Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net.

The strike did secure some concessions, but Mao and other student leaders felt that they were now under threat from the furious Zhang, and were sent as representatives to China's provincial centers ; thus, Mao once again traveled to Peking.

I couldn ’ t strike him even once .” I was amazed that there was someone that even Sodeyama Sensei couldn ’ t strike.

Although the debris did not strike the orbiter, the program was grounded once again for this reason.

The process is slow, so more efficient plating processes are used once the desired strike thickness is obtained.

Using both hands, it's possible to dampen and strike two notes at once.

Philip Murray, USWA founding president, once commented that Hall's leadership of the strike in Warren and Youngstown was a model of effective grassroots organizing.

Objects with diameters over strike the Earth approximately once every thousand years, producing explosions comparable to the one known to have detonated above Tunguska in 1908.

Comic Book Guy not only has a heart attack in Season 12, but encounters death three times ; once in a French missile strike on Springfield, in the Simpsons Comics mini series " Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book ", where he is killed in the explosion of Superguy's rocket, and also in " Treehouse of Horror XVI ", where Comic Book Guy is killed by Mr. Burns for refusing to run for five whole minutes.

Meanwhile, Firefly's personal assistant, Bob Roland ( Zeppo Marx ) suspects Trentino's questionable motives, and counsels Firefly to " get rid of that man at once " by saying " something to make him mad, and he'll strike you, and we'll force him to leave the country.

On the other hand, the events of January 1905 in Russia once more seemed to underscore the suitability of the general strike as a decisively revolutionary action.

An Ormet Corporation employee strike affected Woodsfield's economic base in 2004, but once the strike ended, things began to improve.

It was the Persian military's fear that once the Roman army had conquered the west, they would turn east and strike down Persia.

Don Bluth's company had been driven to bankruptcy twice: once, as Don Bluth Productions, after the disappointing box office take of The Secret of NIMH coincided with an animator's strike ; and again, as the Bluth Group, after the Video game crash of 1983 — when Cinematronics, in an attempt to cut its losses, charged fees and royalties of over $ 3 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) to Bluth's company while it was working on a sequel to the laserdisc-based animated arcade videogame Dragon's Lair.

Furthermore, Sura Al-Baqara 2: 190-193 of the Koran requires that in combat Muslims are only allowed to strike back in self-defence against those who strike against them, but, on the other hand, once the enemies cease to attack, Muslims are then commanded to stop attacking.

There was a less significant strike by firefighters in the Winter of Discontent ( late 1978 and early 1979 ), where once again the Green Goddesses were drafted in to cover ; it is largely forgotten by many as it occurred at a time when a significant percentage of public sector workers were on strike.

Most importantly, they argue this law prevents the more hesitant workers from making the decision to join the strike the day before, once they've been convinced to do so by their colleagues and more particularly the union militants, who maximize their efforts in building the strike ( by handing out leaflets, organising meetings, discussing the demands with their colleagues ) in the last few days preceding the strike.

Systematic defeat by the Maximals eventually left all his options exhausted, and he proceeded to strike at Optimus Prime, only to be once again thwarted by his enemies.

However, the growing trend ( or paradigm shift ) towards character-centered drama and naturalistic plots and settings has replaced the episodic action-adventure format that was once standard for television science fiction.

See, for example, the case of Meyer v. Mitnick, 625 N. W. 2d 136 ( Michigan, 2001 ), whose ruling found the following reasoning persuasive: " the so-called ' modern trend ' holds that because an engagement ring is an inherently conditional gift, once the engagement has been broken, the ring should be returned to the donor.

The growth in the male pantyhose market ( sometimes termed, " mantyhose ", a term coined by the media coverage of this emerging trend ), has been chronicled in a number of popular blogs that have arisen as men have become more open in their wearing of this once only feminine garment.

* The trend toward closet drama ( often highly politicized ), which distinguished the English Civil War and Interregnum periods, does not immediately end once the theatres re-open with the Restoration — as the publication of Hell's High Court of Justice ( below ) illustrates.

Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again.

Some reviewers note that the novel furthers the post-millennial trend in science fiction of illustrating society's inability to imagine a definitive future and the use of technologies once considered advanced or academic now commonplace within society and its vernacular.

Where it was once the case that pharmacists stayed within the dispensary compounding / dispensing medications, there has been an increasing trend towards the use of trained pharmacy technicians while the pharmacist spends more time communicating with patients.

The Assembly Rooms started the trend in 1981, taking over the empty Georgian building that had once hosted the International Festival Club, and the following year The Circuit was prominent ; it was in fact a " tented village ”, that was situated on a piece of empty ground, popularly known as “ The Hole in The Ground ”, once the site of a snooker club ( Pool's ), where the Saltire complex was subsequently built in the early 1990s.

Continuing education is the trend, once in one's life schooling has become lifelong learning.

Many of the lots once owned by the Dallas Land and Loan Company were subdivided by the Dallas and Oak Cliff Real Estate Company and sold to the middle and working classes, a trend which lasted well into the early 1900s.

There were once many more pubs in the town than there are now, and the trend of pub closure is still continuing.

He once expressed caution towards " an obvious trend toward laxity " in the morality of films, and was one of the few American bishops to oppose the liturgical revision of the Second Vatican Council, which he attended from 1962 to 1965.

Same goes to the single parent movement, by the growing trend of children raised by one parent, which once was viewed as an alternative lifestyle.

In the habitat part of the rooted plants, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, Metopidius indicus, and others were reported ; once abundant now show a declining trend.

There is lately a trend for such nurseries to send crypts as just a rootstock ( i. e. without the leaves to reduce shipping costs and because the leaves will be lost anyway once planted in an aquarium.

This was once quite controversial: From the beginning of the satellite record in late 1978 into 1998 it showed a net global cooling trend, although ground measurements and instruments carried aloft by balloons showed warming in many areas.

However the late ripening means that in some years the entire crop is lost and it only properly ripens once every four years, so it has fallen out of favour, particularly with the trend towards earlier-maturing wine.

Brisbane has been seen as a leader in this trend, and other cities and towns will review the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project once completed.

Loss and / or fusion of caudal vertebrae in pygostyle-like structures was a general trend in Cretaceous avian evolution, and a full pygostyle and associated structures may have evolved more than once to similar shapes.

This trend mirrors a national political realignment that has seen the once solidly Democratic South become increasingly dominated by Republicans.

On 4 July 1980, this trend was reversed when U. S. Fleet Activities Sasebo regained its name, and Seventh Fleet ships were once again forward-deployed to Sasebo.

You once had a series of gatekeepers in the adoption of a trend: the innovator, the early adopter, the late adopter, the early mainstream, the late mainstream, and finally the conservative.

Originally this was simply the name of a large housing development in the area, but a large section of what was once Old Toongabbie was officially renamed Winston Hills in the 1970s, a trend that has been echoed in many other areas of the western suburbs.