Example sentences of "at [art] stroke [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a stroke the government removed about 70% of the local currency from the economy . |
| 2 | At a stroke the party managers and fixers have lost their assumption of a divine right to power . |
| 3 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 4 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 5 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 6 | They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization . |
| 7 | But whereas General Franco 's rapid and decisive action resolved at a stroke the problem of order and the underlying political question , the use of force to suppress anarchists and revolutionary communists in Barcelona only exacerbated the Republic 's political difficulties and thereby seriously undermined its capacity to offer united resistance to its attackers . |
| 8 | One was a 70-year-old Watcher who threatened to do us grievous bodily harm and then hand herself in thus doubling at a stroke the NW clear up rate . |
| 9 | But at a stroke the Chancellor has severely dented our efforts . ’ |
| 10 | At a stroke the gold reserves in Fort Knox would be worth more dollars , thus improving backing for the dollar ; gold reserves for other central banks would be worth more , encouraging them to accumulate further interest-earning dollar reserves ; gold production would be stimulated and private demand reduced ( as industry tried to economize and speculators took their profits ) , allowing countries to absorb additional gold into their reserves . |
| 11 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |