But unlikely things do occur by chance sometimes--that's how people get struck by lightning or win the lottery.
But if we go launch and get struck by lightening or have some other problem, that will be very memorable.
Mr. Brown said his client only fled because he heard a gun shot and didn't want to get struck by a bullet.
The biggest stories will be shaped, over months and years, by this new landscape of brand and startup collisions: the deals that get struck, the light-bulbs that go off, and the relationships that form at SXSW but last far beyond it.
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Opponents are trying to get it struck down in the courts, a fight that is likely to last until at least next year.
And if their patents get curbed or struck down in the Samsung ruling (a coin toss at this point) they will not be able to tithe the other manufacturers into submission.
Whoever struck first would get the pick of the workforce and more favorable contracts for materials and services.
Jim Tom Haynes, a Washington-based immigration lawyer, said Mr. Wang's attempt to get asylum or refugee status struck him as "far-fetched, " particularly because the case appears to center around domestic Chinese matters.
Duncan never struck Rinty to get him to perform for cameras or audience, never gave him treats, but only held up his old squeaky toy, and then let the dog touch it after he had finished a given task.
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Mr Cofferati says he will go to the Constitutional Court to get the reform of Article 18 struck down.
Though they have been around for centuries and most Indians still do get married this way, what struck me and producer Tess Eastment was their growing acceptance among the young.
So the figures you get in April often reflects deals that were struck as much as 6 months earlier.
"Saving Justice" shows what a travesty that decision was and what a blow was struck thereby against the effort to get the Supreme Court to follow the rule of law.
When I was asked in 1988 by Science to write about economics fiscal relativity problem I was struck that the hard scientists could get this point so quickly and that so many economists could not.
So what does India get out of all these deals that have been struck and this visit?
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Livedoor managed to get several of Fuji's attempted defence manoeuvres struck down by the courts before Fuji's white knight came along.
"The first thing we are going to do is waive the fee for disposing of dead animals and then we need to wait a few weeks until we get a full picture about the disaster which has struck us, " he continued.
Now that the budget deal has been struck with the Liberal Democrats, we get to see the details of the Welsh government's "Economic Stimulus Package, " or how Labour here in Wales plan to spend the extra money they got because the UK coalition decided to freeze council tax in England.
The funny thing is I am not particularly star-struck -- as a CNN correspondent I get to interview and profile all sorts of "famous" people.
What struck me was that the students and I get a lot of positive attention for the trip and the fund raising we do for a deserving NGO in the country we visit but that the accounting manager at our Faculty gets neglected, but without her, we could not possibly go on the trip.
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Lastly, I want to thank Barack Obama, my host, for his show of leadership, and also point out that something that has always struck me about him, is his ability to get to the fundamentals, the root of issues, the root causes of things.
He could even get a real gold version of this tea set if the whim struck him.
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Second, even when the campaign struck the right balance, it couldn't always get the former president to the stick to the script.
But as an author who occasionally sells books, I was most struck by a new technique that Amazon is using to get people to buy.
Just after the half-hour mark the visiting keeper did even better to get down to his left and keep out Obinna's fiercely struck right-foot shot as Birmingham's defence continued to look suspect in front of him.
Driven by a desire to get bigger in the exploding options market, rival Nasdaq in 2007 struck deals to buy the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Stockholm-based OMX (this last deal is being done with Borse Dubai).
But a passing motorist who parked his truck in the church drive-through to get out of the dangerous weather had a close call when the storm struck.
But a passing motorist who parked his truck in the church's covered driveway to get out of the dangerous weather had a close call when the storm struck.
This week, as Enron's former finance chief, Andrew Fastow, and his wife, Lea, struck a plea bargain with prosecutors that will see Mr Fastow get a ten-year sentence, there were stirrings of sympathy for the couple.
Fossil also offered a slick LCD watch with its Philippe Starck O-Ring Digi Watch for Fossil, which provides a clear visual reminder of when its time to get your wrist hair waxed, but the hipsters at Tokyo Flash have struck out with the JLr7. a timepiece that brings incredible complexity to what should be a simple act of telling time.
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