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It's time we strike a new note.
That's in part because these illnesses often strike early in life, in many ways, in the prime of life, just as people are finishing their educations, starting careers, forming relationships and families.
Three of my colleagues went as far as to drive me to an open air strike area where the explosion sounds were the only thing I could hear.
I only realized we weren't there to document the event when the three of them got back into the armored Jeep and drove away, waving and laughing, leaving me behind in the open air strike zone.
But I've realized, by watching so long, that luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic.
When we're complacent with that as our bar, when we tell ourselves that giving aid is better than no aid at all, we tend to invest inefficiently, in our own ideas that strike us as innovative, on writing reports, on plane tickets and SUVs.
So he was on a hunger strike, and Hazare realized through his hunger that actually maybe this time, in the 21st century, a hunger strike wouldn't be enough.
["100 families"] The only way to accommodate all of them was by building in height, and they threatened us to go on a hunger strike if we even dared to offer this as a solution, because they could not make the tiny apartments expand.
In this play, the women of Athens grow sick of war and go on a sex strike until their husbands make peace.
Please send a drone strike."
For a while, the reported odds that asteroid Apophis would strike Earth in 2036 were once 1 in 625.
But what was powerful about this was that anonymous individuals, not federal policia, not military, not politicians, could strike fear deep into the heart of one of the most powerful, violent organizations in the world.
Yes, by the end of the tour, when we met our parents again, we both made a decision and said, "We're going on a hunger strike!" (Laughter) MW: And you can probably imagine their faces.
You can even strike a powerful pose or give yourself a pep talk.
Although the bird's outward appearance may not strike you as especially odd, it uses this strange, intricate, cork-screw shaped contraption to reproduce.
Recognizing this tension allows us to decide where we want to strike that balance.
So they organized a general strike, in which people throughout the country refused to work.
And we think that this might be one of the most common mechanisms of concussion, and as the forces move down, they strike the corpus callosum, it causes a dissociation between your right and your left brain and could explain some of the symptoms of concussion.
It's hard to strike that balance, to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
But mamaw was able to strike that balance.
And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said, "OK, you can save your team's robot if you destroy another team's robot."
In 1975, when I was seven years old, women in Iceland went on a strike.
HT: Yes, so 41 years after the original strike, we may be the best place in the world to be a woman, but our work isn't done.
These predictions strike me as arrogant.
Like a tornado strike in an area without an early warning system, there is no alarm to warn, for the danger is already at your doorstep when your odds of survival are greatly reduced.
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down the ban on same-sex marriage.
Hopefully, that's the cancer cell, and when those immune cells get the bad taste, they launch an all-out strike and kill those cells.
When an immune cell snuggles up against a cancer cell to take a taste, it's looking for signs of disease, and if it finds those signs, the cell gets activated and it launches a missile strike and kills the cell.
Despite being fragile, a newly molted shrimp is actually more likely to threaten intruders, spreading the large limbs it usually uses to strike or stab its opponents.
For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
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