Word: striking
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...king. The king of the city-state of Argos (which looks remarkably similar to Minas Tirith of the “Lord of the Rings” films) decides to wage war on the gods by destroying a statue of Zeus and issuing a city-wide prayer strike. After he is convinced by a resentful Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Zeus (Liam Neeson), decked out in his fabulous glitter suit, orders the destruction of Argos and the massacre of its citizens as a deterrent to other mortals who may plan to cook their rabbits instead of sacrificing them...
...feel like they really did as Jesus would do? Were they really living what they said? In many ways, yes. The selflessness that I saw there, the willingness to sacrifice, was very impressive to me. But I think there's [also] a lot of bigotry there that did not strike me as being synonymous with Jesus' attitude. I think their attitude toward the gay community - love the sinner, hate the sin - is very disingenuous because what it's like in practice is that they are both repulsed and amused by gay people. To me it's less important that they...
Although the militants failed to breach the compound's security, the multipronged assault was the most serious strike against an American diplomatic mission in the country since 1979, when the U.S. embassy in the capital of Islamabad was overrun and torched by university students in response to the siege of Mecca by Saudi religious insurgents. Other attacks have followed. In Peshawar in 2008, a U.S. diplomat narrowly escaped a Taliban ambush as she drove to work. Two years earlier, an American diplomat's car was rammed by an explosives-laden vehicle in Karachi, killing him and several other people...
Junior Zach Hofeld then came to the mound for the Crimson and was able to strike out one batter before the end of the frame...
...agreements. And the goals of the two conferences even have the backing of hawkish U.S. critics of Obama's Iran policy. "These programs are worthwhile, and they were continued in [the] Bush [Administration]," says John Bolton, who represented the previous Administration at the U.N. and who advocates a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities...