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The public health community has an important role to play in demonstrating the magnitude of tobacco's threat to public health and calling on governments to strip away the trademark protections, rights to sue and opportunities to lobby that big tobacco uses to bully public representatives.
Her great aunt Nina revealed that her first period arrived as she was about to be strip searched while fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, and "the most powerful part," says Kauder Nalebuff, "was that she had never told anyone about this before.
"So when you strip everything down, every single player needs to go away and have a look at themselves, have a look at their techniques, have a look at the way they bowl, and you start rebuilding again, and that real hunger and desire has to come from within to do it".
"That's one that haunts me," shivers Garry Trudeau, now celebrating the 25th anniversary of the cartoon strip that 300 American papers have taken from the comic pages to run on the editorial page.
But in France, where the bandes dessinées are a national cult, it is hard to find outside the International Herald Tribune, or the US military paper Stars And Stripes, which was the first paper that tried to drop the strip as "too political".
With violence surging in eastern Ukraine and EU-Russia relations getting ever chillier, Moscow threatened to quit the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based human rights body which has nothing to do with the EU, after the council's parliamentary assembly, grouping MPs from the member states, voted narrowly to strip Russia of its voting rights.
He'd then strip them for parts, just as earlier hip-hop producers would mine funk seven-inches for samples.
It may not be a picture-perfect moment, but it's all part of the cartoon strip that made up our love story.
People found guilty of antisocial behaviour, vandalism, gambling or going to strip clubs will be placed on the list for two years and will face additional, unspecified punishments.
Rudd was elected leader of the Labour Party last year and his campaign to be prime minister could have hit the rails in August, when it was revealed that he had spent a drunken night in a New York strip club in 2003.
Obama added that Israel had already done significant damage to Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip.
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The word "strip" functions both as a verb , indicating an action of removing or taking away, and as a noun , referring to a long, narrow piece or area. Ludwig AI highlights its versatile usage in various contexts. As a verb, its forms include "strips", "stripping", and "stripped".
Expression frequency: Very common
