More recently Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses struck strongly home.
Speaking at a rally of the faithful, Mr. Sarkozy struck "strongly conservative notes on immigration, Islam and protectionism," as my colleague Steven Erlanger reports, threatening to suspend French participation in the Schengen open-borders group and pushing for "Buy European" legislation.
PAGE A9 SARKOZY GIVES ROUSING TALK Trailing in opinion polls six weeks before the election, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, gave a rousing address to some 50,000 supporters on Sunday, striking strongly conservative notes on immigration, Islam and protectionism.
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy, trailing in opinion polls six weeks before the election, gave a rousing address to some 50,000 supporters on Sunday, striking strongly conservative notes on immigration, Islam and protectionism.
The meeting struck a strongly nationalist tone and seemed aimed at generating the kind of grass-roots movement that has swept the Middle East.
After all the posturing is over, here's the deal that may well be struck: Americans strongly doubt that Europe will put up the money to pay for an independent force; such talk of a force independent of NATO will never amount to more than talk.
While the hosts will fancy striking back strongly with Sekope Kepu and Christian Lealiifano back in their starting XV, the loss of Pocock for the next six weeks is a major setback.
Mr. Martin and Mr. Zedillo would be welcome at any corporate dining room on Wall Street or financiers' dinner party, but it was striking how strongly their view of Occupy Wall Street differed from the conventional wisdom among American business elites.
My bet is that once Apple finally goes all-in on TV, Google will strike back strongly, very much like it did with its Android mobile operating system.
It strikes Plato strongly that this arrangement is not fortuitous, but the outcome of the deliberate intent of Intellect (nous), anthropomorphically represented by the figure of the Craftsman who plans and constructs a world that is as excellent as its nature permits it to be.
Indeed, the ad itself strikes a strongly positive tone, which the campaign likely hopes will contrast well with the attacks and cries of doom coming from the fairly heated and crowded GOP primary unfolding on the other side.
