We can't control nature, but we can and must be prepared for disaster when it strikes.
"Crime in general is nebulous or out there but when it strikes next to you, you think 'it could be me, '" Trainum said.
Enabling workers to be productive from anywhere at any time allows people to be creative when it strikes, and work without constantly checking their watches or seeking to escape from their cubicles.
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Fear pops up when something matters, when it really hits your soul and strikes a nerve.
When light strikes a CCD, it excites the electrons in the chip, creating a grid of charged elements or pixels (for picture elements).
When a hurricane strikes, as it did with Katrina, we have to have a FEMA that works, which by the way, means that we should be encouraging young people, the best and the brightest, to get involved as civil servants, to pursue careers of public service so we've got people who are trained in federal emergency management who are able to take on the job.
There are already enough strikes against young women when it comes to dressing office appropriate.
Also worth note, Instacube sports a built-in rechargeable battery, allowing it to operate completely untethered when the mood strikes.
But unless something is done to defeat the disease, years from now people who are today young and strong will be fighting it, and -- when the disease strikes their favorite actors, athletes and singers who are in 2012 so full of youth and energy, and who will inevitably grow old -- they, too, will be reminded of the passing years, and of life's memories lost and found.
When cancer strikes, the patient may never know it, so poky is the pace of this invader.
The country now risks something few Bangladeshis want to see: a repetition of the turmoil caused by strikes called by the Awami League when it was in opposition.
When a hurricane strikes the U.S. Northeast it only seems unusual because during recent decades, as global warming has gradually occurred, once-frequent Northeast hurricane strikes have almost ceased to exist.
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"When (EV drivers) starting paying more than gas, it strikes as reverse discrimination, " Friedland says.
It promotes clear decision making under pressure, resilience when adversity strikes, and courage under pressure.
The day when cancer no longer strikes terror in the heart of those diagnosed with it may not be far away (see article).
And when Andy Dorman managed a few strikes at Cerny's goal, it looked like the home side were beginning to take a grip of the game.
BBC: Alex Neil (r) and Steven Thomson in action at St Mirren Park
When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
It was as if I was in one of those movies when a scene strikes a subject so hard that all he can do is marvel in slow motion, unable to process the myriad of overwhelming stimuli.
It has been hit by a series of strikes since June 2011, when workers went on a 13-day strike demanding the recognition of a new union.
More importantly, it is hard to predict if these long-term commitments will work accordingly when disaster strikes.
When a flu spreads, or an earthquake strikes, or cartels threaten innocent people, it affects lives on both sides of our common border.
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Obama announced new "presidential policy guidelines" last week on the standards his administration has been using when deciding to launch lethal strikes, including a guideline to strike a target only if it presents an "imminent threat" to U.S. national security and only if the target cannot be captured.
It wasn't CNN or even the BBC who were in Kabul broadcasting exclusive pictures when the air strikes began, but Al-Jazeera, until then a little-heard-of Arab TV station.
Although lightning frequently strikes the tundra, the landscape is typically fairly moist and so rarely ignites, and even when it does, the flames don't spread very far, burn very deeply or remain alight for very long.
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