Sentence examples for has struck hard from inspiring English sources

Time and money might be better spent helping fishing communities find alternative employment in Sicily, where the eurozone crisis has struck hard and unemployment is at 20%.

While fears of a flu pandemic among humans have shifted from the lethal H5N1 avian flu to the relatively mild H1N1 swine flu, the H3N8 canine flu has been a quiet undercurrent in the United States, rarely discussed except among veterinarians and dog owners in the few areas where it has struck hard: Florida, New York City's northern suburbs, Philadelphia and Denver.

The stock market decline has struck hard against retirement savings, but we can be confident that most workers' portfolios will recover.

Personally I think the crowdfunding story has struck hard and deep because it's as significant a shift as going from physical to digital shopping.

For Kentucky, this has struck hardest at the breeding sector, on which most of the 100,000 industry-related jobs depend.

While Chicago's violent police legacy has struck hardest at its poor, black and brown citizens, the financial costs are more widespread.

None of the rockets fired during the night appeared to have hit their targets, but they seem to have panicked the French crews; dawn the following morning revealed that both frigates had cut their anchors and drifted onto the shore, Elisa in particular had struck hard and heeled over onto her side.

A wave of violence has struck particularly hard in Honduras, whose institutions are still recovering from a coup in 2009.

But now that the Phoenix has struck a hard white material beneath the Martian dirt, it is Honeybee's own custom-made scoop that is responsible for digging and collecting.

She has struck a hard balance here — in the economical use of off-the-shelf steel components, in a logical but accommodating master plan for the 11-acre site — between making a place that will work and a place that people will want to talk about.

Unsurprisingly then, the nation's housing collapse has struck exurbs hardest.