But when word and ritual come together in the best way, it can strike fire in human hearts.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
The most surprising swipe at the government during the fire strike has come from John Monks, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
But it was left to his strike partner to fire the important third goal, Drogba shooting across Carroll and into the corner of the net after being played through by Gudjohnsen.
Ipswich took the lead thanks to a route one ball from Alexander, neatly flicked on by Lee to Counago, whose return pass set up his strike partner to fire past David Marshall.
The fact is we planned very fully to deal with these contingencies which are here now, and we have a system which in a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, a fire strike, is as robust as it could be.
He denied having a strategy to force workers out on strike purely so he could fire them.
There were no injuries from the Israeli strike nor the Palestinian rocket fire, but Israeli defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Israel would not allow such firing to become routine.
Protesters have called for a statewide strike over the handling of the fire on Tuesday.
On the first day of the strike, some vehicles were set on fire in Noida in Uttar Pradesh state.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
The new state law, passed in 1995 over the objections of almost every Democratic state legislator, came with an 18-month no-strike clause and made it easier to fire bad or burned-out teachers.
Although no one was made redundant involuntarily, in 2006 the fire-brigade union called a strike.
ECONOMIST: A Liverpool fireman demonstrates how it can be done
Yoshito Okubo was guilty of a bad miss early on before Tamada showed his strike partner the way, sliding in to fire home a right-wing cross from Makoto Hasebe in the 21st minute.
But Bale won a free kick on the edge of the box and Ramsey stepped forward to fire in a curling, right-footed strike.
The strike comes after days of tension, which began with the fire-bomb attack on the mosque on Friday.
If Scotland's firefighters were to take strike action it is possible that military "Green Goddess" fire engines would be used.
Fire crews in Essex have begun a 24-hour strike as talks aimed at halting the action continued.
The fire is thought to have been started by a lightning strike.
"If President Obama wants to visit the region peacefully, he should exert pressure on Israel to release the prisoners -- especially the ones who are on hunger strike -- or else he will visit while Palestine is on fire, " Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe said.
"If President Obama wants to visit the region peacefully, he should exert pressure on Israel to release the prisoners -- especially the ones who are on hunger strike -- or else he will visit while Palestine is on fire, " Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe said.
It has no troops on the ground and is not exchanging fire with hostile forces (unless you count the odd drone strike).
The other Kim also let go of a third of his 17, 200 staff - and is looking to fire 280 more people, despite threats of a workers' strike.
More than 750 firefighters and support personnel were working in Oregon and Nevada to corral the 418, 235-acre Holloway Fire, the largest of the Western wildfires ignited by a lightning strike on August 5.
The results of this air strike underscore the difficult challenge Israel's army faces in responding to the rocket fire.
In recent days, the North has threatened a nuclear strike on the U.S. and said it was scuttling the cease-fire on the Korean Peninsula.
He, too, hoped to strike it rich, selling off a few items but losing 15, 000 in a fire.
The strike was caused by the decision of a black school board in Brownsville, Brooklyn to fire many of the Jewish teachers and administrators from the local schools and replace them with black separatist teachers and administrators.
Aleksandr Ryazantsev's stunning long-range strike jolted Barca, who equalised through Zlatan Ibrahimovic's powerful finish, only for Gokdeniz Karadeniz to fire the winner following a breakaway as Pep Guardiola's side slumped to their first defeat of the season.
South Korean defense officials say the North has moved missiles to the east coast, including a medium-range missile believed to be designed to strike U.S. territory, but there has been no indication of when they might test-fire the weapon.
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