It was thought that such a striking, and strikingly photographed, monologue would make the rest of the picture seem anticlimactic.

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As her high school friends continued on to college, Holly took a different path - striking out on her own to make music.

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Yet in devolved Scotland there is little of the cultural nationalism that is so striking in Wales, and which might make it hard for a party seen as English to do well.

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Cueto responded to the pep talk by striking out six of his last seven batters, then Jay Bruce helped make him a winner by hitting a tiebreaking home run that carried the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets on Monday night.

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Striking works by Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Ivan Kliun, and other Russians make for a superb cameo survey within the show.

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If you insure 100 people in 100 different towns against a tornado striking, you collect premiums and then, when a tornado strikes one of those towns, you make the payout to one claimant and the premiums from the rest cover it.

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