Sentence examples for as it strikes from inspiring English sources

"Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas," said Jack Ohman, the organization's president and a cartoonist at the Sacramento Bee.

In the middle of "Winter," the movie loses its footing by abruptly straining for something more ambitious as it strikes a grandiose Felliniesque note.

This just may be another in a series of positioning statements, or a hint that Sun is finally getting its arms around the impact of the Great Recession as it strikes at the company's strategic customer base in the financial community.

Electric photographing lightning as it strikes the Empire State Bldg.

This gives rise to the common forked appearance of lightning as it strikes the ground.

But the civil servants' bill might be tougher to pass as it strikes at the heart of the government itself.

Even so, as it struck on a weekend, its effects were generally minor and mostly limited to travel delays, traffic accidents, and business closures.

A heat wave caused a brownout in New York City, and as it struck, m zero automatically shut itself down, to protect its circuits, and died.

You could hear the plink of metal as it struck the painted wood floor.

Its fee-related earnings for the quarter rose 22.6 percent, to $116.6 million, as it struck more deals.

In the cold war the West confronted and contained the Soviet Union even as it struck pragmatic arms-control deals.