| About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide. |
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| As I settled into the backseat of the cozy sedan, Frank struck up conversation. |
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| Still, the news about bales struck particularly close to home for the 27-year-old mother of three. |
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| More recently, Baugh headed out in his truck to do what he could when Hurricane Sandy struck the city. |
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| He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy. |
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| Every agreement he struck with Bertie was dishonoured, and it bothered him, and he would talk about it. |
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| It struck me that Charles has, albeit unwittingly, accelerated the tendency for the bad to drive out the good. |
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| One of those who fell suffered terrible injuries after being struck at close range by birdshot from a riot-squad shotgun. |
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| But this 1929 study of the modern world, his most famous book, struck me as hopelessly nostalgic and elitist. |
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| Press was struck that Wishnitzer was not the anti-establishment ideologue he imagined him to be. |
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| Bryant was famous for standing with his arms crossed, and a bullet had struck his armpit and pierced his chest. |
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| He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold. |
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| I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. |
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| And so the apparent solution struck at the RNC is to skip over the facts as if we all have the attention span of gnats. |
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| Still others, especially the percussion instruments, are struck by hammers that move when the air pressure changes. |
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| Amidst all of this build-up around the royal wedding, a note of hypocrisy was struck in recent days. |
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| Hundreds of trekkers were on the popular Annapurna Circuit in the Mustang area of Nepal when disaster struck last week. |
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| Librizzi has always struck me as an admirable man, rough-hewn as a New York cabbie. |
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| That fall he struck again, assaulting an 18-year-old college student who was babysitting three young children. |
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| Inniss believed that the bill was unconstitutional, and would soon be struck down by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. |
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| In 1922 it was struck by lightning and had to be dynamited down, but until that time it was in daily use. |
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| Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. |
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| At times when there was inadequate sunlight to focus through the lens, the king struck flintstones to ignite the flame in the same way. |
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| It struck Assumption Preparatory School, now the site of Quinsigamond Community College. |
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| He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. |
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| After a battle lasting three hours, Java struck her colors and was burned after being judged unsalvageable. |
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| Then in 1346, Europe was struck with the Black Death and the population was reduced by up to a half. |
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| This landscape was struck from the World Heritage list in 2009, due to the construction of a four lane highway across the Elbe. |
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| Illness struck the monastery in 664 and while Cuthbert recovered, the prior died and Cuthbert was made prior in his place. |
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| The City Council was considering whether to remove the stone in order to try and stop the bad luck which had struck the city. |
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| They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches. |
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| God took exception to this, and struck the stone with a thunderbolt, destroying the coffin and splitting the stone in two. |
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| It was badly damaged in the Great Thunderstorm of 1638, apparently struck by ball lightning during an afternoon service. |
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| She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light. |
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| They interrogate the innkeepers about a past order for meat that John has spotted, which struck him as odd for a vegetarian restaurant. |
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| He struck me as schemey and oleaginous from the first time I saw him, long before his disgraceful performances around the Iraq war. |
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| In delivering it forehanded, the ball is dropped in front of the left foot, and is struck when about a foot or even less from the ground. |
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| Two springs of clear water are said to have bubbled up after he struck the ground with his crozier. |
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| The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example. |
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| The only coins allowed by the Turkish government to be struck at Cairo are the Mahbub Sequins, and Medini. |
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| Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words. |
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| The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow. |
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| The residents of the city were commanded to look away as she rode, but one man did not and was allegedly struck blind. |
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| Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building. |
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| Falling from a horse without wearing a helmet is comparable to being struck by a car. |
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| The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness. |
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| St Johnstone's in-form strike force struck again as goals from Francisco Sandaza and Cillian Sheridan defeated Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. |
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| Several days later the two struck at Epping Forest, depriving a man from Southwark of his belongings. |
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| To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest. |
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| The doctor was struck off the UK Medical Register for professional misconduct. |
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| But the car amazed him. It kept going. And that too struck him as funny. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking. |
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| In the midst of our fun, a tremendous tatterara of the dining-room bell struck upon our hearts. |
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| Calvinism does not seem to have struck with Hilliard, but the fluent French he acquired abroad was later useful. |
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| He spotted her one evening in the Strand in 1865 and was immediately struck by her beauty. |
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| Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters. |
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| After my long absence, I was immediately struck by the unchangedness of the town. |
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| Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling. |
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| It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken. |
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| At the age of thirty, 13 May 1373, Julian was struck with a serious illness. |
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| As between clear, but inflexible rules on the one hand and flexible, but unguiding rules on the other, where should the balance be struck? |
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| The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left. |
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| This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting. |
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| As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other. |
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| Charles, who suffered from tuberculosis, died in 1826 after being struck by lightning during a rainstorm. |
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| It struck me as language borrowed from some bureaucratic circular. |
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| Craig Reid struck the United woodwork, while Boro goalkeeper Chris Day had to tip over a header from his own midfielder Michael Bostwick. |
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| The king has struck a deal with evil god Ahriman, who doesn't take long to unleash his dark and destructive power over the once peaceful land. |
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| Wills, too, was struck down by a pole but was saved because a warp in the wood bent upwards, creating a pocket for his body. |
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| Then, no one saw precisely how it happened, whiff-whaff, Lemoine's weapon flew from his hand and struck the wall with a whirr and a jangle. |
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| The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing. |
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| The group was on a mounted patrol when their Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle was struck. |
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| She sent them to Tolkien, who was struck by the similarity they bore in style to his own drawings. |
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| The Judge at Balbriggan District court, where the singer appeared, struck out the charges because of delays. |
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| Barillas was struck in the face by a comebacker in the first inning of Burbank's 6-1 win. |
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| The award surprised Lewis, but it also struck the right note. |
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| In his later years his uncompromising, personal style of composition struck many music lovers as too austere, and his brief popularity declined. |
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| Lundberg's comments struck a chord with Bee Young, who opened the Wickit Weedery dispensary on Main Street. |
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| About 100 times as many meteorites struck the Earth per year during the Ordovician compared with today. |
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| Sir, How FC Chapman's letter on 'neighbourhoods wimping out' struck a chord. |
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| Near Dayr Az Zawr, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL vehicle, it said. |
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| In Syria, a drone carried out one airstrike near Ar Raqqah, where it struck an ISIL tactical unit, the statement said. |
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| In Syria near Mar'a, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit, the announcement said. |
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| He struck a match, but the breeze from the window fan blew it out. |
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| The number of coins struck was small and English coins probably remained more significant in this period. |
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| I was standing in the background with her husband and I was struck at how word-perfect she was on any matter that arose. |
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| But struck by writer's block he is soon back in Arthur's favourite cafe, where he is stunned to learn that Arthur has written a book of his own. |
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| His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon. |
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| In 1624, a player called Jasper Vinall died after he was struck on the head during a match between two parish teams in Sussex. |
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| Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand. |
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| Later coins of a similar type were struck in Britain and are found all along the south coast as far west as Dorset. |
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| He struck the names of many senators and equites who no longer met qualifications, but showed respect by allowing them to resign in advance. |
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| Boasts or angle shots are deliberately struck off one of the side walls before the ball reaches the front. |
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| In particular, with five minutes gone, Bobby Charlton struck the post and sent another shot just wide. |
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| While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards. |
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| He was struck down with pneumonia early in 1973 and went to South Africa to recover, playing on loan for Roy Bailey's Cape Town City. |
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| More bad luck struck him in Spain where he kept pace with Prost for most of the race only for his engine to fail. |
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| A few corners later, the problem struck again, and Vettel ran off the track and subsequently retired, due to brake failure. |
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| There has even been a study that shows that oaks are more likely to be struck by lightning than any other tree of the same height. |
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| He had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation. |
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| Meanwhile, several states have either abolished or struck down death penalty laws. |
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| A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone. |
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| The Corps then prepared to capture two railway tunnels linking Maungdaw with the Kalapanzin valley but the Japanese struck first. |
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| More difficulties struck in 1083, when William's eldest son Robert rebelled once more with support from the French king. |
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| Many saw it as a punishment from God when Henry was later struck down with unknown but chronic illnesses. |
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| In April 2006, a man was killed on Slieve Donard after being struck by lightning. |
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| The backhandedness of the compliment suddenly struck him, and he squeezed his eyes shut at the gaffe. |
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| The first English coins to circulate in North America were struck in Bermuda. |
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| In 1348, the Black Death struck England with full force, killing a third or more of the country's population. |
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| Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash. |
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| Miners in the National Union of Mineworkers, led by Arthur Scargill, struck against the closure of collieries. |
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| In April 2017 an OSCE vehicle struck a mine, killing one member and injuring two. |
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| Two armoured vehicles were on patrol was near Luhansk when one struck the mine. |
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| Realizing that war was imminent, Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it. |
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| Once through the Kerch Strait, British and French warships struck at every vestige of Russian power along the coast of the Sea of Azov. |
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| He swerved wildly through the streets and struck a group of school girls, killing four of them. |
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| Eventually a deal was struck whereby Russian forces operated as a unit of KFOR but not under the NATO command structure. |
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| She was struck amidships, with devastating effect, ultimately killing 20 crew members and severely injuring 24 others. |
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| Disaster struck in a freak hailstorm on the encamped army, causing over 1,000 English deaths. |
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| And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades. |
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| British, French, Portuguese colonial interests struck treaties with these rulers, and established their trading ports. |
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| On 7 July 2005, a series of four suicide bombings struck London, killing 52 commuters, in addition to the four bombers. |
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| Roberts also struck up a literary relationship with Saunders Lewis, which they maintained through letters over a period of forty years. |
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| Cleaning and restoration were performed on each film when new 35mm prints were struck. |
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| A major plague epidemic struck the Mediterranean, and much of Europe, in the 6th century. |
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| They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship struck the iceberg. |
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| Digital 2D and in 2D IMAX versions were also struck from the new 4K master created in the process. |
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| In November 2011 Sony Computer Entertainment struck a deal with Sky to bring some of its shows to the PlayStation Store Video Store. |
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| In 1822 he was struck with paralysis, but recovered a fair degree of health, sufficient to enable him to resume his studies. |
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| Such was his popularity that two medals were struck in celebration of his acquittal. |
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| The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly, his weather-beaten face very grave. |
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| According to posts on WWP, the Anon who was struck did not want to have to namefag himself, which would have been necessary to press charges. |
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| Kirk and Wittgenstein struck up a friendship, with Wittgenstein giving him lessons in physics to help him pass a City and Guilds exam. |
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| It is not certain that the ball was being struck between members of the same team. |
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| The sliotar can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air, or struck on the ground with the hurley. |
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| When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks. |
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| A secret deal between Mountbatten and Congress leaders had already been struck. |
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| Following Raleigh's death, members of his family approached Boyle for compensation on the ground that Raleigh had struck an improvident bargain. |
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| Tiger sailed through Ocracoke Inlet on June 26, but it struck a shoal, ruining most of the food supplies. |
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| In 1658 he was struck by a sudden bout of malarial fever, followed directly by illness symptomatic of a urinary or kidney complaint. |
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| In the Netherlands, Voltaire was struck and impressed by the openness and tolerance of Dutch society. |
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| Upon coming ashore, Andrew struck the rocks with his staff at which point a spring of healing waters gushed forth. |
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| There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. |
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| Llywelyn turned to rejoin his forces and was pursued by a lone lancer who struck him down. |
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| A medal was struck and a triumphal column erected at Boulogne to celebrate the invasion's anticipated success. |
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| Tragedy struck when she died during childbirth in 1282, giving birth to a daughter Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn. |
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| The gold coins are of uncertain use but may have been struck to be used as alms or for gifts to Rome. |
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| Nothing definite is known about their use, but they may have been struck to be used as alms. |
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| Although many of the coins bear the name of a moneyer, there is no indication of the mint where each coin was struck. |
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| He was with his mother at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218, where his father died after being struck on the head by a stone pitched by a mangonel. |
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| Henry refused to attack the Church that had helped him to power, and the House of Commons had to beg for the bill to be struck off the record. |
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| Sheldon recorded 182,396 slightly wounded and sick soldiers not struck off unit strength, which if included would make 399,590 German losses. |
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| His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused, reddened. |
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| There is also a memorial on the cliff above the rocks where the ship struck, which is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. |
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| If, as seems likely, such a bombardment struck Earth at the same time, the first atmosphere and oceans may have been stripped away. |
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| Without Cromwell's backing of milled coinage, Peter Blondeau returned to France leaving England to continue minting hammer struck coins. |
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| They had a thick rim, and when struck with pieces of wood, gave out a tone deeper than that of some of the Great Toms renowned in belldom. |
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| Crowns, therefore, had a face value of 25p from decimalisation until 1981, when the last 25p crown was struck. |
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| After 15 September 1709 no further silver coins were ever struck in Scotland. |
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| She started singing a traditional song as she raised her hands and struck her dandiyas on the beat. |
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| An industrial recession struck the principality, and hurt South Wales in particular. |
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| A tragedy struck the club on 20 January 1969 when players Roy Evans and Brian Purcell were killed in a car crash on the way to a game. |
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| However, the derby game at Ninian Park was marred with controversy as referee Mike Dean was struck by a coin from a Cardiff City supporter. |
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| The defendant then struck the deceased with an axe which was an accident of availability. |
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| Toshack and Keegan struck up a successful partnership with Toshack winning balls in the air and Keegan finishing the knock downs. |
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| Bale further developed his reputation as a free kick specialist when he struck the post from one against West Bromwich Albion. |
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| In the first round, Hopkins struck him with a right hand, knocking him down. |
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| In the face of Keith's demands, Nelson reluctantly struck his flag and bowed to Emma Hamilton's request to return to England over land. |
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| A cannonball struck and killed Nelson's secretary, John Scott, nearly cutting him in two. |
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| The attack was made so unexpectedly that Garfield had no time to escape the oncoming spears, three of which struck him in the body. |
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| In the confusion Colonel Wellesley was himself struck on the knee by a spent ball, and narrowly escaped falling into the hands of the enemy. |
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| In 1883, a third company was formed, the Point of Ayr Colliery Company, and in 1890 they struck a seam. |
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| Just a few years before the latter earthquake, the island was struck by a ferocious plague. |
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| It is said that the mothers allowed their children to eat bread only when they had struck it off a post with the sling. |
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| A bomb also struck the Lords Chamber, but went through the floor without exploding. |
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| In 1846, when a famine struck Madeira over 6,000 of the inhabitants migrated to British Guiana. |
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| Evidence can still be seen of this today, with damage clearly visible on one of the doors where they were struck by Black Rod. |
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| This was in turn struck down by a referendum following the Fukushima nuclear accident. |
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| The visitors rallied again though and struck decisively 16 minutes from time when Yaya Toure headed in the winner. |
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| Copper or bronze coins were not struck, nor were gold except in Southern Europe. |
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| He began to fan her with his hat. That was successful, for he struck her nose with the brim of his derby and she opened her eyes. |
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| As the disaster struck on a Saturday night, many government and emergency offices in the affected area were not staffed. |
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| She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal. |
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| He stood in the middle of a narrow part of the road, stopped the horse, and struck Fyot with a heavy cudgel, leaving him for dead in the ditch. |
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| In 1755, the earthquake struck on the morning of 1 November, the holy day of All Saints' Day. |
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| The third fire struck during filming of The Who's concert in 1974, after which it was rebuilt once again. |
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| Many sounds we hear, such as when hard objects of metal, glass, or wood are struck, are caused by brief resonant vibrations in the object. |
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| During the confusion of battle, five more rounds were fired at Alabama after her colors were struck. |
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| According to Dudo, Rollo struck up a friendship in England with a king that Dudo calls Alstem. |
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| Philip moved south around the new defensive line and struck upwards at the heart of the Duchy, now facing little resistance. |
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| It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was floated toward the enemy, detonated by a sparking mechanism if it struck a ship. |
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| But on Tuesday morning it was crowded with players, some toting paddlelike bats, and filled with the sound of leather balls struck by wood. |
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| After spending many years in profoundly investigating this problem, I have at last struck bottom. |
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| My husband told me that when he was a lad of seventeen a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries. |
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| Lichtenberg figures are often seen on the skin of a person who has been struck by lightning. |
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| The Cape Hatteras area is infamous for being frequently struck by hurricanes that move up the East Coast of the United States. |
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| Destructive hurricanes struck frequently from 1926 to 1960, including many major New England hurricanes. |
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| The Magdalenian tool culture is characterised by regular blade industries struck from carinated cores. |
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| When the first pandemic finally struck in 1519 it wiped out much of the remaining native population. |
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| The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on. |
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| Iceland benefited from its relative isolation and was the last Scandinavian country to be struck by the Black Death. |
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| As Victoria was riding in a carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. |
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| Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman. |
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| Employing the same modus operandi, he struck her from behind and used a knife to slash her, this time above her buttocks. |
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| He struck her from behind and hit her on the head five times while she was walking along a country lane. |
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| Sutcliffe struck her twice with a hammer before stabbing her 15 times in the neck, chest and abdomen. |
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| For this he and Leibnitz, much about the same, struck out a fluxional method, which they both took for a demonstration. |
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| They were saved, however, by a sudden shower, which refreshed the Romans, while lightning struck the Quadi. |
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| From there they struck into the heart of Provence, ending with the capture of Avignon, despite strong resistance. |
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| We start with Catullus and Juvenal, and I'm struck by how modern it all seems, how piss-taking, undeferential, sly, sarcastic and satirical. |
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| Luigi Galvani, one of the pioneers of bioelectricity, discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. |
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| The treaty struck with the Goths was to be the first foedus on imperial Roman soil. |
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| The final blow was struck on 1 December, when Ukraine, the second most powerful republic, voted overwhelmingly for independence. |
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| After that time the hyperpyron nomisma continued as a unit of account, but it was no longer struck in gold. |
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| The idea of enslaving the Tainos had instantly struck Columbus as plausible, even desirable. |
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| When the others were struck ill, Estevanico continued alone, opening up what is now New Mexico and Arizona. |
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| At this point a powerful hurricane struck the boat and Talavera had to seek help from Ojeda. |
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| The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, who was struck by Rocket. |
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| A devastating leaf disease, Hemileia vastatrix, struck the coffee plantations in 1869, destroying the entire industry within fifteen years. |
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| The resultant gap was filled with copper tokens that approximated the size of the halfpenny, struck on behalf of merchants. |
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| The machine keeps an account of the number of pieces struck which cannot be altered from the truth by any of the persons employed. |
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| In August 2004, the Dry Tortugas were directly struck by Hurricane Charley. |
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| Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home. |
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| Some notable tornadoes have struck South Carolina, and the state averages around 14 tornadoes annually. |
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| In 1975 the Tasman Bridge collapsed when the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra. |
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| The Tatars struck a decisive blow on December 20, when a Cossack party of twenty men were discovered and slain. |
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| Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded. |
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| In contrast to the September 2010 quake, the February 2011 earthquake struck on a busy weekday afternoon. |
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| The inside of the tubes are coated with phosphors that give off visible light when struck by ultraviolet energy. |
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| An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. |
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| In August 1519, Zurich was struck by an outbreak of the plague during which at least one in four persons died. |
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| After the arc is struck, the internal resistance of the lamp drops to a low level, and the ballast limits the current to the operating current. |
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| Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact. |
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| In the case, a Miss Stone was struck on the head by a cricket ball while standing outside a cricket ground. |
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| A train approached, and in the darkness an object protruding from one of the cars suddenly struck Tompkins knocking him to the ground. |
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| They were one of the first Indian states to issue coins struck with their rulers embossed. |
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| In August 2008 large areas of Zimbabwe were struck by the ongoing cholera epidemic. |
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| Cobden consented, and at the meeting was much struck by Bright's short speech, and urged him to speak against the Corn Laws. |
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| The 38-year-old was struck down by a bout of potentially fatal altitude sickness on Sunday after scaling 12,000ft of the 19,341ft peak in Tanzania, East Africa. |
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| He said the bus struck a patch of black ice, or freshly formed ice as yet invisible on the road surface, just after he had passed a trailer truck. |
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| The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue. |
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| He changed up on Wilson after three fastballs and struck him out. |
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| I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed. |
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| They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. |
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| In Hillcrest, a restaurant customer was struck by two bullets and paralyzed from the waist down in a drive-by shooting committed by the husband of a waitress. |
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| A new idea of arrangement struck him while at breakfast, which quite altered his fore-constructed plan, and he began to act upon it as soon as conceived. |
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| Mr. Pinchot, wearing a long-haired fright wig, plays a guileless nut named Bobby McGee who has been struck by lightning and turned into a psychic. |
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| Borini missed another glorious opportunity to give his side the lead after brilliant set-up play by Sterling, but with only the exposed keeper to beat, he struck the post. |
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| When the swell struck, the North Shore got gnarly, and the wise ones hit the outer islands where the energy was just as juicy but a bit more organized. |
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| He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out. |
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| Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home. |
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| Bronzes of various metallurgical properties are widely used in struck idiophones around the world, notably bells, singing bowls, gongs, cymbals and other idiophones from Asia. |
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| Other sources stated that no one knew how Harold died because the press of battle was so tight around the king that the soldiers could not see who struck the fatal blow. |
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| Although he managed to kill the assassin, he was struck in the arm by a dagger feared to be poisoned, and became severely weakened over the following months. |
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| The plague struck various countries in the Middle East during the pandemic, leading to serious depopulation and permanent change in both economic and social structures. |
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| On 12 July Nelson was at one of the forward batteries early in the morning when a shot struck one of the sandbags protecting the position, spraying stones and sand. |
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| Nelson was struck by debris in his right eye and was forced to retire from the position, although his wound was soon bandaged and he returned to action. |
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| Parker claimed that Nelson had been supported by several more ships than he acknowledged, and that San Josef had already struck her colours by the time Nelson boarded her. |
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| The majority were struck in the reigns of emperors Constantius II and Julian and derive from a range of mints including Arles and Lyons in France, Trier in Germany, and Rome. |
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| Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck. |
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| In 1552, a new silver coinage was introduced, struck in sterling silver. |
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| The penny was the first of its denomination to be struck in copper. |
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| The electric arc is struck by touching the rods then separating them. |
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| They found afterward to their regret that he was the finest little old poker player that ever struck the village and he carried away a suitcase of yellow-backed bills. |
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| A Londonphile returning to live here after more than six years away in Moscow and Rome is struck at almost every turning by the ways, mostly subtle, she has changed. |
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| A cyclone that struck Bangladesh in 1991 killed some 140,000 people. |
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| While Edmund still called out to Christ, the heathen dragged the holy man to his death, and with one stroke struck off his head, and his soul journeyed happily to Christ. |
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| It was at this place that his head was struck off, as well as that of the first Roman soldier who was miraculously converted and refused to execute him. |
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| Additional legend proclaims that Peeping Tom was later struck blind as heavenly punishment, or that the townspeople took the matter in their own hands and blinded him. |
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| Two nights later they struck again, at the Woodford home of a gentleman named Richard Woolridge, a Furnisher of Small Arms in the Office of Ordnance at the Tower of London. |
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| Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians. |
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| He struck at the House of Lords in its usurpation of the Money Bills. |
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| Tragedy struck in 1818 and 1819, when Shelley's son Will died of fever in Rome, and his infant daughter Clara Everina died during yet another household move. |
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| Some balance must be struck that maximizes return and minimizes risk. |
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| Flora later dramatically tells two women in New Zealand that her mother has not spoken since the death of her husband who died as a result of being struck by lightning. |
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| The size and cost of a symphony orchestra, compared to the size of the base of supporters, became an issue that struck at the core of the institution. |
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| Shots struck above or touching the out line, on any wall, are out. |
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| After being struck by the racket, the ball must strike the front wall above the service line and below the out line and land in the opposite back quarter court. |
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| Hurst took the penalty and struck a powerful shot into the top corner which was saved by Gordon Banks, who succeeded in deflecting the ball over the bar. |
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| Vineyard owners, many of them in midharvest when the fire struck, have begun adding up the effects of heat and smoke, which can damage grape quality even if vines survive. |
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| Thus on 21 January 1942, when Rommel struck out on his second offensive from El Agheila, Commando Supremo was just as surprised to learn of it as the British were. |
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| Nasser struck a further blow against Britain by negotiating an arms deal with communist Czechoslovakia in September 1955 thereby ending Egypt's reliance on Western arms. |
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| Civilians from the town approached the Green Berets asking them to stop the bombing, the Green Berets struck a deal with the civilians and they entered the town the next day. |
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| These subjectivities are struck together to form a truly disgusting gum to replace desiring machines. They molarize the desiring machines, and represent them. |
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| The ships had struck a reef and run aground during rough seas. |
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| On 11 and 12 September 2004, Hurricane Ivan struck the Cayman Islands. |
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| His mannerisms and Galloway accent struck the other boys as rustic. |
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| A variation of the incandescent lamp did not use a hot wire filament, but instead used an arc struck on a spherical bead electrode to produce heat. |
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| Hopkins became Olivier's understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a 1967 production of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death. |
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| Unhappy with her home life, Wollstonecraft struck out on her own in 1778 and accepted a job as a lady's companion to Sarah Dawson, a widow living in Bath. |
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| As they stood before the high altar, Bruce struck Comyn with a dagger. |
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| The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. |
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| The Scots were not allowed ashore, and illness struck the crowded ship. |
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| Personal tragedy also struck him at this time when, on or about 19 June 1282, his wife Eleanor de Montfort, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter Gwenllian. |
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| This trend, which was later extended to railway locomotives, was a factor in the economic hardship which struck the coalfield after the First World War. |
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| In 1914 it was struck by a vessel that had broken free of its moorings. |
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| On average it produces 2 billion pound sterling coins struck for general circulation every year with an estimated 28 billion pieces circulating altogether. |
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| On 6 February 2009, the bridge was closed by weather for the first time since its opening, after three vehicles were struck by falling ice, damaging windscreens. |
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| The final blows were struck with such ferocity that Maccarinelli was knocked unconscious and required oxygen and medical attention before being able to leave the ring. |
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| Disaster struck parts of Wales in March 2013 when the coldest weather experienced in 50 years caused the deaths of many sheep and lambs and hardship to sheep farmers. |
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| The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas. |
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