Sentence examples for as a first strike from inspiring English sources

Mr Osborne's proposed benefits squeeze may be seen as a first strike in that campaign.

A successful counterforce attack that rendered retaliation impossible known as a "first strike"—would be strategically decisive.

This counted as a first strike in YouTube's termination procedure.

As a first strike, the company is trying to chip away at the Symbian alliance in the mobile-phone arena attempting to lure handset manufacturers to CE. "I'm not sure what the commitment of Symbian players as a whole is to that relationship.

With two out in the ninth, Dale Mitchell, pinch-hitting for Maglie, who had pitched a five-hitter, looked at a third strike as the Yankees won, 2-0.

The missiles now have two principal roles in America's nuclear-war plans: they can be launched as part of a first strike, or they can be launched when early-warning satellites have determined that Russian warheads are heading toward the United States.

The logic of a first strike, such as it is, is based on the calculation that a surprise nuclear attack could inflict the "nuclear alternative" on your adversary, while sparing your own side from suffering a comparable fate.

After its ruling in the Andrade case last November, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in another three-strikes case in February, holding that petty theft cannot serve as a third strike even if the prior offenses had been violent felonies.

And after what the White House saw as a third strike this month — Mr. Boehner's humiliating public rejection of Mr. Obama's requested date for an address to a joint session of Congress — the Obama team called Mr. Boehner out.

He held on, qualifying it as a third strike.

(There is an exception to this exception: a two-strike foul bunt is recorded as a third strike).