Example sentences of "strike at [art] very [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To the Israelis , however , and to their supporters in the Jewish diaspora , the same question struck at the very morality of Zionism . |
2 | The relationship struck at the very roots of their human dignity . |
3 | These innovations , which were much more obvious and immediate than any doctrinal changes , struck at the very root of Reformed religious beliefs , and in the popular imagination closely equated Arminianism with popery . |
4 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
5 | The question which feminists are raising then strikes at the very core of Christology . |
6 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
7 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
8 | Colleagues , union de-recognition strikes at the very heart of the trade union movement , and in preparing to face this challenge , the G M B must be at the forefront of the fight . |
9 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
10 | It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information . |
11 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
12 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
13 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
14 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |