It was put in place to help protect the space shuttle from bird strike damage.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Well,I suppose it doesn't strike me as an implausible thing to say that if everybody in the troop got killed and you would have gotten killed had you been there, but instead,the person you hired to take your place gets killed, then he took your place.

我想可以这么说,如果大家都被杀死，而你若是在战场上也被杀了，但被杀的却是你花钱雇来的人，他就代替了你。

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To another,it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

He says first,it was a strike against the local authorities, who militants see as being too loyal to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Unions have called for a nationwide strike in September, against plans to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Do you know that? We saw her on Monday,". "We asked her to stop it and she said she will think it over, but last night she stopped her hunger strike.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06