text.

When the recession struck, hitting revenue in Texas just as it did everywhere else, that illusion was bound to collapse.

And went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews! " And they struck him in the face.

It never struck me how illogical it was to say that I believed in what I could not understand and what is in fact unintelligible.

It struck a chord with many Romanians who saw in it a symbol of the injustices of post-communist society.

Mr. Willingham was riding out of the mine in a rail car at the end of his Monday shift when the explosion struck.

Something struck him in the chest, and he gave a shout of surprise.

Lei died in 1962 at the age of 22, when a telephone pole, struck by an army truck, hit him while he was directing the truck in backing up.

The happy look in her big blue eyes struck him like the pain of an old wound.

Before Wen Xiang could finish, a streak of firelight suddenly struck at him from the darkness ahead.

To be star-struck and not to be able to do anything because you're too nervous is to waste the moment, instead of making the most of it.

Beethoven soon became famous. Then tragedy struck. He discovered that he was slowly becoming deaf . This was the great crisis of his life.

Mr. Godfreg struck me , strangely enough, as being like Mr. Franklin in this respect-that he did not seem to be in his customary spirit .

Then it struck me that anyone watching the train crashes on either side of the Atlantic should be asking something similar.

And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear.

When a strain of influenza with pandemic potential struck in April, it was generally referred to as "swine flu" .

If such a string of incidents had struck a company providing a service in almost any other industry, market share would have plummeted.

The most prominent image which struck me was that of Eidur Gudjohnsen trudging off the pitch in tears.

That was the bargain he struck in 2007, a bargain that would be hard to call Faustian: the end was clear from the beginning.

She sat down at the table and stared at him with scorn and amazement; sat heavily, as though she had been struck.

If you were of an observant turn it might have struck you that he blinked much less often than most of us.

To be star-struck and not to be able to do anything because you're too nervous is to waste the moment, instead of making the most of it.

Beethoven soon became famous. Then tragedy struck. He discovered that he was slowly becoming deaf . This was the great crisis of his life.

Mr. Godfreg struck me , strangely enough, as being like Mr. Franklin in this respect-that he did not seem to be in his customary spirit .

Then it struck me that anyone watching the train crashes on either side of the Atlantic should be asking something similar.

And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear.

When a strain of influenza with pandemic potential struck in April, it was generally referred to as "swine flu" .

If such a string of incidents had struck a company providing a service in almost any other industry, market share would have plummeted.

The most prominent image which struck me was that of Eidur Gudjohnsen trudging off the pitch in tears.

That was the bargain he struck in 2007, a bargain that would be hard to call Faustian: the end was clear from the beginning.

She sat down at the table and stared at him with scorn and amazement; sat heavily, as though she had been struck.

When a strain of influenza with pandemic potential struck in April, it was generally referred to as "swine flu" .

If such a string of incidents had struck a company providing a service in almost any other industry, market share would have plummeted.

The most prominent image which struck me was that of Eidur Gudjohnsen trudging off the pitch in tears.

That was the bargain he struck in 2007, a bargain that would be hard to call Faustian: the end was clear from the beginning.

She sat down at the table and stared at him with scorn and amazement; sat heavily, as though she had been struck.

If you were of an observant turn it might have struck you that he blinked much less often than most of us.

And, like many of the grief-struck, she fears for her own mental state: "Half the time, I think I must be totally out of my mind. "

At last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not surface. Instead, it Began to tow the skiff to the northwest.

He struck the butt of his rifle on the bottom of the scow with a species of defiance.

He struck into a laugh when we were talking seriously about the matter.

If you were of an observant turn it might have struck you that he blinked much less often than most of us.

And, like many of the grief-struck, she fears for her own mental state: "Half the time, I think I must be totally out of my mind. "

At last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not surface. Instead, it Began to tow the skiff to the northwest.

He struck the butt of his rifle on the bottom of the scow with a species of defiance.

He struck into a laugh when we were talking seriously about the matter.

Its willingness to dabble beyond its borders marked it out for suspicion when crisis struck and doubts about its foreign exposures grew.

At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.

He was still so young at that point (21) that I even think he might have been a little awe-struck at everything.

I also was struck by how much overlap exists between the sensory repertoires of single-origin chocolates and single-origin coffees.

I was struck immediately by the kindness and the gentleness in her face, and I asked her to tell me her story.

At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.

He was still so young at that point (21) that I even think he might have been a little awe-struck at everything.

I also was struck by how much overlap exists between the sensory repertoires of single-origin chocolates and single-origin coffees.

I was struck immediately by the kindness and the gentleness in her face, and I asked her to tell me her story.

Struck by his statistics on how television is seemingly more important than online advertising I decided to do some research.

Plastic Logic, the maker of a forthcoming e-reader device, said it had struck distribution deals with several magazines and newspapers.

Watching it, I was struck by how much the protagonist's story paralleled Nim's.

And with its huge pectoral fins and eyes still very visible, it struck me as sort of a crucifixion, if you will.

The jury decided that the blow was struck in a moment of panic and had not been premeditated.

As Zompro examined it under the microscope, he was struck by how much it resembled the exoskeleton he had just seen in London.

Watching it, I was struck by how much the protagonist's story paralleled Nim's.

And with its huge pectoral fins and eyes still very visible, it struck me as sort of a crucifixion, if you will.

The jury decided that the blow was struck in a moment of panic and had not been premeditated.

As Zompro examined it under the microscope, he was struck by how much it resembled the exoskeleton he had just seen in London.

He rose above the rampart ready to charge the enemy, but was instantly struck by a bullet.

During the Second World War, it is said, he soared into the sky to rescue an Italian pilot whose plane had been struck by enemy fire.

He said the boat was trying to outmaneuver the Israeli vessel when it was struck.

So in June, when Alabama passed the nation's most draconian anti-immigration law, it struck many observers as a bit of an overreaction.

Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped.

Despite tortuous negotiations in the run-up to the meeting, a binding legal agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions will not be struck.

He said the boat was trying to outmaneuver the Israeli vessel when it was struck.

So in June, when Alabama passed the nation's most draconian anti-immigration law, it struck many observers as a bit of an overreaction.

Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped.

Despite tortuous negotiations in the run-up to the meeting, a binding legal agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions will not be struck.

But just then the tree fell; and with a terrible crash it struck the good old man to the ground, where he lay unable to move.

It struck me that those questions did not trouble the Hebrews in the Sinai wilderness.

he made sure you were struck by lightning , or killed by a falling tree.

Mr Clare winced as if he had been struck. He went home pale and dejected, and called Angel into his study.

2 when struck out of the ball might be lost to ensure match speed players must play provisionally ball.

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

Mr Clare winced as if he had been struck. He went home pale and dejected, and called Angel into his study.

2 when struck out of the ball might be lost to ensure match speed players must play provisionally ball.

For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth.

The white eggshell had shattered where the egg had struck. Pieces of it had flaked away and what shone through was a dull yellow in color.

Earthquakes of similar magnitude have struck bigger cities in richer countries and claimed just a few dozen lives.

Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house.

When the storm struck, she was swept out to sea, clinging to a bit of wreckage.

as if this had been a concerted signal , the back door was struck rudely.

Then the King leaned gracefully down from his saddle, and struck Patroclus with his jeweled sword and knighted him on the spot.

I was struck by how much the brief interaction affected me.

Then the King leaned gracefully down from his saddle, and struck Patroclus with his jeweled sword and knighted him on the spot.

I was struck by how much the brief interaction affected me.

"Madame de Villefort wishes to remind you, sir, " he said, "that eleven o'clock has just struck, and that the trial commences at twelve. "

One of the gunman's first victims was an elderly man who was struck by the truck and shot in the head as he attempted to get up.

Star-struck crowds strain their necks for a glimpse of his wife.

If such a deal were to be struck between the UAW and Chrysler, GM and Ford would demand something similar.

John and his father stared at each other, struck dumb and still and with something come to life between them.

That evening, Mr. Yang smashed through the wooden door of his 63-year- old neighbor, Wu Wenguang, and struck him in the head with an ax.

She hastily struck a whole bundle of matches because she did so long to keep her grandmother with her.

She was almost struck by one of her own torpedoes. Trigger was awarded with a Presidential Unit Citation for that patrol.

As you know, catastrophe has struck our nation.

Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.

The Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

I was too star struck and afraid of Harrison Ford to talk to Calista, but you and I sat down and had a beer.

world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The disappointment was so deep, like a cut, it struck the fire in me to make sure that I never endure that type of pain again.

In the course of counseling hundreds of executives in transition, Seidel is often struck by how modest they are.

She had struck him as rather presumptuous-indeed it was a part of her charm.

The magnitude of his expectations and naive faith in her financial prowess struck Inna like a splash of cold water.

Everyone did as she asked except a tailor called Tom, who peeped through his window to see the lady pass. As he did so he was struck blind.

You know all the girls around here? We saw some real beauties. One of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt.

The 81-year-old Florida man fared better than Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, who was killed in 2006 when a stingray struck him in the heart.

For now, at least, the opponents of harsh sentencing seem to have struck out.

As you know, catastrophe has struck our nation. Has struck the world.

Speaking of food, when Ray Lesser was growing up in Cleveland, his mother and aunt, who lived down the street, struck a deal.

After we had been driven four or five miles, a raging wave struck us so furiously that it overset the boat at once.

As you roll over in the morning and see him lying next to you, you are struck with a great sense of contentment.

For the first time, it struck her as a ruse, or that he said it so that she would not think of asking for things.

She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before.

A balance must be struck between the national team and local teams in terms of benefits, so the latter "s enthusiasm is not dampened. "

Ashe thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fiber of his nature quiver.

One of China's wealthiest men is jumping to Japan's rescue in an attempt to aid both disaster-struck citizens and China's global image.

Suddenly he heard a sharp report and something struck the water smartly within a few inches of his head, spattering his face with spray.

Eric Cantor, G. O. P. congressman from Virginia and Republican chief deputy whip: It was almost as if panic had struck the capital.

Its tactics seem to have been copied from America, which in 2006 struck at online-gambling firms by threatening the banks that they used.

Sometimes it did not seem to matter where she struck him, though; sometimes he went where he would and took her with him.

Japan might be a rich country, but a week after the tsunami struck it is struggling to feed and house the victims adequately.

The thing that always struck me as I learned about the psychological theories of learning and development was the innocence of the child.

Since the earthquake struck a week ago, aid efforts have been primarily centered on the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

I'm struck by how similar his vocabulary is to that of a typical Chinese chief executive.

But he felt the rigidity of bone too and he struck the shark once more hard across the point of the nose as he slid down from the fish.

And so it had seemed in recent months, as commodity prices continued to climb even as disaster struck property, shares and bonds.

But, it struck me how much this dive, these deep dives was like a space mission.

As he came across the rotunda floor from his corridor he was struck by the evident youth of Aileen, even though he could not see her face.

Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly.

This resolution struck me as a slightly anti-social resolution, but I could see the sense of it.

At least 116 people are now known to have been killed by a tornado which struck the American city of Joplin in Missouri on Sunday evening.

The pillow struck the wall and burst, scattering stuffing everywhere just as Dolorous Edd Tollett poked his head through the door.

The movie offered a sympathetic portrayal of a woman struck by an inexplicable tragedy and then accused of an inexplicable crime.

When struck by an earthquake or typhoon, this was thought to flex and sway like the trunk of a pine tree in a storm.

and what light we had, seemed to come more from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping struck at a few reflected stars.

It struck me that there was no one at home.

But in every battle, the wielder was struck with a battle madness, a melancholy that would drive him alone into the midst of the enemy.

He took her on a trip to Lake Tahoe, and as the clock struck midnight, he gave her a huge diamond and asked her to be his wife.

Smith struck a match to light the fire and was to strike iron when he heard someone knock at the door.

She had not been married many weeks when that man's younger brother saw her and was struck by her beauty.

After a detour working in Shanghai for a U. S. pork producer that wanted to break into that market, Mr. Yu struck out on his own.

She came out of the warm shop at six and shivered as the wind struck her.

They struck a bargain with the landlord that they would look after the garden in return for being allowed to use it.

The child fell, struck his head against the door and cut it.

What struck me most at the time was that the gendarme officer who examined me offered me a cigarette.

The next day as the village clock struck twice, announcing the hour of noon, a bearded man came up the street toward the sheriff's office.

Yu said the officer struck him in the face, but he did not address the circumstances or specify when the alleged assault took place.

He struck a match and, lighting the gas, sat down in the dining-room without even greeting her.

Kucinich later told me that Addie Polk's predicament had struck a particular chord with him.

The Court struck down a state law under which husbands but never wives might be required to pay alimony.

She was struck by his respect for her children and his dedication to his job as a community worker. A few months later, they wed.

It struck him, and me, as exactly what I was trying to say.

I swear that his death was instantaneous, as if he had been struck by lightning.

But across the Pacific, it's as if the global economic forces that have pummeled Detroit never struck.

Share prices for both banks rose in London, even as they struck different tones about how the rest of the year may play out.

However, further reflection is possible at the front face of a structure when it is struck by the blast wave.

It was just days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans when four of the officers responded to a report of police coming under fire.

One night , his pregnant mother is struck by a flash of lightning, precipitating his birth . Unfortunately his mother dies soon after.

hand struck on what she . had been searching for in her handbag. Pulling up a long tube, she unrolled a map of the world.

He and his wife were having tea with a close friend when the earthquake struck that Friday afternoon.

There was a flash from the indoor wires as if lightening had struck.

Like Emerson, the younger man-deeply struck by a reading of Nature-began to keep a journal, from which he culled items for publication .

A fleck of paint struck a space shuttle in 1983 and chipped the windshield, which had to be replaced at a cost of $50, 000.

He muttered to himself in a way that struck ice into the soul of Jabez Stone .

Wood did not know the cause of the quarrel but struck for William.

shot (10 Off). A sitting puck when struck reacts as if it weights a ton. Tweak the shot action.

The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.

It would if it struck just as America's economy was slowing sharply and as weakness was afflicting both western Europe and Japan.

He first threw me some pieces of money, then struck me with a whip.

He never tanked , never ducked a commitment and struck every ball with serious intent. his work habits were equal to his talent.

I hadn't wanted to know her lovely secret; still coming upon it like this made me feel as though I'd struck a blow against her happiness.

John quit his job and struck out on his own as a traveling salesman.

It struck me that lasting change came from the bottom up and not from the top down.