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The U. S. has arrived at the point where poverty could be abolished easily and simply by a stroke of the pen.

By a stroke of luck the planets that gathered together in April are still having such a good time, they decided to stay together longer!

The inheritance came out of the blue as a stroke of good fortune.

Using decision trees in expert systems is nothing new, but applying that idea to a crowdsourcing model might possibly be a stroke of genius.

Britney, * 22, used just such a stroke of genius during a dinner party, when she was swooning over the guy sitting next to her.

His mother's blindness before she died had terrified him and his own eye infection had been a stroke of doom.

At this point, certainly, falling in love and getting married may be less a matter of choice than a stroke of wild great luck.

With a stroke of her razor-sharp pen, Chua has set a whole nation of parents to wondering: Are we the losers she's talking about?

The arrow had been shot by a poacher which had been hunting a stag. What a stroke of luck!

However, with a stroke of the presidential pen, Mr Bush has bypassed all the expected wrangling over the area's management and use.

They went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke of magic, the secret was discovered.

Before the French Revolution, criminals sentenced to death were burnt at the stake , hanged , or decapitated with a stroke of a sword.

Was that McNealy's fault for not preparing the transition better or simply a stroke of bad luck?

By a stroke of luck, Ayn (it rhymes with "mine" ) encountered legendary director Cecil B. DeMille on her secondday in town.

In what occurred as a stroke of bad luck, my boyfriend (now husband) needed to go back to Florida to continue his flight training.

Yet without a stroke of luck, George Foreman, would have left that billion dollar product on the shelf. It begs the question. . .

His gamble turned out to be a stroke of political genius.

But it was only a stroke of fate. Nobody could be blamed for it.

By a stroke of his pen, President Obama made a federal agency the world's largest venture capitalist.

Well, at least as simple as seeing a stroke of precious sunlight can keep us happy.

But he might not have got far had it not been for a stroke of luck.

We also had a stroke of luck in the league games, but that has deserted us in the last few weeks.

This idiom satirizes those who just wait for a stroke of luck, rather than making efforts to obtain what they need.

You could do it with a stroke of the pen.

It was spring before I managed to escape from the penitentiary, and then only by a stroke of fortune.

In a stroke of imaginative creativity, we name the object identifier column OID and specify that its values will be user generated.

Could Judith's recent job loss also be a stroke of great luck?

He dashed off a late application, where by a stroke of luck it was fielded and accepted by Mr. Dodd.

I just had a stroke of inspiration, why don't we ask Duran for a ride!

By a stroke of sheer good luck, he was called upon to accompany the President.

It was a blow, but now he had a stroke of luck.

It was a stroke of luck that I found you here.

The 18th, put on your thinking cap (especially at work), and the 22nd, prepare yourself for a stroke of good fortune.

But in 1979 he was in Kabul when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and this was a stroke of luck.

But it descends with sudden force Like a stroke of lightning.

There was a stroke of irony in his tone.

By a stroke of scientific serendipity, they are also, indirectly, lending a hand to oceanographers interested in whales.

i'm so thankful that we met. it was really a stroke of luck that i was there in the cafe that day.

And then I realized what a tremendous gift this experience could be, what a stroke of insight this could be, to how we live our lives.

For the last five years, so it seems, he hasn't done a stroke of work, hasn't turned over a penny. Business has gone to smash.

Never, though, have any of my very best ideas come to me all at once in anything resembling a stroke of genius.

The joker was choked by a stroke of smoke for his undue provoking.

A stroke of lightning shattered their mast, which in its fall killed the pilot .

By a stroke of fortune, he found work almost immediately.

By a stroke of luck, the temperature at night suddenly dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius and the marsh froze over.

It has been said, and justifiably so, that mirrors are spiritual the reflection itself being a stroke of wit .

Similarly China's rulers can switch national budgetary priorities in a heartbeat, spending trillions on stimulus with a stroke of a pen.

By a stroke of fortune, he won the competition.

Think of it this way: Congress could, with a stroke of a pen, cut Social Security benefits in half.

Your idea was a stroke of genius!

He is a stroke of luckthat gets there at the last minute.

A stroke of fate hit those nine persons in their sleep.

This really is a stroke of genius, though I have seldom met anyone who ever manages to follow it.

The streets are filled with parades of elaborate floats, there's lots to eat and drink and nobody does a stroke of work.

And what a stroke of luck that Linux was already ported to MIPS hardware.

A stroke of genius " put forward by YIN Fan in Heyueyinling Anthology of Poems is the highest criterion in poetry writing. "

My take is that Apple's bet on vertical integration, which seems anachronistic, is actually a stroke of genius.

He thinks it is a lousy idea to try terrorists in civilian courts, where a judge could "release them with a stroke of a pen" .

Yes, Pottermore. com is a stroke of genius.

What a stroke of luck to meet you here!

he's taken to drink and never does a stroke of work.

In a stroke of a pen, a law allowing foreign ownership of Chinese banks made the oldest foreign-owned bank unholdable by its foreign owners.

The act or a stroke of daubing.

A stroke of luck.

What a stroke of luck!

That idle boy hasn't done a stroke of work.

With a stroke of a sword

e. g. with a stroke of the pen

A stroke of a pendulum

A stroke of heart attack

e. g. a stroke of genius

Not do a stroke of work