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I think they're coming around. We strike out four or fewer times per game, and that's excellent. It's a whole lot easier to get yourself hitting if you're already (making contact) than to get yourself hitting from striking out. If we continue to push and feel positive, it'll happen if we make it happen.

It is difficult to make any kind of an accurate prediction of how many of these will strike land, ... But I think statistically you can look at the fact that when seasons are more active, and we have a higher level of hurricanes, you have a higher chance of hurricanes striking the United States.

I'm striking out way too much. I'm not making any adjustments, either.

I'm striking out way too much. I'm either hitting the ball out of the park, getting an extra-base hit - or I'm striking out.

I'm still striking out more than I'd like to, but we've got some real hitters in this lineup. It's a lot easier when there's other hitters teams are afraid of.

We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.

The 2006 Chrysler 300 with the Great American Package offers entry-level customers the striking proportions and distinctive styling of the Chrysler 300 with the safety features, technologies and interior enhancements they desire. With an MSRP of about $25,600, the 2006 Chrysler 300 equipped with this package also offers a great value versus our key competitors and to buyers who shop both domestic and import offerings.

That was one of the most striking findings. We were surprised how many people already have significant risk factors.

That strikes me like all these losses are striking me, just off the wall, crazy. Where is this all coming from? Where is this going? It seemed like a plague over this team. If we play like we did (Saturday), I think we'll win a lot more games this half of the ACC than we did the first half.

That stops the big inning right there. It kept a guy at first and allowed us to stay in striking distance against Santana.

That's the most important thing in my mind, to keep this game within striking distance, ... If we can do that and not beat ourselves and not give up some of the big plays, make them do things methodically and slowly, the longer we can keep this thing going into the fourth quarter. Then it becomes a play here or a play there.

That's the most I can remember anyone striking out in all my time here. We didn't go to the plate with a mission, and we didn't make any adjustments.

I wasn't getting hits but I felt like I was swinging the bat OK. I wasn't striking out. I was comfortable up there, so I wasn't really worried about it.

I wasn't allowed to throw big hooks and overhand rights until I'd been striking for three years. It's so you don't rely on those things from the very beginning. If your footwork sucks, and you can only stand in one place and throw your hands all crazy while the other person is running around, you're never going to be able to hit them.

I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

When the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered the craziest ruling in American history by striking down the Pledge of Allegiance three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and stopped the insanity. The lower courts striking down the pledge again is like a dog returning to its vomit.

We can play better. If we can make up 10 strokes, we can do it. That's asking two strokes per man, and that's not asking a lot, so we're within striking distance.

We do well when the games are close. The problem is, when we get behind too early and too big, we can't dig ourselves out of it. We want to keep it within striking distance and hopefully jump out to a lead.

We were striking guys out with the high fastball,

We needed to make some plays that we missed in order to win. We had a few mental mistakes, but I was happy that we were within striking distance to win as the guys played hard.

We needed to be strong after we got the lead, but we let them back in it. We need to beat this team since we have eight games with them. We have some games left with Montreal, so we need to stay within striking distance.

We've been getting in the hole a lot lately. This weekend, we need to start striking first.

We fought hard. Their zone hurt us early, and we struggled a little bit, but we were still able to maintain and stay within striking distance.

We were keen to add to our striking options and we welcome the opportunity to bring Florent here.

We were in striking distance most of the game, so maybe that's something positive that we can take away. But your immediate reaction after the game as a competitor is that you don't like to lose.

We are on the ground with them. We are providing airstrikes against targets that our U.S. service members on the ground with the opposition forces are able to identify as proper targets, and we are striking those,

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

We played well enough to win, but we didn't shoot well enough to win. We couldn't put the ball in the basket. We had easy looks. We were within striking distance and could never get over the hump.

We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response.

We are looking at a number of different striking options and we are currently reviewing them all,

You look at this floor and you see a striking polarity. It's the market--people who say they want fuel economy and others who say they want power. We try to give them both.

We are nearing three months on strike. We have a duty to send this to the membership for a vote. It's democracy at its finest. The strikers at Boeing have the final say on whether to keep striking or not.

We of course have no interest in striking civilians and are always sorry over civilians who were struck,

We walked 17 (batters) tonight, 13 by the end of the third inning. We've walked 41 in three games. It's kind of weird. We're striking out the side one inning and walking four the next. Monterey embarrassed us tonight. They stole home twice. We threw them out twice, but they stole home twice.

We are witnesses to one of the most striking examples of climate change in the Arctic.

We are within striking distance of being one of the top three teams here, but it comes down to the semifinal round.

We are starting with a premier example of architectural history - a 1929 art-deco masterpiece - and transforming it into Philadelphia's most exclusive condominium. We believe that The Ayer's location on Washington Square, striking interior and exterior design features, and its amenity-rich environment, provides buyers with a truly one-of-a-kind and distinctive residence.

We are short in the striking department and we need to act.

To the casual observer, one of the most striking things about President Bush's State of the Union address was his wholesale adaptation of the Democratic Party's rhetoric regarding energy. Veterans on all sides of the energy debate in Washington cannot fail to detect a strong whiff of political cynicism in the air.

The passenger kept making several attempts underneath the seat, kept refusing the officers' request. The officer saw him pull something out and the officer fired one shot, striking him in the groin.

We were the first melting pot city in America. It's striking that those great waves of immigration from Mexico passed us by.

We were surprised that Sikorsky was a no-show after the company's non- stop rhetoric about wanting to negotiate. The empty chairs show Sikorsky's true motive -- to try to break the resolve of striking Teamsters. And that's a lost cause because Teamsters don't back down.

We've got to do a better job. I felt confident we had the right people out there to get it done and it didn't happen. We can't be striking out with men in scoring position, and when it does, you lose ball games.

With our defense, we made it clear to both of them that they?re not there to strike people out. Their job is to not give up walks and don?t put the ball down the middle of the plate. They can strike people out, but we don?t want to put that kind of pressure on them. Right now, we have enough to win the game without them striking people out.

Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them

We will move all of our striking teams to residential areas. They will no longer conduct offensive operations to seek and destroy GAM,

There have been a heck of a lot of storms in the Caribbean in the last 11 years. You've dodged a bunch of them. In any one year the probability of a major storm striking the Virgin Islands is low, but you'll at least be watching more storms pass to the north and south of you than in the down period from 1970 to 1994.

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.

To see this effect in such a large population is quite striking and is surprising.

What is striking is that it didn't take much to reduce the risk ... If you don't exercise, you should start. It's never too late.

What is so striking about the 50-year period since independence is the extent to which African states have suffered so many of the same misfortunes, ... a flamboyant, autocratic figure, accustomed to living in style and demanding total obedience.

We can officially say we're in striking distance. It's still going to be a battle though because we're still behind.

What was so striking about Joey was the fact that he helped reach out to other kids and tried to help them with living, whether or not they have this disease. I thought that was pretty exceptional. It showed an extreme amount of kindness on his part and courage and time and a lot of sacrifice.

We got some wins we did not expect to get. We had some losses that we thought would be wins. The 43-24, score is a matter of a couple of matches. We were in striking distance of our ninth-straight sectional title.

We got some clutch hitting in this one. It was good to see us put the ball in play and make things happen with two outs. We've been striking out some early on and now we're getting the ball in play and putting pressure on the defense.

We feel like we have a chance to win every series we get involved in. If we can put the ball in play, keep guys from striking out, maybe getting on with some errors and forcing the other team to make plays, we'll be able to win some games.

This new information paints a disturbing picture of our economic landscape. The governor said in his State of the State address that more people are working than ever before. We now see that is not the case. And what is striking is that job growth is so strong in many other states.

We are very pleased with the business we have been able to conclude. We were very keen to add to our striking options.

We went into the locker room and we could have been in a better situation, but we missed some free throws. We were pleased and played the style of game that we wanted to. We kept ourselves within striking distance, but it was unfortunate that they went on that run.

Both of these gentlemen were striking the man and one of the brothers was kicking him while he was on the ground.

Bringing him on a month's loan will help to buy us time while we continue to pursue a long-term striking option.

Everyone's striking the ball really well. We have a real solid team. Everyone has improved since last year.

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitude, striking the landings. Every detail matters.

Dustin did a great job to start with. He has, I think, a couple of 3-0 counts and came back and got guys out. We were sluggish to start with, but Dustin kept us in there. He didn't have good stuff, but he kept us in striking distance.

Each time we appeared on the verge of striking back, we would have a crucial turnover to hurt us.

The wind really made the conditions tough today. We had to count some pretty high scores that we normally would not. By being down only 13 strokes, we are within striking distance, but we will need to play well.

They all contributed and we have put ourselves within striking distance heading into the final round, which was our goal.

The robust appreciation rates are striking both in terms of their magnitude and in their geographic scope. However, they are likely unsustainable given the underlying inflation rate, income growth and other factors,

It was a new pitcher and I was just thinking sit back and wait for your pitch. Especially with a lefty, I wanted to keep my shoulder in. I didn't want to pull that out and just put the ball in play. That's my main thing when I'm up to bat just put the ball in play and make something happen. Nothing's going to happen striking out. I ended up getting hit.

The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

The striking thing is that whoever is doing these is not fully explaining why they are doing it.

The striking thing is just the falseness of the claim that 1.4 million jobs are created, in light of their own model. There's a basic element of fraud in that claim.

The striking thing about this is that hair-loss syndrome is just not consistent from one valley to the next. There are places where it is much more severe and other locations where it really doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Regionally there seems to be more affected animals in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties with low fawn-to-adult deer ratios in the spring.

The striking thing about the petroleum industry is U.S. firms still dominate the world petroleum industry. And the U.S. firms that dominate are the remnants of the old Standard trust,

The striking evolutionary conservation of ratchetting points suggests that recursive splicing provides specific advantages for large introns, ... One possibility is that recursive splicing prevents the generation of long RNA transcripts that could form structures that interfere with correct processing into mRNA. Another is that recursive splicing might help stimulate transcription through long introns by promoting interactions between the splicing and transcription machineries. We also know already that recursive splicing is used to control the removal of certain exons from mRNAs, generating structural and functional variation among the gene products.

The suspect appeared at the door of one of the bedrooms and pointed a pistol directly at Officer Potts. Officer Hollingsworth saw this from his position and fired four rounds striking the suspect,

The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint.

The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.

Perhaps the most striking finding is that no difference in sodium intake was observed between those who received advice... and those who did not.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

The most striking thing from the survey is how bullish everybody is.

The most striking thing about the comparison among the three wars is how much more quickly support has eroded in the case of Iraq.

striking that there are so many businesses that have stepped up to the plate and are apparently eager to enroll people in Medicare.

Striking that balance is the most important part of the job.

Striking out two hitters like that, and helping us win the game, brings a lot of confidence.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Striking out has not been that much of a problem. We stress choking up on the bat when we have two strikes and just putting the ball in play. But we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we let two fastballs go by for strikes and then we are in a hole. That is a problem we've had with some of our guys.

Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.

Spectators who witnessed that concert, ... still recount his fearless attitude, innate stage charisma and striking technique -- balancing on toes, slapping the floor with the sides of his shoes, releasing cascades of musical sounds while powering off the boards with both legs kicking.

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Another problem afflicting higher education is the brain drain of faculty to the more advanced parts of the world. The striking feature of this challenge is that because of poor conditions of service, faculty is not able to attract young lecturers.

As fraudsters sow their seeds of corruption in the entertainment industry, the SEC, FTC, and NASAA are striking back by filing dozens of fraud cases against individuals and firms that prey on unsuspecting investors,

The boys took it pretty hard. Like any event, ball striking is key, and we haven' t got our golf swings quite where we want them yet.

A vehicle with some subjects drove by and fired shots toward the business, striking the owner in the leg and striking a customer, a second victim, in the shoulder. This morning we discovered that the owner, who has been identified as Mildred Reid Francis, (who was) 41 years of age, has died at Jackson Memorial Hospital, therefore the homicide detectives are currently taking over the investigation.

As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,

That's what's plagued us. We constantly go on a run to pull within striking range and for some unknown reason we go through a series of making turnovers and allow the team to take off.

That's impressive. To win a game without striking out kids, that means you're fielding the ball. They hit the ball decent on us.

A late-model Chevrolet truck discharged a firearm into the truck, striking (Morales), forcing (Morales) to lose control of his vehicle and wreck.