Sentence examples for fair strike from inspiring English sources

Four awards, announced today by English PEN to coincide with the opening of the London Book Fair, strike a modest blow against such parochialism.

She comes from an in-form yard, will be ridden by a jockey with a fair strike-rate and could outrun her odds.

Tomorrow, the Fiells will launch their own eponymous global publishing company at the London Book Fair, striking out on their own with 15 initial titles, three of which are penned by the couple themselves, covering pure design topics as well as issues with which they are not so closely associated, such as food and ecology.

It butted up against the city's famed River Walk, and redeveloping it for the Fair struck local leadership as an essential strategy for metro-wide growth.

The court ruled that, as long as the SEC's deal with Citi was "fair and reasonable" (striking the word "adequate") and that "the public interest would not be disserved," Judge Rakoff would have to approve it.

Vanity Fair caricatures strike a pose on the walls.

Why do you think these questions about fair competition strike such a chord with people, and do you see any chance for these controversies to result in a completely new idea of fair competition in sports?

The measures I have announced are fair and strike the right balance for local communities and the British taxpayer".

Voter ID laws have been both upheld as fair and struck down as discriminatory.

Plus, as a target for an internet prank, the 'Belieber phenomenon' seems fair game, striking as it does a high point in the commercialisation of teenage desire.

True or false: Any time a fair ball strikes an umpire, the ball is dead, the batter is awarded first, and the other runners advance only if forced out.