Households buy insurance against the possibility that their homes may be struck by lightning.
Monash University's Trounson puts the Raelians' chances of actually having a human clone at less than the chance that a person will be struck by lightning.
Yet there is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not itself be struck down by activist courts.
It was hard then as it is hard now not to be struck by the magnitude of this event.
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NAO's reports will be struck by how understated the language is.
Spectators will be struck by the excellence of its acoustics.
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But foreigners may be more struck by continuity at Westminster than change.
After a street-side banquet, cap the day with a midnight tour of the riverside flower market and be struck anew by Bangkok's unexpected grace.
The fact that he would be able to demand generous compensation for complainants sounds attractive, but ultimately the cost of this would be borne by non-complaining customers, so a balance has to be struck.
Officials had said the missile would not be fired until the space shuttle Atlantis landed, which it did Wednesday morning, to ensure the shuttle would not be struck by any debris from the destroyed satellite.
Visit the area around Vicenza, in the north-east, which has an array of small family companies, or look at ceramics companies in the cluster around Sassuolo, in the centre of Italy, and you will be struck by the energy and skills on display.
You won't put your profile up and be struck by lightning with the perfect person for you.
The man he was fighting then appears to be struck repeatedly by a police officer wielding a baton.
It is impossible not to be struck by the fecundity of this great 20th-century artist.
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Mr Cameron said anyone watching the riots would be "struck by how they were organised via social media".
The Securities Industry Association, the lobbying group for the brokerage industry, is considering whether to argue that the Utah law be struck down or is subject to preemption by federal securities laws.
Non-essential staff were evacuated from the North Sea Producer, which is the closest rig to the incident, as a precaution, but it is not thought to be in any immediate danger of being struck by the drifting vessel.
First, you may be struck by the consistency at the very top, year to year.
Mr Sharaa himself has generated enormous expectations among Syrians by saying that a deal could be struck within two months.
But if we go launch and get struck by lightening or have some other problem, that will be very memorable.
As I watched Sony unveil the PlayStation 4 at a press conference on February 20th, I was struck by how much data the new device would be collecting from its users.
United's Rio Ferdinand spoke briefly to host Dermot O'Leary after suffering a cut eye as he appeared to be struck by an object thrown during the celebrations at the end of the match.
Liberals who want the act struck down should be discomfited by the reason the court should give when doing this.
Nevertheless, having spent a pleasant couple of hours up at Girdwood, it was impossible not to be struck by the potential for a change of fortune in the historically troubled north Belfast.
Should Obamacare be struck down or crippled, the Roberts court will be seen by many as politically slanted.
Under the quota deal struck by ministers in December, cod catches will be cut by nearly half for 2001.
Police are continuing to investigate how a car came to be on a Oxfordshire level crossing when it was struck by a train killing an elderly passenger.
Variyar was struck by how Ramnath never had a standard spiel when she met would-be investors.
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And a traveler cannot but be struck on his journey by the thought that this country, one day, can be even greater.
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