Have they morphed into a venomous black widow now prowling the Web, silently ready to strike consumers?
It appears other U.S. lawmakers may now also be ready to strike a deal on the contentious matter.
That suggested at least five justices Justice Kennedy plus the court's four liberals might be ready to strike down the law.
Israel signalling that it is more than ready to strike out if what it sees as "red-lines" are crossed.
The gamblers and risk-takers turned south on the California Trail over the Sierra Nevada, ready to strike it big or not at all.
Preemptively, the Union is ready to strike if it needs to.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the international community last September that it needed to be ready to strike Iran's nuclear installations by next summer if diplomacy doesn't progress.
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They may thus be more ready to strike a grand bargain a deficit plan that both raises some new tax revenue and reduces the growth of entitlements, such as government-funded pensions.
Add that to its successful rocket launch in December and the threat of a North Korea ready to strike at the United States, which it sees as its arch-enemy, would appear to be more real than ever.
Mr Simpson quite likes to portray himself as a firebrand, ready to tear up many of the no-strike agreements successfully negotiated by Sir Ken during the 1990s in exchange for union recogniton.
Although the ground is not yet as ready as he would like it to be, this time he had better strike.
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