I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band strikes up (= starts playing )
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We were on the dance floor waiting for the band to strike up.
a bullet hits/strikes sb
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The first bullet hit him in the back.
a clock strikes eight/nine etc (= makes eight/nine etc sounds according to the hour )
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In the distance I heard a church clock strike eleven.
a disaster strikes (= happens suddenly )
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Congress often gives millions of dollars in foreign aid when natural disasters strike.
a distinctive/striking appearance (= unusual and interesting )
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The unusual leaves give the plant a distinctive appearance.
a lightning strike (= an occasion when lightning hits something )
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A lightning strike sent a surge through the electricity supply system.
a marked/striking contrast (= very noticeable )
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I noticed a marked contrast in his behaviour before and after treatment.
a remarkable/striking/marked similarity (= one that is very noticeable )
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This ape's facial expressions show remarkable similarities to ours.
a storm hits/strikes (a place)
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We should try to get home before the storm hits.
a striking aspect
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This is one of the most striking aspects of life in Tokyo.
a striking characteristic
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Its canals are one of Amsterdam’s most striking characteristics.
a striking feature (= an unusual or interesting feature )
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Her long blonde hair is her most striking feature.
a striking resemblance (= very strong and noticeable )
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There's a striking resemblance between the two boys.
a thought occurs to/comes to/strikes sb (= someone suddenly has a thought )
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The thought occurred to him that she might be lying.
air strike
an earthquake hits/strikes a place (= happens in a particular place )
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The region was struck by a major earthquake last year.
come out on strike
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We decided to come out on strike .
first strike
forge/strike a compromise formal (= make a compromise )
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They met again Wednesday night to try to forge a compromise.
general strike
hit/strike oil (= to find oil when you are digging for it )
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The engineers drilled down a few hundred metres until they hit oil.
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The Ohio Oil Company struck oil on May 3rd.
hunger strike
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A total of 300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike .
industrial/strike action (= that workers take in order to protest about pay, working conditions etc )
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The miners voted in favour of industrial action.
lightning hits/strikes sth
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The house had been hit by lightning.
lightning strike
pre-emptive strike/attack
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a series of pre-emptive strikes on guerrilla bases
reach/strike a deal (= agree a deal after a lot of discussions )
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The US and North Korea reached a deal about North Korea's nuclear development program.
rent strike
(sound/strike/toll) the death knell for/of sth
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
stage a strike/demonstration/sit-in etc
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Activists staged a protest outside the parliament.
strike a happy medium
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I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
strike (it) lucky informal (= be lucky )
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I applied for twenty jobs before I struck lucky.
strike pay
strike terror into sb’s heart
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His fearsome appearance strikes terror into the hearts of his enemies.
strike up a friendship
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He and Matthew struck up a friendship.
strike/achieve/find a balance (= succeed in getting the right balance )
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It is necessary to strike a balance between the needs of employers and employees.
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Find the right balance between enough exercise and enough rest.
strikes a discordant note
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The modern decor strikes a discordant note in this old building.
striking originality (= used about something so new and different that it makes you notice it )
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Any visitor will admire the striking originality of the building's architecture.
struck a pose (= stood or sat in a particular position )
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Ann struck a pose and smiled for the camera.
struck by...bolt of lightning
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There’s not much left of his house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning .
struck dumb
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She was struck dumb with terror.
struck...mine
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The ship struck a mine and sank.
surgical strike
tragedy strikes (= happens suddenly )
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Just when it looked as though everything would turn out right, tragedy struck and Jenny developed a fatal illness.
went on hunger strike
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A total of 300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike .
wildcat strike
within striking distance of sth (= not far from something, especially something you are going to attack )
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Their troops had advanced to within striking distance of the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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I felt my sword bite flesh, a scream, then I struck again .
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Back on the mainland she was again struck by the beauty of the scene.
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If his body jerked when he was struck again , and fatally, it was no more than an instant's convulsion.
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The Great White Shark has struck again .
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He waited until I was almost asleep and struck again , just above my ear.
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The reader will not find lurid accounts of a vast, secret conspiracy coiled and ready to strike again .
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The murderer may well strike again .
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Then the Richardson charm struck again .
home
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Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home .
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And then those two words struck home .
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That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home .
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It must have struck home in some way.
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The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
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The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home .
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Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
■ NOUN
balance
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How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy.
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Effective organizations will strike a balance that allows them not only to accept uncertainty but to take advantage of it.
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No one can insure against all eventualities and so you strike a balance between the re- and pro- active aspects of your work.
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Barnett, however, has been able to strike a rare balance as a broadcaster.
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U S West Inc. knows all too well how difficult striking the right balance can be.
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We have made our plans; they involve change; they involve striking a balance .
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Accounts receivable management requires striking a balance between the cost of extending credit and the benefit received from extending credit.
bargain
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The plant strikes a bargain with its emissary.
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The town has struck a Faustian bargain , they contend -- trading something of its small-town soul for success.
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Historically, an exchange was a physical thing; a room or building where people met to gather information and strike bargains .
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So we struck a bargain , or at least I thought we had.
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Buyer and seller strike a bargain with each individual purchase.
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In order to strike the best possible bargain on setting-day the men might invent stories of difficulty and adverse conditions.
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This should enable prosecutors to strike bargains at an appropriate penalty level.
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Alternatively, defendants might be able to strike favourable bargains and get off more lightly than they deserve.
blow
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Tommaso had called for action, for striking a blow .
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They were certainly striking a blow for short people.
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When we did, the enemy almost always had the opportunity of striking the first blow .
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Eventually, one of them attacked it with a large branch, striking it a damaging blow .
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Let us strike the blow which is to restore peace and union to this distracted land.
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We think the killer went in there to clean up immediately after striking the blow .
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The guard made a point of gazing into the distance as he struck his blows .
chord
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One young man of John's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him.
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The plight of Gerald McClellan struck a chord in Jones.
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The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
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Her language may be a bit highbrow, but it strikes a chord with many of Britain's state school heads.
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I believe that most of the incidents that I have described will strike a chord with the vast majority of black people.
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Obviously Nunn had struck a responsive chord .
clock
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Then, above the screams of the wind, he heard the great clock striking in the market place.
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Starting at midnight, he would begin his routine, closing his eyes and falling asleep before the clock had struck twelve.
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A clock had just struck seven.
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There was that unmistakable sound of the clock striking thirteen about this unexpected turn of events.
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Somewhere downstairs a clock struck a quarter to nine.
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He heard a clock strike eight.
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And, just like in the fairytale, her fabulous pumpkins spring to life just as the clock strikes midnight.
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When they reached the top of the hill, they heard the town clocks strike eight.
conversation
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He struck up a conversation , first asking his name.
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Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
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I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
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Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
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Besides, Anna had struck up a conversation with a young girl who'd been swimming in the pool.
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I was clueless, of course, but it was an opportunity to strike up an amusing conversation .
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However, on striking up a conversation , Chalk, a little the worse for drink, became talkative and boastful.
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I, of course, had no choice but to strike up a conversation with the girl who sat next to me.
court
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It arced across the well of the court , striking the smaller of the two in the back.
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Earlier this year federal appellate courts struck down the New York and Washington laws.
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The Supreme Court , however, struck down a similar law in Louisiana the following year.
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S Court of Appeals struck down on Tuesday the voter-approved Proposition 140.
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The court struck down limits on expenditures by candidates themselves, or those made independently on behalf of candidates.
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The Court was unanimous in striking down the law but was badly divided over the reasons.
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What bothers us more is the seeming predisposition of the federal courts to strike down term-limit laws on just about any pretext.
deal
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In the end, after much to-ing and fro-ing between the labour and liberal democrat camps, a deal was struck .
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The plea was part of a deal struck with the Dallas County district attorney.
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This means he now has to take any deal struck back to the council.
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But the deal is most striking in the way it reshapes Raytheon, based in Lexington, Mass.
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But a deal may be struck .
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The deal struck has been to raise the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 65, starting early in the next century.
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All these questions must be answered before a deal can be struck .
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In most bargaining circumstances a deal can be struck that will satisfy all sides.
disaster
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His lead had stretched to half a minute on the soaking track when disaster struck .
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In November of 1974, because of the oil crisis, disaster struck Tarrytown.
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If in doubt, ask your insurance agent - and read your policy before disaster strikes .
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In the midst of all this wandering, family disaster strikes but the travelers continue onward.
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Most of us live with that possibility because it is part of the human condition to know that disaster can strike .
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Whenever I did this and substituted whoever was handy for the person I was attracted to, disaster struck .
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By the late seventies the middle class had expanded beyond the point of safety and disaster did strike .
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Once again, disaster struck the party, with nothing but benefits for Daley.
friendship
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He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
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At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
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Alone and friendless, she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin.
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Peggy and James strike up a friendship .
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Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship .
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He appeared to have struck up a useful friendship with the minister for industry, Sean McEntee, among others.
head
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They struck you on the head and left you locked inside.
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He was struck on the head with a club.
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She was unconscious as if she had struck her head in the fall.
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In the first case, a 17-year-old high school football player struck his head on the ground while being tackled.
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His uncle's axe was striking at his head .
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It may be quite striking , with the head and extremities exhibiting gross, irregular oscillations exaggerated by voluntary movements.
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He flew through the air and struck his head against a tree, his life being saved by the helmet.
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Rocio Martinez was one of two Tijuana children struck in the head by stray rounds during the most recent holiday season.
heart
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I predicted that a dramatic event would soon strike at the heart of the Royal Family.
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We want to set up an event that will make it appear they have struck at the heart of our government.
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The Slav opposition collapsed almost immediately, as if the very name of Charles had struck terror into their hearts .
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Every crisis would strike terror into the hearts of people everywhere.
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If there is a single subject guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, it is drugs.
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The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
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Those two little hyphenated words struck terror in the heart of some one eager for a weekend of yoga classes and silent breakfasts.
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The man whose very name struck terror in the hearts of managing directors?
lightning
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Until then, Ted is staying in temporary accommodation and praying that lightning never strikes 3 times in the same place.
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Another bolt of lightning struck behind him, and Eugene felt the air seared into ozone on either side of him.
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How long did it take lightning to strike ?
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He asks why, and lightning strikes him.
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If the lightning had struck me like it had Ben, it would have meant no hope for me.
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If lightning did strike me in the same minute, it would be treated as a miracle.
match
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He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match , held it to the wick.
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She was so cold that she struck a match for warmth.
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It's like striking a match , Meg.
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Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
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She had so obviously struck a match with some one else.
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She struck a match and blew it out.
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Some one struck a match at the open door of the landing bedroom.
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She saw these things when she struck her matches that she was supposed to sell.
note
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William Yes-might make it hard to strike a really romantic note .
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The book is written in spare prose that seems to want to strike a note of manly reticence.
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In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer.
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The name, and the music, struck a note with the local indie community and the festival began to grow.
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That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
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That straw yellow struck a bass note that I had forgotten, that was deep in my memory.
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Edward Johnston's 1915 sanserif lettering for the Underground still strikes an efficient modern note amidst the dirt and gloom.
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Mrs Margaret Thatcher has struck three notes since the Communist world began to disintegrate.
pose
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This is shown vividly when, left finally alone, she strikes a dramatic pose of complete withdrawal from love and happiness.
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He struck the same pose on the sideline during overtime.
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And then, striking a dramatic pose she announced that she was terribly ashamed.
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They strike beautiful poses that could go unaltered into glossy magazines but tell us little about them.
thing
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The first thing which strikes one is the speed with which bodies are expected to respond or to change.
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For that very reason, perhaps, distant things often struck his vision with intensity.
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Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews, one thing is striking .
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Two things about the Alto struck Raskin as brilliant.
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The thing that struck me most about the room was its symmetry.
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The thing that really struck me about her is how serious she was, how those big eyes soaked everything in.
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That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance.
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The first thing that struck them was the color.
thought
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To be honest, the same thought had struck me.
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But I felt their whispers and thoughts striking me in the chest.
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Just as Howard is scraping the last spoonful of apple crumble out of the bowl, a thought strikes him.
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A thought struck me, bringing fear with it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be struck all of a heap
be struck on sb/sth
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A fight breaks out and one man is struck on the head by a stick.
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A midday balance should be struck on the tabular ledger. 13.
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He was struck on the head with a club.
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I was struck on one of my artificial legs, damaging the calliper.
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In most cases, the balance is struck on the basis of judgement and experience.
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Profit is struck on an annual basis, and the time-frame and weighting of anticipated returns can vary greatly.
drive/strike a hard bargain
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
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So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
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The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
hit/strike home
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The reality of the war didn't hit home until someone from the neighborhood was killed.
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All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
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And to go back to your start-up page hit Home .
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By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home .
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His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
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It must have struck home in some way.
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She could see that her remark had hit home .
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They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
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Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home .
hit/strike paydirt
hit/strike the right/wrong note
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He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
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So are buskers in Gloucester striking the right note with their audience?
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That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
lightning never strikes twice
sit-down strike/protest
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Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.
strike/touch a chord (with sb)
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Clearly, what they do touches a chord in more than a few listeners.
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Her language may be a bit highbrow, but it strikes a chord with many of Britain's state school heads.
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His declarations have struck a chord on both sides of the House.
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Obviously, their messages have struck a chord among voters in Arizona and New Hampshire.
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One young man of John's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him.
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Somewhere, he touched a chord in his son.
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The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
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The plight of Gerald McClellan struck a chord in Jones.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A house nearby had been struck by a falling tree.
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Evidence shows that the victim had been struck several times with an iron bar.
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Female workers are often more reluctant than men to strike in order to get what they want.
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He struck her across the face and broke her nose.
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Her husband had never struck her before.
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I looked around the glittering room and it struck me that I was probably the poorest person there.
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In anger, he struck the wall with a stick.
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It struck her one day, when she was walking home from school, that she hadn't thought about her weight for over a month.
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It is always devastating when this illness strikes.
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It just struck me - you must have been in the same class as my brother.
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Lightning struck the barn and set it on fire.
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Morris struck his drum, and the band started to march down the street.
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Most people were fast asleep when the hurricane struck at 4.05 pm.
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My mother was always asking questions, and it struck me as odd that she didn't ask one on this occasion.
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Teachers were not striking for higher pay, but for higher standards in education.
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The ball struck him in the face.
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The Cardinals struck first with two touchdowns in the first quarter.
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The clock had just struck two.
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The court heard that the defendant had struck Payne repeatedly in the face, causing serious bruising.
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The flight attendants are threatening to strike .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He began with the departure from Troy and the storm that struck the Fleet.
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Her arrow was the first to strike it.
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In the final analysis, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision struck down the first display and upheld the second one.
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It's like striking a match, Meg.
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The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan, Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners.
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The London Planetarium no longer strikes one with quite the same sense of awe, because planetariums are no longer new.
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This strikes me as just as arrogant and insular as would be a judgment pronounced on a ghetto kid.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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The Front subsequently suspended a general strike order issued on June 6.
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The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
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Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike .
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A further 24-hour general strike on May 22 severely disrupted transport and services.
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With output recovering, the prime minister, Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity's threat to call a general strike .
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A general strike , however, organized on June 19 by the National Confederation Union, attracted little support.
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The main focus of attention was, however, preparations for a general strike to be held on Aug. 3-4.
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Early in November it called a second general strike .
long
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Trade unions are spreading: teachers staged a long strike last year.
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Here you go, fans, the longest strike in the history of the game.
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Third, since supplementary benefit can be paid indefinitely, long strikes are prolonged into longer strikes.
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We spared no expense in preparing ourselves for a long strike and the decertification of the unions.
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It was a long , bitter strike , 119 days, and at the end of it the men had gotten nothing.
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In another study, Gennard and Lasko interviewed fifty workers from each of two long and large strikes in 1971 and 1973.
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Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County, where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike .
national
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Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Office staff at Gloucester Prison have joined a one-day national strike against the privatisation of jails.
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Soon it would be a national strike , burning wild and out of control.
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Their first real test by the unions was the 12-week national steel strike , commencing January 1980.
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Public and congressional rejection of the market-oriented model was at the heart of a 48-hour national strike .
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Last year's results were lower because of the national postal strike and because of the pay increases, the Post Office said.
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Earlier in the dispute, calls for all-out national strike action had been rejected on Jan. 23 by national union leaders.
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In February 1974, there was a second national miners' strike .
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Union leader Arthur Scargill's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners' strike .
nationwide
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Industrial action On June 6, 1990, there was a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against the latest austerity measures.
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Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.
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May 24 saw further nationwide strikes and demonstrations in 12 cities.
unofficial
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But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.
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All 96 staff are out on unofficial strike .
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The unofficial strike of oil-rig workers in 1990 had as one of its major aims an improvement in safety.
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There's an unofficial strike to try and stop them closing the line.
■ NOUN
action
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The country was on a 3-day working week and the mineworkers were solidly in favour of strike action in support of their pay claim.
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Interfax reported on May 13 that the health unions would postpone strike action until Aug. 1.
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Workers backed up their claims with strike action .
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At the end of October, egged on by rank-and-file demands for an eight-hour day, the Soviet endorsed renewed strike action .
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A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid strike action occurred in the 1954 pay negotiations.
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Moreover, strike action could be counterproductive.
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Earlier in the dispute, calls for all-out national strike action had been rejected on Jan. 23 by national union leaders.
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The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action .
air
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Only after barely-veiled threats of a resumption of air strikes did Baghdad agree to co-operate.
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When we decided we had them pinned down, they called in an air strike .
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If air strikes are launched, what will become of them?
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At this point a majority on the Ex Comm agreed on the necessity of an air strike the next morning.
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There were many choices available, including continued air strikes , further ground attacks and increased special warfare actions.
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The streets of Baghdad functioned as normal Saturday, but people expressed fear of more air strikes .
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They called in air strikes all around us.
call
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A strike call by the Sacred Union on Feb. 3 was taken up by workers across the country.
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The ejection came after Joyner questioned a strike call .
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Twenty factories obeying Yeltsin's strike call were asked to return to work by Sobchak.
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The strike call , however, was reportedly not widely observed.
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The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country, to await events.
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According to local reports an opposition strike call was widely observed on Oct. 26.
committee
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Three students were killed in clashes with the police on Nov. 22, and several members of the strike committee were arrested.
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Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention.
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On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk.
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I am resigning from the strike committee .
hunger
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Both Tom and Terry decided to go on hunger strike .
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During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession.
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Miners and workers held hunger strikes and marches, and blocked roads in the following weeks.
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Brady collapsed on Boxing Day, three months into a hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a tougher ward.
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Her old tutor is horrified, but her husband says he supports the hunger strike -- even if it claims her life.
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Former political prisoners had gone on hunger strike on Sept. 20 in Tirana, demanding recognition of their innocence and economic compensation.
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One judge began a hunger strike in protest.
lightning
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Energy was released into the building by a lightning strike .
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The tactic was the old reliable one: the lightning strike .
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Owing to the random nature of lightning strikes , it is unlikely that lying down offers any protection.
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As with most valuable electronic equipment, surge protection is recommended against possible lightning strikes and power surges.
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Holly's hand moved, the lightning strike of the cobra.
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I believe that there was a lightning strike on the car.
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Gilbert waited for the lightning strike that would finally find them, and began to babble a hopeless prayer.
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The probability of my inviting a lightning strike in any particular minute is also very low.
rent
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But the rent strikes brought her out to the world with her small fists clenched in a white-knuckle fury.
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She organised a rent strike and got her whole street rehoused.
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There could be a rent strike , a rates strike, or both.
zone
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Glossary of popular terms Ball: called by the umpire when a pitch misses the strike zone .
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After all, Greg Maddux enjoyed the same strike zone and struck out nine in seven innings.
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The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball.
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Gregg was called into the postgame interview room and asked about his strike zone .
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I never thought there was a question how low a strike zone is.
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Better be ready to expand that strike zone , Robbie.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone .
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How about starting with the strike zone , fellas?
■ VERB
break
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In any event, I doubt if you could break the strike without considerable violence.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
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All round there was a lack of shared will to break the strike and maintain Faulkner's executive.
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In most cases, members of the state militias sympathized with the strikers and thus failed to break the strike .
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All the same it is far from true that they were used to break the strike .
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When talks with government and presidential staff broke down, the strike was declared illegal.
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Brutal repression broke the strike , and mobilization for the war initially subdued the labour movement.
end
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Producers of commercials resisted, but granted some concessions to end the strike .
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The settlement came after a week of escalating pressures on both sides to end the strike .
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Madani and Belhadj, citing this concession, asked their followers at evening prayers in Algiers to end the strike .
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They ended their strike on Dec. 13.
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The teachers had suddenly ended their strike , and the four youngest children had gone back to school.
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Meanwhile, talks aimed at ending the strike remain at a standstill.
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On Dec. 31 the government and Solidarity reached agreement on ending the strike .
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Baggage handlers at Manchester Airport voted last night to end their three-week strike after management and unions agreed on a peace settlement.
go
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Last year miners went on strike , demanding to be dismissed.
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We get together, start whining, and then we go on strike .
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Both Tom and Terry decided to go on hunger strike .
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Are teachers allowed to go on strike ?
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Her knees seemed to have gone on strike .
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First they had gone on strike .
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Three branches went out on strike in South Tyneside, Walsall, and Hackney.
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Finally, the courts have ruled that school boards can impose economic sanctions on teachers who go on strike .
launch
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From Bourges Capetian forces could launch a quick strike against Tours and Poitiers.
lead
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He had also been a trade union official, once leading a strike of railway workers in 1989.
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Thirty years ago, she would have been leading a strike .
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Low morale among poorly paid health workers has led to strikes and lessened the quality of care.
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Northwest Airlines' mechanics are in the final stage of negotiations that could lead to a strike there next month.
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But these guys probably thought they would lead strikes or something.
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She held regular converse with her husband, who had died twenty-three years previously when leading a dockworkers' strike .
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They also started the 30-day countdown that could lead to a strike March 26 unless a contract is approved sooner.
stage
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He reportedly staged a hunger strike on May 24 in support of the demand for a Constitutional Assembly.
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Unemployed workers staged strikes , and hungry peasants in many areas seized estates and took over village councils.
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Trade unions are spreading: teachers staged a long strike last year.
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Not till ten years later, however, did the London dockers stage their great historic strike .
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They've already staged four one day strikes and this lunchtime they took their campaign to Downing Street.
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To prevent them being expressed, you stage a pre-emptive strike .
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For instance, when the political prisoners staged their hunger strike during the Pope's visit, we broadcast their demands.
threaten
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Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised.
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Students and unions threatened a general strike .
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The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
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The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk.
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They have threatened strikes , boycotts and demonstrations if the sale and break-up go ahead.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be struck all of a heap
be struck on sb/sth
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A fight breaks out and one man is struck on the head by a stick.
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A midday balance should be struck on the tabular ledger. 13.
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He was struck on the head with a club.
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I was struck on one of my artificial legs, damaging the calliper.
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In most cases, the balance is struck on the basis of judgement and experience.
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Profit is struck on an annual basis, and the time-frame and weighting of anticipated returns can vary greatly.
break a strike
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The company has threatened to hire 700 new workers in order to break the 10-month-old strike.
drive/strike a hard bargain
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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It could also be that Reilly, who has never knowingly sold himself short, is driving a hard bargain.
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So he was right to drive a hard bargain.
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The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
hit/strike home
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The reality of the war didn't hit home until someone from the neighborhood was killed.
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All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
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And to go back to your start-up page hit Home .
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By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home .
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His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
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It must have struck home in some way.
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She could see that her remark had hit home .
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They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
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Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home .
hit/strike paydirt
lightning never strikes twice
sit-down strike/protest
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Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.
strike/touch a chord (with sb)
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Clearly, what they do touches a chord in more than a few listeners.
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Her language may be a bit highbrow, but it strikes a chord with many of Britain's state school heads.
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His declarations have struck a chord on both sides of the House.
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Obviously, their messages have struck a chord among voters in Arizona and New Hampshire.
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One young man of John's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him.
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Somewhere, he touched a chord in his son.
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The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
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The plight of Gerald McClellan struck a chord in Jones.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Following a general strike and calls for his resignation, the President was arrested on 26 March.
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nuclear strike capability
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Shipbuilders and dockers were solidly in favour of strike action in support of their claim.
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Since the miners' strike , thirty of the mines in the area have been closed.
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The administration has officially asked transportation workers to call off their strike .
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The bomb strike took place on a camp near Krek.
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The offices were closed by a strike that lasted two months.
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The rebels launched a retaliatory strike .
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The roads were a nightmare as commuters were hit by a rail strike .
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When union bosses called a strike in protest over low pay, the response was overwhelming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A memorable strike from Paul Scholes and a deserved goal for the influential David Beckham completed a routine day for the champions.
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At first, they hated the strike .
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Barnett ruled a two-strike pitch from Shawn Boskie was a called third strike .
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In the long run, the outcome of the Delphi Chassis strike could be less important than the walkout itself.
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The settlement came after a week of escalating pressures on both sides to end the strike .
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Typical damage caused by a boom strike .