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About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide.
Still others, especially the percussion instruments, are struck by hammers that move when the air pressure changes.
Amidst all of this build-up around the royal wedding, a note of hypocrisy was struck in recent days.
As I settled into the backseat of the cozy sedan, Frank struck up conversation.
Umm Qarn's TM Thunder Struck and Al Anga were engaged in a gruelling battle in the final furlong before the latter won by a shorthead.
Every agreement he struck with Bertie was dishonoured, and it bothered him, and he would talk about it.
I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent.
More recently, Baugh headed out in his truck to do what he could when Hurricane Sandy struck the city.
He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.
Her first play, Love Struck, written with Marie Barrientos, is a passionate love story between two Latinas.
That fall he struck again, assaulting an 18-year-old college student who was babysitting three young children.
Still, the news about bales struck particularly close to home for the 27-year-old mother of three.
It struck me that Charles has, albeit unwittingly, accelerated the tendency for the bad to drive out the good.
One of those who fell suffered terrible injuries after being struck at close range by birdshot from a riot-squad shotgun.
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.
He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold.
Bryant was famous for standing with his arms crossed, and a bullet had struck his armpit and pierced his chest.
Press was struck that Wishnitzer was not the anti-establishment ideologue he imagined him to be.
But this 1929 study of the modern world, his most famous book, struck me as hopelessly nostalgic and elitist.
Librizzi has always struck me as an admirable man, rough-hewn as a New York cabbie.
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Hundreds of trekkers were on the popular Annapurna Circuit in the Mustang area of Nepal when disaster struck last week.
At times when there was inadequate sunlight to focus through the lens, the king struck flintstones to ignite the flame in the same way.
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.
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.
Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words.
The number of coins struck was small and English coins probably remained more significant in this period.
Later coins of a similar type were struck in Britain and are found all along the south coast as far west as Dorset.
He struck the names of many senators and equites who no longer met qualifications, but showed respect by allowing them to resign in advance.
While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.
He had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation.
More difficulties struck in 1083, when William's eldest son Robert rebelled once more with support from the French king.
Many saw it as a punishment from God when Henry was later struck down with unknown but chronic illnesses.
In 1348, the Black Death struck England with full force, killing a third or more of the country's population.
Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash.
Disaster struck in a freak hailstorm on the encamped army, causing over 1,000 English deaths.
A major plague epidemic struck the Mediterranean, and much of Europe, in the 6th century.
The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly, his weather-beaten face very grave.
Following Raleigh's death, members of his family approached Boyle for compensation on the ground that Raleigh had struck an improvident bargain.
Tiger sailed through Ocracoke Inlet on June 26, but it struck a shoal, ruining most of the food supplies.
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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There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
A medal was struck and a triumphal column erected at Boulogne to celebrate the invasion's anticipated success.
In August 2008 large areas of Zimbabwe were struck by the ongoing cholera epidemic.
Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal.
This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
The backhandedness of the compliment suddenly struck him, and he squeezed his eyes shut at the gaffe.
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.
She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.
The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.
It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken.
As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.
Craig Reid struck the United woodwork, while Boro goalkeeper Chris Day had to tip over a header from his own midfielder Michael Bostwick.
His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon.
And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades.
His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused, reddened.
She started singing a traditional song as she raised her hands and struck her dandiyas on the beat.
The visitors rallied again though and struck decisively 16 minutes from time when Yaya Toure headed in the winner.
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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Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.
An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact.
If, as seems likely, such a bombardment struck Earth at the same time, the first atmosphere and oceans may have been stripped away.
About 100 times as many meteorites struck the Earth per year during the Ordovician compared with today.
Without Cromwell's backing of milled coinage, Peter Blondeau returned to France leaving England to continue minting hammer struck coins.
Crowns, therefore, had a face value of 25p from decimalisation until 1981, when the last 25p crown was struck.
After 15 September 1709 no further silver coins were ever struck in Scotland.
An industrial recession struck the principality, and hurt South Wales in particular.
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.
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.
Toshack and Keegan struck up a successful partnership with Toshack winning balls in the air and Keegan finishing the knock downs.
Bale further developed his reputation as a free kick specialist when he struck the post from one against West Bromwich Albion.
In the first round, Hopkins struck him with a right hand, knocking him down.
The attack was made so unexpectedly that Garfield had no time to escape the oncoming spears, three of which struck him in the body.
In 1883, a third company was formed, the Point of Ayr Colliery Company, and in 1890 they struck a seam.
Just a few years before the latter earthquake, the island was struck by a ferocious plague.
It is said that the mothers allowed their children to eat bread only when they had struck it off a post with the sling.
In 1846, when a famine struck Madeira over 6,000 of the inhabitants migrated to British Guiana.
This was in turn struck down by a referendum following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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As the disaster struck on a Saturday night, many government and emergency offices in the affected area were not staffed.
In 1755, the earthquake struck on the morning of 1 November, the holy day of All Saints' Day.
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.
During the confusion of battle, five more rounds were fired at Alabama after her colors were struck.
According to Dudo, Rollo struck up a friendship in England with a king that Dudo calls Alstem.
Philip moved south around the new defensive line and struck upwards at the heart of the Duchy, now facing little resistance.
It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was floated toward the enemy, detonated by a sparking mechanism if it struck a ship.
But on Tuesday morning it was crowded with players, some toting paddlelike bats, and filled with the sound of leather balls struck by wood.
After spending many years in profoundly investigating this problem, I have at last struck bottom.
The Cape Hatteras area is infamous for being frequently struck by hurricanes that move up the East Coast of the United States.
Destructive hurricanes struck frequently from 1926 to 1960, including many major New England hurricanes.
The Magdalenian tool culture is characterised by regular blade industries struck from carinated cores.
When the first pandemic finally struck in 1519 it wiped out much of the remaining native population.
The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on.
Iceland benefited from its relative isolation and was the last Scandinavian country to be struck by the Black Death.
As Victoria was riding in a carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead.
Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman.
Employing the same modus operandi, he struck her from behind and used a knife to slash her, this time above her buttocks.
He struck her from behind and hit her on the head five times while she was walking along a country lane.
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.
They were saved, however, by a sudden shower, which refreshed the Romans, while lightning struck the Quadi.
From there they struck into the heart of Provence, ending with the capture of Avignon, despite strong resistance.
We start with Catullus and Juvenal, and I'm struck by how modern it all seems, how piss-taking, undeferential, sly, sarcastic and satirical.
Luigi Galvani, one of the pioneers of bioelectricity, discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.
The treaty struck with the Goths was to be the first foedus on imperial Roman soil.
The final blow was struck on 1 December, when Ukraine, the second most powerful republic, voted overwhelmingly for independence.
After that time the hyperpyron nomisma continued as a unit of account, but it was no longer struck in gold.
The idea of enslaving the Tainos had instantly struck Columbus as plausible, even desirable.
When the others were struck ill, Estevanico continued alone, opening up what is now New Mexico and Arizona.
At this point a powerful hurricane struck the boat and Talavera had to seek help from Ojeda.
A devastating leaf disease, Hemileia vastatrix, struck the coffee plantations in 1869, destroying the entire industry within fifteen years.
In August 2004, the Dry Tortugas were directly struck by Hurricane Charley.
Some notable tornadoes have struck South Carolina, and the state averages around 14 tornadoes annually.
In 1975 the Tasman Bridge collapsed when the bridge was struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra.
The Tatars struck a decisive blow on December 20, when a Cossack party of twenty men were discovered and slain.
Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
In contrast to the September 2010 quake, the February 2011 earthquake struck on a busy weekday afternoon.
In August 1519, Zurich was struck by an outbreak of the plague during which at least one in four persons died.
He swerved wildly through the streets and struck a group of school girls, killing four of them.
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The defendant then struck the deceased with an axe which was an accident of availability.
In the case, a Miss Stone was struck on the head by a cricket ball while standing outside a cricket ground.
A train approached, and in the darkness an object protruding from one of the cars suddenly struck Tompkins knocking him to the ground.
They were one of the first Indian states to issue coins struck with their rulers embossed.
Cobden consented, and at the meeting was much struck by Bright's short speech, and urged him to speak against the Corn Laws.
Inniss believed that the bill was unconstitutional, and would soon be struck down by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court.
In 1922 it was struck by lightning and had to be dynamited down, but until that time it was in daily use.
Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches.
It struck Assumption Preparatory School, now the site of Quinsigamond Community College.
After a battle lasting three hours, Java struck her colors and was burned after being judged unsalvageable.
Then in 1346, Europe was struck with the Black Death and the population was reduced by up to a half.
This landscape was struck from the World Heritage list in 2009, due to the construction of a four lane highway across the Elbe.
The City Council was considering whether to remove the stone in order to try and stop the bad luck which had struck the city.
They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches.
God took exception to this, and struck the stone with a thunderbolt, destroying the coffin and splitting the stone in two.
It was badly damaged in the Great Thunderstorm of 1638, apparently struck by ball lightning during an afternoon service.
They interrogate the innkeepers about a past order for meat that John has spotted, which struck him as odd for a vegetarian restaurant.
He struck me as schemey and oleaginous from the first time I saw him, long before his disgraceful performances around the Iraq war.
The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.
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Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building.
St Johnstone's in-form strike force struck again as goals from Francisco Sandaza and Cillian Sheridan defeated Kilmarnock at Rugby Park.
To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.
The doctor was struck off the UK Medical Register for professional misconduct.
But the car amazed him. It kept going. And that too struck him as funny. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking.
In the midst of our fun, a tremendous tatterara of the dining-room bell struck upon our hearts.
Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters.
After my long absence, I was immediately struck by the unchangedness of the town.
Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling.
As between clear, but inflexible rules on the one hand and flexible, but unguiding rules on the other, where should the balance be struck?
The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.
It struck me as language borrowed from some bureaucratic circular.
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.
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.
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.
The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
The group was on a mounted patrol when their Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle was struck.
The Judge at Balbriggan District court, where the singer appeared, struck out the charges because of delays.
Barillas was struck in the face by a comebacker in the first inning of Burbank's 6-1 win.
The award surprised Lewis, but it also struck the right note.
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Lundberg's comments struck a chord with Bee Young, who opened the Wickit Weedery dispensary on Main Street.
Sir, How FC Chapman's letter on 'neighbourhoods wimping out' struck a chord.
Near Dayr Az Zawr, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL vehicle, it said.
In Syria, a drone carried out one airstrike near Ar Raqqah, where it struck an ISIL tactical unit, the statement said.
In Syria near Mar'a, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit, the announcement said.
He struck a match, but the breeze from the window fan blew it out.
I was standing in the background with her husband and I was struck at how word-perfect she was on any matter that arose.
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.
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.
A cannonball struck and killed Nelson's secretary, John Scott, nearly cutting him in two.
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.
A bomb also struck the Lords Chamber, but went through the floor without exploding.
Evidence can still be seen of this today, with damage clearly visible on one of the doors where they were struck by Black Rod.
Copper or bronze coins were not struck, nor were gold except in Southern Europe.
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.
The third fire struck during filming of The Who's concert in 1974, after which it was rebuilt once again.
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.
Lichtenberg figures are often seen on the skin of a person who has been struck by lightning.
The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, who was struck by Rocket.
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.
The inside of the tubes are coated with phosphors that give off visible light when struck by ultraviolet energy.
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.
Illness struck the monastery in 664 and while Cuthbert recovered, the prior died and Cuthbert was made prior in his place.
Two springs of clear water are said to have bubbled up after he struck the ground with his crozier.
The only coins allowed by the Turkish government to be struck at Cairo are the Mahbub Sequins, and Medini.
The residents of the city were commanded to look away as she rode, but one man did not and was allegedly struck blind.
Falling from a horse without wearing a helmet is comparable to being struck by a car.
Several days later the two struck at Epping Forest, depriving a man from Southwark of his belongings.
Calvinism does not seem to have struck with Hilliard, but the fluent French he acquired abroad was later useful.
He spotted her one evening in the Strand in 1865 and was immediately struck by her beauty.
At the age of thirty, 13 May 1373, Julian was struck with a serious illness.
Charles, who suffered from tuberculosis, died in 1826 after being struck by lightning during a rainstorm.
She sent them to Tolkien, who was struck by the similarity they bore in style to his own drawings.
In his later years his uncompromising, personal style of composition struck many music lovers as too austere, and his brief popularity declined.
In 1624, a player called Jasper Vinall died after he was struck on the head during a match between two parish teams in Sussex.
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.
Boasts or angle shots are deliberately struck off one of the side walls before the ball reaches the front.
In particular, with five minutes gone, Bobby Charlton struck the post and sent another shot just wide.
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.
A few corners later, the problem struck again, and Vettel ran off the track and subsequently retired, due to brake failure.
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.
Meanwhile, several states have either abolished or struck down death penalty laws.
The Corps then prepared to capture two railway tunnels linking Maungdaw with the Kalapanzin valley but the Japanese struck first.
In April 2006, a man was killed on Slieve Donard after being struck by lightning.
The first English coins to circulate in North America were struck in Bermuda.
Miners in the National Union of Mineworkers, led by Arthur Scargill, struck against the closure of collieries.
In April 2017 an OSCE vehicle struck a mine, killing one member and injuring two.
Two armoured vehicles were on patrol was near Luhansk when one struck the mine.
Realizing that war was imminent, Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it.
Once through the Kerch Strait, British and French warships struck at every vestige of Russian power along the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Eventually a deal was struck whereby Russian forces operated as a unit of KFOR but not under the NATO command structure.
She was struck amidships, with devastating effect, ultimately killing 20 crew members and severely injuring 24 others.
British, French, Portuguese colonial interests struck treaties with these rulers, and established their trading ports.
On 7 July 2005, a series of four suicide bombings struck London, killing 52 commuters, in addition to the four bombers.
Roberts also struck up a literary relationship with Saunders Lewis, which they maintained through letters over a period of forty years.
Cleaning and restoration were performed on each film when new 35mm prints were struck.
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.
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.
In 1822 he was struck with paralysis, but recovered a fair degree of health, sufficient to enable him to resume his studies.
Such was his popularity that two medals were struck in celebration of his acquittal.
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.
Kirk and Wittgenstein struck up a friendship, with Wittgenstein giving him lessons in physics to help him pass a City and Guilds exam.
It is not certain that the ball was being struck between members of the same team.
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.
When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks.
A secret deal between Mountbatten and Congress leaders had already been struck.
In the Netherlands, Voltaire was struck and impressed by the openness and tolerance of Dutch society.
Upon coming ashore, Andrew struck the rocks with his staff at which point a spring of healing waters gushed forth.
Llywelyn turned to rejoin his forces and was pursued by a lone lancer who struck him down.
Tragedy struck when she died during childbirth in 1282, giving birth to a daughter Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn.
The gold coins are of uncertain use but may have been struck to be used as alms or for gifts to Rome.
Nothing definite is known about their use, but they may have been struck to be used as alms.
Although many of the coins bear the name of a moneyer, there is no indication of the mint where each coin was struck.
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.
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.
Sheldon recorded 182,396 slightly wounded and sick soldiers not struck off unit strength, which if included would make 399,590 German losses.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls.
Jade used a rag bait and struck from the White Holes with a 5lb cod.
He had struck too far east, and was heading along north in open ocean.
De Courtonne's claims struck a chord at a time when French patriotism was offended at the success of the Dutch and the English in making new discoveries in the South Pacific.
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.
In 1914 it was struck by a vessel that had broken free of its moorings.
I suppose the bullet must have struck the steels in my corsets.
Failing to take into account the powerful currents pushing them eastward, they struck the northeast shore of Cuba and were initially confused about their location.
Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.
At the point of attack, a storm struck the English Channel, already known for its harsh currents and choppy waters, which devastated large numbers of the Spanish fleet.
On average it produces 2 billion pound sterling coins struck for general circulation every year with an estimated 28 billion pieces circulating altogether.
For the second time in the history of the club, an arsonist had struck.
He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years.
The penny was the first of its denomination to be struck in copper.
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.
The electric arc is struck by touching the rods then separating them.
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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.
Shots struck above or touching the out line, on any wall, are out.
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.
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.
A cyclone that struck Bangladesh in 1991 killed some 140,000 people.
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.
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.
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.
Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.
The HMNZS Canterbury, which was docked at Lyttelton when the quake struck, was involved in providing local community assistance, in particular by providing hot meals.
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.
This quake struck at about lunchtime and was centred closer at Lyttelton, and shallower than the prior quake, consequently causing extensive damage.
In 1552, a new silver coinage was introduced, struck in sterling silver.
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.
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.
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.
A defence that simply denies is likely to be struck out by the court.
Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians.
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.
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.
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.
Some balance must be struck that maximizes return and minimizes risk.
He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.
The Supreme Court has since struck down these discriminatory measures, opening democratic participation to all, regardless of one's ability to pay.
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.
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.
The dense population of seals may have been the characteristic that most struck the few ancient Romans who established contact with these islands by sea.
The driver lost control and the car struck the tire barrier.
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.
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.
The war was initially inconclusive, as the Italian army get struck in a long attrition war in the Alps, making little progress and suffering very heavy losses.
The Dalton girl struck a blow for women's lib in 1980 when she became a Cub Scout in skirts at Parkwood Methodist Church, where her mother was one of the leaders.
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.
In the middle of the 14th century, Sweden was struck by the Black Death.
The Vikings were competent sailors, adept in land warfare as well as at sea, and they often struck at accessible and poorly defended targets, usually with near impunity.
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.
The wave did not travel far, as it struck land almost immediately.
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.
English writer Thomas Churchyard, then aged 60, was in London when the quake struck and he drafted an immediate account which was published two days later.

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