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  • Florida Representative Corrine Brown (D. Fla.) had her remarks striken from the record during a debate on whether federal officials should be forbidden from inviting international observers for the 2004 Presidential election.

    Balkinization 2004

  • Really, comments should be striken from the blog format entirely, and if that’s influencing your decision at all, you should think again.

    Enough 2007

  • Authorities have said they think Turton was striken by a medical problem or lost consciousness for some other reason as she backed up the inclined driveway.

    Crime Scene: Lobbyist intoxicated at time of death, autopsy indicates Paul Duggan 2011

  • Solis denied CAIR's request that its name be publicly striken from the list.

    The King hearings: Is CAIR a 'terrorist organization'? 2011

  • Authorities have said they think Turton was striken by a medical problem or lost consciousness for some other reason as she backed up the inclined driveway.

    Lobbyist drunk at time of death: Autopsy Paul Duggan 2011

  • Authorities have said they think Turton was striken by a medical problem or lost consciousness for some other reason as she backed up the inclined driveway.

    Lobbyist Ashley Turton's death ruled accidental Paul Duggan 2011

  • But when poverty-striken Socrates (he taught in the streets for free) strode through the city's central marketplace, he would harrumph provocatively, "How many things I don't need!"

    Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010

  • Star-striken viewers wishing to emulate the idolisedstars reach out for a cigarette in the quest to be cool … ….

    GYM 2009 | Archive | February 2009

  • I wonder if the amount of dust kicked up from drought-striken Australia as affected the winter and summer in the northern hemisphere - a little like a volcanic winter.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • Authorities have said they think Turton was striken by a medical problem or lost consciousness for some other reason as she backed up the inclined driveway.

    Lobbyist Ashley Turton's death ruled accidental Paul Duggan 2011

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