striking
IPA: strˈaɪkɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something strikes or is struck.
adjective
- Making a strong impression.
- (non-comparable, of employees) On strike, taking part in industrial action.
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Examples of "striking" in Sentences
- The parallelism with this case is striking.
- The corruption of the Badal family is striking.
- From the 759 I culled out 180 that deserved the term striking.
- The inconsistency of the application of these rules is striking.
- Even the Republican-biased Rassmussen has Crist in striking distance if he runs as an independent.
- Also striking is how far the SG has stretched the usual rules for certiorari in pursuit of that goal.
- House of Representatives because Seante Republicans were successful in striking a few portions from thebill.
- The RNC, reportedly, distributed that money to states where Republican congressional candidates were in striking distance of Democratic incumbents.
- This should be an eye-opener for the Palin-phobics as she has been savaged by Dems and the media like no one before and yet remains within striking distance of Obama.
- But exactly how hot and how heavy depends on which side you are talking to, with Yahoo seeking to play it a bit cooler and Microsoft, according to many sources, aggressively interested in striking a deal.
- Now, it seems to me that in striking down long-standing sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, the court has opened up the obscenity standard to additional scrutiny, particularly with regard to post-Miller obscenity law.
- The problem is that even if the Thirteenth Amendment could be justified in striking down Jim Crow as an incident of slavery, it would not be sufficient for striking down similar laws in states where slavery never existed, like Illinois and Oregon.