Sentence examples for it would be striking from inspiring English sources

The system cannot be reformed by the government because it would be striking at the very mechanism by which it rules.

"What is paradoxical here is that Centcom says it informed the Russian military it would be striking the area, which they had struck many times previously," said Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

If Z-curve were a measure of GC content, it would be striking that gene recognition can be achieved with a high accuracy [ 18, 21, 22, 24] based solely on GC content.

The director thought that it would be striking to juxtapose the sandy columns of the Southwest against the "glass mountains" of one of America's big cities.

If the Obama Administration were to sacrifice this goal merely to garner the support of some C.E.O.s in another battle it is already winning, it would be striking a terrible bargain.

If so, that could make it even harder for Tony Blair to push Britain towards joining the euro.Since the issue of Europe has bedevilled the Tories throughout the 1990s, it would be striking if it now started to play to their advantage.

But several legal experts said it was far from certain that it would be struck down in a court.

By the eve of the Court's ruling, the market put the odds that it would be struck down at nearly 80%.

It is under pressure from the City to secure a deal to supply an international retailer with its technology, while Amazon's expansion into grocery could hurt sales in the UK. Rose said he is confident a deal will be done, despite Ocado boss Tim Steiner saying it would be struck in 2015.

In the unlikely event that Congress were to adopt legislation making it a crime to use words or symbols that look violent or threatening to public officials, as proposed by one member in reaction to the attack on Congresswoman Giffords, it would be struck down by the courts.

A former adviser cited by the government as the inspiration for the plan, Bret Walker, says he never backed it, believes it would be struck down by the high court, and is "unimpressed" that the government keeps claiming him as a supporter.