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It struck me that the system itself, the framework within which we live, is fundamentally flawed, and I realized ultimately that our operating system, the way our economy functions, the way our economy's been built, is a system in itself.
Now, at the time I hadn't met Stacey, and I thought this was some sort of wealthy oil tycoon and I'd struck it rich, but it was only later that I found out she'd actually taken out a loan to make this happen.
And this was a reality that really struck me, because of course, Constance Okollet wasn't responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that were causing this problem.
Indeed, I was very struck about the situation in Malawi in January of this year.
I think it was really the importance of the injustice that really struck me very forcibly.
I was very struck when I learned that Jibreel Khazan, one of the Greensboro Four who had taken part in the Woolworth sit-ins, said quite recently that climate change is the lunch counter moment for young people.
At that time, sound was trending, and this struck me ... there was no visual art, everything was auditory.
But for the first time, at the beginning of this year, the Cyclone Pam, which destroyed Vanuatu, and in the process, the very edges of it actually touched our two southernmost islands, and all of Tuvalu was underwater when Hurricane Pam struck.
Out of the several, one struck me the most.
Helen Walters: So Dalia, you seem to have struck a chord.
Amaro and his four mateys, Bart, Charlotte, Daniel, and Eliza have struck gold: a chest with 100 coins.
But tragedy struck in 1906 when Pierre was crushed by a horse-drawn cart as he crossed a busy intersection.
We had 10 minutes left, and my pastor called us out of the pews and down to the altar because he wanted to be praying when midnight struck.
It struck me that it would have been strange anyway, for Jesus to come back again and again based on the different time zones.
But over and over again, midnight struck, and I opened my eyes to see that all of these gods were dead.
And having been trained at the West Point of capitalism, this struck us as a revolutionary idea.
And then, when I was actually observing him walking to his dining table, it struck me, this man who finds it so difficult to walk on flat land, how does he climb a staircase?
But what struck me was the contrast between the light tone of the post and the heaviness of these emails.
When I looked at this, what personally struck me was the very little time in my life I've actually spent in many of the red areas.
By the early 20th century, the perfect balance of science and art had finally been struck with the emergence of medical illustrators.
And for me it's a balance between the technique and a concept that pushes the boundaries of anatomy as a way to know thyself, which is why the work of Michael Reedy struck me.
The Earth was struck by an asteroid, a huge amount of debris was jettisoned into the atmosphere.
I played 10 years of football, was struck in the head thousands of times.
It has sensors in it that are essentially the same that are in your cell phone: accelerometers, gyroscopes, and when someone is struck in the head, it can tell you how their head moved at a thousand samples per second.
And one of the things that we noticed here is that he was struck in the lower left side of his face mask.
Now, to explain a little more detail about how we think concussion might be happening, one thing I should mention is that we and others have observed that a concussion is more likely when you're struck and your head rotates in this direction.
And so what that allows for is when you're struck and your head rotates in this left-right direction, forces can rapidly transmit right down to the center of your brain.
But something struck me about the media attention that this letter was attracting.
One of the stories she told really struck me.
Why is it that humanity is no longer struck by stomach cancer?
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