Stroke
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393 examples of Stroke in a sentence
The casting of Rob Lowe as the career jackass was a
stroke
of genius!
James Toback tries to play the "mad genius" role as director and has one
stroke
of brilliance in an amazing acid-trip scene that climaxes with an Al Franken cameo.
It almost seems like it is merely a ego
stroke
for the guy who is the writer, star, and executive producer.
Casting Micheal Baldoz as a veteran with a haunting past was a
stroke
of sheer genius.
In "The Cemetery"(..directed by Boris Sagal), a loathsome money-hungry nephew, Jeremy Evans(Roddy McDowell, playing him as a really slimy scumbag) ready and willing to horde on his Uncle's inheritance, just waiting for the old timer,William Hendricks(George Macready) crippled and ravaged by a
stroke
that has taken his means of movement and communication, to croak.
If you're a male who will be watching this for masturbatory purposes (I don't know who else would be watching it, or why else) I would suggest turning the volume all the way down and playing your own
"stroke
music" on your CD player or whatever you have, unless you're heavily into "Night on Bald Mountain" (and other old library tunes) and lots of self-satirizingly earnest narration a la Walter Winchell on "The Untouchables," e.g.
It was a
stroke
of genius to pick a handful of well known black celebrities to put a face on the people whose words they were reading.
So not only has the MPC kept interest rates at a rock-bottom 0.5% since 2009, but policy has been loosened further by the Bank of England’s so-called “quantitative easing” – that is, expanding the monetary base by the
stroke
of a pen in the hope of reinvigorating domestic credit markets.
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.
Even if freeing up immigration multilaterally seems too difficult to include as part of a Doha round agreement, individual countries could do so unilaterally with the
stroke
of a pen.
That Sharon’s
stroke
could be compared – in terms of political consequences – with the assassination of Yitzak Rabin demonstrates that his personality had become associated with hope and security.
At a stroke, the empire that had gobbled up Chinese territories for centuries vanished.
Even though your ascension to the position of Prime Minister came in an awkward way because of Ariel Sharon’s stroke, I believe that you have an opportunity to be part of a historic reconciliation.
But the phrase “below, but close to, 2%” is the ECB’s own, and thus can be changed with the
stroke
of a pen.
Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer – has ignored this advice.
India’s Demonetization DisasterNE W DELHI – On November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that, at the
stroke
of midnight, some 14 trillion rupees worth of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes – 86% of all the currency in circulation – would no longer be legal tender.
Legalization ended that in a single
stroke.
For example, the recent release of political prisoners in Belarus removed at a
stroke
one of the key reasons for the EU’s hostility towards Lukashenko.
But perhaps we should consider it a
stroke
of luck that these geniuses created their mess somewhere else.
Second, CFT would confront, in one
stroke
for each partner, government subsidies, price and currency manipulations, and the other dirty tricks of international trade.
For six weeks, the King lay in a hospital fighting death, something he has done, in reality, ever since he suffered a massive
stroke
10 years ago.
Facing Up to Chronic DiseaseMONTREAL – Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating
stroke
or a fatal heart attack.
For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some
stroke
of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak.
At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive amounts of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).
Based on the epidemiological evidence linking physical activity and health, the resulting increase in physical activity would dramatically reduce rates of chronic disease, with around 10-20% less heart disease and stroke, 12-18% less breast cancer, and 8% less dementia.
This will have a serious impact on health and well being, increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
Deaths from diabetes fell by 51%, from heart disease by 35%, and from
stroke
by 20%.
With that one stroke, Thailand’s popularly elected government fell.
Several other studies have found links between low vitamin D levels and higher risk of heart failure and sudden cardiac death, stroke, and overall cardiovascular disease.
The Kouchner ConversionFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy’s appointment of Bernard Kouchner as France’s foreign minister was a brilliant political
stroke.
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