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Most immigrants contribute to society, most want to become good British citizens and most strike me as more like us with every rainy day that passes.
5) Antonio Cassano's swerving 30-yard strike against Fiorentina was as glorious as it was futile.
The facts of the actual strike are jettisoned in favour of a ticking-clock climax whereby Scargill/Pacino must race to parliament on a motorbike and make a tear-jerking speech before the miners blow up Sellafield.
As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
But the ComRes study – of 1,000 people across the 40 seats currently held by Labour – shows that voters are evenly split on whether the SNP should strike a deal at Westminster, with SNP voters far more uncertain about the case for a deal than the party's leadership.
A US drone strike has killed at least six suspected al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen today, officials said.
A strike at the BBC followed, and upon his return Milne, fought the governors, arguing the programme should be broadcast.
Ancelotti was forced to make a change when Gregory van der Wiel came on for the injured Christophe Jallet in the 27th minute but it was not until after the break that his side were punished for their lacklustre performance by Jonas's fine strike.
His tally of 486 runs in eight innings in the tournament, at an average of more than 60 and a strike rate of 87, is second only to Glamorgan's Jacques Rudolph, and has included half-centuries in the quarter and semi-final victories over Essex and Kent respectively, as well as two centuries during the group stage.
You get annoyed about things in real life and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
Despite government claims that it had reached a deal with junior doctors, Dr Jeredine George, the president of the Junior Doctors Associationn, told Reuters that its members would strike for a fourth day on Thursday.
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The word "strike" functions as both a noun and a verb . As a verb, it signifies hitting or impacting something, or the act of workers protesting. As a noun, it denotes an instance of striking or a labor stoppage. Ludwig AI confirms its versatile usage through numerous examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
