Sentence examples for point of striking from inspiring English sources

FOR over three years Sunni insurgents have made a point of striking at Shia religious ceremonies that draw huge crowds of pilgrims to the country's main shrines: perfect targets for anyone wanting sectarian mayhem.

If there was a problem with Anglicised Fo, it was one, as Irving Wardle once pointed out, of striking the right balance between rampant farce and barbed satire.

Sarah Veale, head of employment rights at the Trades Union Congress, says any workforce driven to the point of strike action has a grievance reflecting "an underlying level of noise" in an unhappy workplace: "We need to have some kind of controlled means of that kind of grievance coming out".

The scope of this paper is to corroborate previous investigations and offer early damage detection capability by generating more experimental data points by optimizing location of the point of strike and thus generating more resonance vibration modes in NIRAS tests.

The rolling sphere theory is based on two assumptions: (a) the point of strike of lightning is determined when the downward leader approaches the earth or a structure with a striking distance, and (b) lightning strikes the nearest earth object from the orientation point and so its worst position is the center of a sphere which attaches several earth objects.

Just prior to the collapse of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger in December 2011, Dish Network CEO Joseph Clayton pointed out the possibility of striking a deal with T-Mobile in a bid to bolster Dish's coffers and light up its own wireless service.

But the conflict in Mindanao points both to the difficulty of striking political settlements with fractious rebels and of the dangers of fighting fire with fire.

It was only at that moment, he said, with a million arrow-points of sand striking his skin, that he had truly realized he was dead.

[But] it may succeed in averting a US [military] strike, and that may be a good thing because I don't see the point of a strike unless you are prepared to go on and follow it up.

"What is the point of this strike, of the million man marches?

Which is the whole point of a strike, really – to demonstrate that gap; that margin for negotiation.