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You don't see light between bodies in space and the sun, yet we know it's there because it strikes the bodies and produces illumination when it is destroyed.

After considering precedent, reason, and policy, the authors urge the Court of Appeals to continue use of the reasonable officer standard, because it strikes the best balance between governmental, societal, and individual concerns.

The time point of 18 months (corrected for gestation at birth) was chosen because it strikes the best balance between feasibility of follow up and certainty in the diagnosis of neurosensory disability.

Syracuse was his choice, he said, because it struck the perfect balance.

We were hit by an IED (improvised explosive device) or RPG (rocket-propelled grenade), which set our truck on fire because it struck the battery and fuel line.

Immediate suspicion fell on Al Qaeda, in part because it struck the American Embassy in Kenya in 1998 and also because it is known to have used Russian missiles in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Everyone should read it, both for the example it sets of the highest standards of intellect and principle, and because it strikes at the heart of the dilemma of our time: the way our democracy and its institutions are being subjected to manipulation, cover-up and dishonesty of purpose, to the extent that they can even be bought by outsiders.

It is interesting because it strikes at the heart of the notion that the Red Planet was awash with water, perhaps at its surface, more than 3.75 billion years ago - an idea that has been put forward to explain the great abundance of some clay deposits observed from orbit by satellites.

Creating a network operating system -- an idea that Microsoft once opposed -- is a real shift in strategy, and a particularly daring one because it strikes at the heart of the bitterly contested federal antitrust lawsuit that Microsoft is now appealing.

The provision that would prohibit banks from trading derivatives has alarmed the industry because it strikes at the combination of commercial banking and Wall Street trading that defines the modern industry.

And the violation is all the more painful because it strikes at the very heart of a moral code that makes France so gloriously different from other western societies.