Stroke in example sentence

Immediately after the stroke that killed his father at an exclusive summer resort villa on a remote mountain, Kim Jong-il consolidated political power by concentrating it in the hands of a very few diehard loyalists – and jailing, torturing, and killing anyone he viewed as a political opponent.

More example sentences with word stroke

And that was a stroke of absolute genius, because what they did was they harnessed the power of the contract, private power, to deliver public goods.

Lion bones and tiger bones look exactly the same, and so in a stroke, the lion bone industry is going to wipe out all the tigers.

When their kids were five and two, Carol had a stroke and a brain tumor and died suddenly.

And in the U.K., neural stem cells to treat stroke are being investigated in a phase one trial.

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