Indeed he would be within striking distance of a bronze medallist, Ms Edith Bosch.

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Rep. Thomas Reynolds (R-NY), the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee who was among those party leaders who knew some details of l'affaire Foley as far back as last November, has an unexpected challenge for his Buffalo-area seat from Jack Davis, a well-financed businessman, who is thought to be within striking distance of victory.

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In this connection, ships equipped with nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missiles should be ostentatiously deployed within striking distance of North Korean targets.

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Even more ominous is the fact that some of those weapons are believed to be aboard cruise missile-armed submarines known to operate within striking distance of our coasts.

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Unsurprisingly, Bob Poe, the Democrats' state party chairman, concludes that to be competitive at all against such a background is to put yourself within striking distance of victory.

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But a clutch of leading players are within striking distance as World No.1 McIlroy and Woods could not be separated at the end of the second round.

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