But knowing that trust has become precious and the ability to deliver it, as Mark Twain once said, is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The difference is, as Mark Twain once put it, like that between lightning and a lightning bug: Team Obama has unmistakably capitulated at the geo-strategic level and no amount of obfuscations about revised intelligence or "stronger, smarter and swifter" missile defense architectures will conceal that fact.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said a tree struck by lightning about a week ago sparked the mammoth blaze in his state.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
Five boys aged between 16 and 18 were admitted to hospital on Tuesday after a lightning bolt hit a cricket field at their school.
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If the imminent arrival of a new iPad doesn't bother you too much, refurbished units that carry the 3rd-generation moniker and lack a Lightning connection get a handsome discount this time around as well.
But Waldrum and his colleagues carried out a theoretical calculation of the risk of loss of life due to lightning in a similar building frequented by large numbers of people, in a similar setting - assuming the lack of any lightning protection.
That concluded a wild sequence in the Rangers' end that began with a 4-on-1 rush by the Lightning after a bad line change by the Rangers.
Dr Abrahamson believes that ball-lightning forms when a conventional lightning strike vaporises carbon and silicon oxides found in soil.
She now has a party, One Nation, which has turned itself into a lightning-rod for a populist, right-wing backlash from rural and small-town Australia (see article).
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Speaking to reporters at a press conference Tuesday, the hostages described an escape attempt, a lightning strike that killed a rebel guarding them and fearing for their lives.
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The accident occurred after one train stalled following a lightning strike, and then a second high-speed train ran into it.
This features a Lightning connector on one end and a mini HDMI on the other.
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"They're trying to catch lightning in a bottle, " says Lee Berke, a New York-based sports media consultant.
An attractive stranger with a lightning laugh jaywalks between cars with a friend, making eye contact before scurrying inside.
When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
If that monitor senses a lightning strike within 10 miles, a siren goes off, and every ballgame is immediately over.
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The Lightning have a 13-17-1 record and will likely miss the postseason again after reaching the conference finals during Boucher's first year.
It was, McCain would later say, like catching lightning in a bottle.
According to PC Mag, Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing a fire that left the center powerless.
The Lightning ended a three-game losing streak while Buffalo failed to make up ground in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Or you might call it lightning in a bottle.
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The extreme nationalist, rich, Liberal Democrats, led by Russia's de facto court jester, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who got 6%, act more as a lightning rod for the authorities than a serious political force.
Developers at Bioware are hoping to catch that same virtual lightning in a bottle with "Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, " the next chapter in the search for the Avatar of Britannia.
As the art directors scrambled to address last-minute requests and the copywriters (including yours truly) banged away on final, final versions of those blessed sentences no one supposedly reads anymore, it started raining hard as hell with thunder and lightning, a major rarity in Northern California.
He took a lightning catch to his left to end a confident innings, and leave England pleased to accept bad light for a second time, 25 minutes early.
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The banking sector in particular has been a lightning rod for public criticism, after a number of major banks in the United States and Britain received billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded rescue packages at the height of the crisis.
Creativity is often portrayed as a lightning bolt that strikes without warning, leaving a sudden burst of ideas in its wake.
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