Have they morphed into a venomous black widow now prowling the Web, silently ready to strike consumers?

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It appears other U.S. lawmakers may now also be ready to strike a deal on the contentious matter.

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The gamblers and risk-takers turned south on the California Trail over the Sierra Nevada, ready to strike it big or not at all.

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Preemptively, the Union is ready to strike if it needs to.

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But the constitutional court is ready to strike these down.

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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.

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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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