Sentence examples for striking supply from inspiring English sources

Chinese companies have been on the prowl around the world over the past few years, striking supply contracts and buying corporate stakes that secure long-term access to oil, iron ore, rare earth metals and other natural resources.

The choreographers and dancers Stacy Dawson and David Neumann -- hailed for their work with Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, as well as for their own theatrically based pieces -- are striking performers who supply any project with spontaneity, honesty and hilarity.

Last year, the National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated that cocaine was selling for £56 per gram (equivalent to £56,000 per kilo) but the current London price is said to be around £40 per gram.The falling price of powder is especially striking considering the supply problems of recent years.

In her first combat operation of the Korean War, Iowa fired her main guns near Wonsan-Sŏngjin on 8 April 1952, with the goal of striking North Korean supply lines.

Radislav Krstic, a window washer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, supplied a striking abstract painting of sharply twirled reds, oranges and black.

Alton Joja, a sangoma (traditional healer) who reportedly supplied the striking workers with charms they believed would protect them against police bullets, was shot and killed in March by unknown assailants.

Wilson had been witness to the condition of workers in Appalachia and Detroit — after bringing relief supplies to striking miners in Pineville, Kentucky, he was run out of town by the local authorities — and although he was suspicious of the Communist Party, he welcomed the Crash as a portent of the death of capitalism, and he embraced Marxism.

My Cannes mobile went bazonkers and started texting itself, and striking power workers cut the supply to half the town and for a few hours it felt like 1968 all over again.

The first UNICEF supplies arrived in the Philippines within 72 hours of Typhoon Haiyan striking, supplementing pre-positioned UNICEF supplies in the country.

The reluctance was particularly striking at Stenger, an office-supply store in downtown Frankfurt.

A bright note is supplied by two striking, illuminated mosaics in sunny colors in the foyer, and two more inside the restaurant.