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The climactic moment in the battle is immortalized in the 70-meter-long Bayeux Tapestry, where an arrow striking Harold in the eye seals the Norman victory.
So on the one hand, there was a mocking of authority, but on the other hand, there was a deference towards authority, and these Caribbean people had an overbearing obedience towards authority, which is very striking, very strange in a way, because migrants are very courageous people.
The striking thing about it is that only face recognition is impaired; everything else is just fine.
Good decisions can bring good results, striking results, quickly.
That's a striking achievement.
It's a really striking story.
But what's striking is the commonalities, the structural features of these new models and how they differ from old power.
What they found was striking.
An American fruit company opens a plantation near the village and ends up massacring thousands of striking workers, mirroring the real-life ‘Banana Massacre’ of 1928.
When we think about the dreams we have, and the dent we want to leave in the universe, it is striking to see how big of an overlap there is between the dreams that we have, and projects that never happen.
Go back further, and it's even more striking: Since the 60s, the middle class has shrunk by 20 percent, mainly because of the people tumbling out of it.
And worldwide, act further, like you've begun to do at the end of last year by striking out against climate change with hands joined together rather than fists apart.
In case after case I've studied, employers have no problem calling on law enforcement to try and threaten or deport their striking trafficked workers.
We don't really know, but the striking thing about this experiment is that it showed what we know, which is some groups do better than others, but what's key to that is their social connectedness to each other.
The law which has just recently passed and the laws that in other countries have been there, they need to be publicized at the local level, at the community level, where girls' issues are very striking.
Emma McNally is one of the main leaders of this movement, and she creates these striking, imaginary landscapes, where you can really notice the influence from traditional network visualization.
In our very unequal world today, it's very striking how many people are left behind.
Perhaps the most striking example of the human ability to watch a beheading and remain unmoved and even be disappointed was the introduction in France in 1792 of the guillotine, that famous decapitation machine.
And what's immediately striking about this is that emissions have been growing exponentially.
Now here's the even more striking thing.
One of the most striking properties about life is that it has color.
It was striking to me because it featured a young black girl, probably around 12 years old, looking studiously at some physics equations.
As with all symmetries found in living things, it's only approximate, but still a striking feature of the human body.
So while symmetry may be beautiful, asymmetry holds an allure of its own, found in its graceful whirls, its organized complexity, and its striking imperfections.
So ... But poverty, that's really striking them, is the root cause of why they're leaving.
Let me evoke for you one of the most striking days in my mathematician's life.
Or should I say, one of the most striking nights.
This illustration from the Financial Times post-Brexit is really striking.
No, what is striking about the modern elder is their relevance, their ability to use timeless wisdom and apply it to modern-day problems.
It's the most striking wall in the world.
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