'strikes' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to talk about physical or figurative blows, or to mean the act of stopping work as a form of protest. Example sentence: The workers went on strike to protest their unfair pay.
And if you detect it among your staff, can you fix it before disaster strikes?
Pride strikes a populist balance, but there's clearly an appetite for that serious, difficult, unsexy social realism too.
US military strikes will only embolden them to delay further.
As well as whalers' harpoons, whales must navigate the dangers of ship strikes, entanglements in shipping nets and other ocean apparatus, disorientating man-made ocean noises, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, climate change and pollution.
Satellite images show the city, a Unesco world heritage site, before and after missile strikes launched by government forces.
The Ebola response in Sierra Leone has been dogged by strikes by healthcare staff over pay and working conditions.
"Zaha strikes back!" read one comment on Twitter.
"He kept saying 'al-Jazeera, al-Jazeera', and then he said: 'We have to arrest her,'" Marroushi said, in a story that strikes a chord with anyone reporting in Egypt.
What strikes me about Dai is his courtesy, desire to be fair and melodious Welsh accent, like a boat on an up-and-down sea.
The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and US surveillance programs.
A Saudi-led coalition began air strikes in Yemen in March in a campaign to restore Yemeni president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.
