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Civil servants announced their campaign against an imposed pay deal with unofficial walkouts and will be balloting for strikes next month.
Relations with management are so bad that as well as the official strikes, 25 porters walked out unofficially recently.
It's still three strikes you're out and four balls for a walk but so much of the fun is gone.
This year the lament and longing for the South, now standing so battered by Hurricane Katrina, strikes me with unusual poignancy.
For an instant, his painted, red-nailed forefinger catches the light as it strikes middle C on his old, battered harmonium.
Ragged sheets of rain were visible in the distance, and pale lightning strikes forked against the clouds.
Frankly, though, this strikes me as some sort of bizarre battered spouse response.
In the last year, three general strikes called to protest against the president, protests in the streets, people killed, and one attempted coup.
It strikes me as another telltale sign of the insidious colonization of our personal and social lives by the ethic of the algorithm.
Almost 60 percent of California's three strikes cases involve nonviolent offenses in which the courts hand down sentences of 25 years to life.
Most states with three strikes legislation confine it to serious violent crime.
I see amending the three strikes law as a step towards healing and reconciling families and communities.
But if there's a prisoner-rights issue that screams for redress, it's three strikes.
It's hard to say whether it's a good or bad thing that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the three strikes law.
The three strikes law made lying acceptable in some way and perhaps required her lie.
California has the toughest and most vigorously enforced three strikes law in the nation.
I also oppose the three strikes law and all other rigid sentencing regimes.
California, which has the three strikes system, now spends more on its prison system than on education, say civil rights groups.
During disputes, he and other government ministers have churned out statements that all but equate strikes with sedition.
Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices.
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To quell resistance, air strikes and artillery barrages were called in, largely demolishing the town.
A series of disruptive wildcat strikes created deep divisions between different groups of workers in the company.
As always, what strikes one about French farce is its mix of mathematical precision and bizarre detail.
Disaster strikes when he thins his pitch from the rough beside the 10th green all the way across the putting surface.
In the presence of the household he strikes the forehead of the dead pope three times with a silver mallet, calling him by his baptismal name.
The frequent hike in prices of petroleum products leads to strikes and bandhs, paralysing normal life and the general economy.
And I have not even counted days lost due to strikes, hartals, bandhs, lockouts and the like.
A father who switched on the early morning news to keep tabs on lightning strikes and bandhs and heated the water for my early morning bath.
On a more domestic note, the old refrain, marry in haste, repent at leisure strikes a chord.
The train drivers' union Aslef is also threatening to ballot for strikes in a separate dispute over pay.
Ambulance workers in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to ballot for strikes over the implementation of a new pay deal.
Loosening up, she moves on to the pool, coasting like a ball bearing around its high rims, grabbing a little air when the fancy strikes her.
Compared to the early struggles, the strikes of the 1890s manifested a significantly higher level of consciousness among the workers.
It strikes me as a false premise to frame a law and order issue using moral terms regardless if they are in scare quotes or not.
Industrialists struggling against labor unions often exploited the new immigrants, making them scabs during worker strikes.
At this stage he cannot say if he will produce any more music, but if inspiration strikes, who knows.
The union announced that its 270,000 members had backed strikes by 67 per cent which could mean stoppages at courts across the district.
This story out of USA Today makes false the axiom that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep.
As if spurred on by this, Peebles upped the ante, taking two consecutive strikes against the head.
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In May 1943 four strikes of Soviet aviation at the enemy airfields at the Kursk salient destroyed 500 aircraft.
Land-component forces chosen for lethal strikes are often highly tailorable Marine expeditionary units.
It had been attrited to such a point by air strikes that it was no longer a viable fighting unit.
As soon as engineers repair the speed traps, the mystery attacker strikes again.
Drawing on their activist roots, the refugees launched demonstrations and strikes, which the Marines met with attack dogs, batons and tanks.
What immediately strikes you about the game is the vast amount of information and control available at your fingertips.
But he blamed such strikes on terrorists and loyalists from the defunct regime.
Among the new weapons under consideration are low-level radiation weapons specifically designed for pre-emptive strikes.
Some explanations for extinctions and evolution include strikes by asteroids or comets.
Justin strikes poses in silhouette behind the curtain, ending with a lovably cheesy two-thumbs-up gesture.
His anti-corruption crusading, run-ins with management and police during strikes, and political ties made him a ripe target.
Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers.
The strikes continue today and bosses are warning claimants and job seekers to expect long queues.
I may be a lone voice here, but it strikes me that the more people who come to live in the area, the more we will witness commuting to London.
Between 1984 and 86, there was a total of 962 disputes, including strikes, stoppages or lockouts under the Labour government.
Alberta's Public Service Employee Relations Act prohibits strikes and lockouts of workers in public services, including nurses.
Attacks are defended with blocks, various kicks, punches and strikes, throws, and wrist and arm locks.
The Attorney-General's contention, if correct, strikes at the root of this basic principle.
The literal-minded insistence that all government rhetoric be entirely scrupulous strikes me, in view of the above, as weird.
The court was given extensive powers to prevent strikes, arbitrate and enforce settlement of industrial disputes.
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It strikes the synovium, the thin layer of tissue lining the area of a joint where two bones meet.
Predominantly her aircraft were used on strikes against enemy lines of communications, troop concentrations and industrial infrastructure.
If Glasgow's research shows that a right-on, edgy image strikes a chord not only with visitors but also its citizens, then it could work.
There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did.
Shot in a straightforward style, the film strikes an unusual balance between seriousness and lightness.
Milano strikes a balance between more serious scientific research and light-hearted self-examination.
Singleton strikes the difficult balance between recapitulating stereotypes and ridiculing them in broad burlesque.
There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation.
It reflects a wider debate, fanned by bitterly hostile coverage of the tube strikes in much of the media.
I then pulled out the pocket checklist for bird strikes, and my instructor called for a climb to 5,000 feet.
He said recent air strikes had focused on air defence command and control centres, anti-aircraft guns and missile sites.
These disputes of right involve matters relating to retrenchment, discrimination, and unlawful strikes.
I guess it's something about the combination of low taxes and legal drugs that strikes their fancy.
He also pointed out the likelihood of potential retaliation by terrorist groups in the face of US air strikes in Afghanistan.
There were strikes and chaos and soon there was a civil war, and the surviving three thousand members begged the government to retake control.
The air strikes caused a profound split inside leftist groups that could not decide which side they should support.
Negative charge is generally carried to the surface by leakage currents and lightning strikes beneath clouds.
When light energy strikes a shiny surface, the energy is reflected at a direct angle.
This strikes me as a bit convoluted but he is lawyering and I do not know anything about this stuff.
But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains.
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The plainclothes policewoman strikes up a conversation with a group of women suspects in the estate's launderette but does not say who she is.
They were dreary, low-paid and repetitive and gave rise to strikes for a good reason.
The RMT has already had six days of strikes, the most recent of them last Friday and Saturday.
First of all what strikes a nature lover is that it is a green jungle island amidst an ocean of concrete jungle.
The Irish Land League of 1879 renewed the campaign, organizing rent strikes and boycotts and resisting evictions.
It strikes me that this version of the bicycle could be adapted to help people with ambulatory difficulties.
Then it strikes me that perhaps, like an ambiguous picture, both can exist simultaneously and have their own truth.
About success and failure, he remarks that he enjoys success and doesn't bother much when failure strikes.
Long-time musical associate and labelmate to Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss strikes out on his own and brings some heavyweights with him.
Our current regimented method of marching kids through a series of fixed time length classes strikes me as a hold-over from the factory era.
In a nation of multitasking workaholics, insomnia strikes 127 million adults.
For some reason, this strikes me as the reductio ad absurdum of the whole project.
The taste of it on my tongue strikes a chord deep within me, the way that the smell of woodsmoke or Grandma's perfume does for some.
I have written this article with a view to hopefully helping other people cope with Mud Fever when it strikes.
A Pentagon spokesman said a coalition air reconnaissance patrol came under fire and called in air strikes.
It's a warm and funny film which strikes exactly the right balance, neither patronising its subjects, nor treating them with kid gloves.
The firefighters' strikes planned for this week were dramatically suspended last night so that fresh talks can be held over pay.
There has been an enormous rise in workers' strikes, peasant rebellions and urban riots.
This has seen members strike for two days in both February and April, and take part in a number of unofficial wildcat strikes.
And at the time of writing we are seeing the first unofficial wildcat strikes in the civil service for 16 years!
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The 12-month dispute saw extensive industrial action, including wildcat strikes by teachers and walkouts by students.
That sort of Carnival strikes me as innocent and wholesome compared to what's going on in Germany.
A ray of hope appears in the form of Mary Burke, the daughter of a heart attack victim who strikes a chord with the troubled Pierce.
That strikes a raw nerve with the chief executive at a time when he is hyper-sensitive to criticism.
He lashes Tom across the face with a cowhide and strikes him several times, then asks Tom again if he will do it.
The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion.
In addition, they have potent raptorial appendages, with which they produce extremely fast and powerful strikes.
It is also suffering from rampant inflation, resulting in strikes, protests and the collapse of business investments.
He is admired by people with regard to his sporting career, but he also strikes me as a true gentleman!
The Triple Alliance of transport workers, miners, and railwaymen was in existence by 1914 and had a strategy of sympathy strikes in place.
The play strikes me as an attempt to recreate a winning formula, adhering rather too closely to the mould of its last show, Hatched.
The image of the gun-toting red-ragger springs to mind when people remember the shearers' strikes.
Economic and agency theory also predict that unions will encourage strikes despite the relatively well-off positions of their members.
Anyway, we don't need a strong army, we just need a few destructive strikes before the Jovians are prepared.
The main objective of air defense is to prevent casualties and losses among friendly forces from disabling air strikes.
Now, it strikes me that a jobbing wedding-reception caricaturist requires two major attributes in order to achieve success.
No longer do you need an array of tools such as a drill, a mortising jig for hinges, strikes, and bolt plate.
The main thing that strikes me is the perfect balance, or relief as Stokowski called it, between the orchestra and piano.
While I enjoyed the news-less interlude, too many strikes will weary public patience and risk handing viewers and listeners to the opposition.
For quick strikes, you may want to attach an energy pack to continually power your weapons and jetpack.
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The liquid jet as it strikes the solid surface can cause localized erosion and surface pitting.
The first thing that strikes you is the contrast between the quiet and loud noises.
The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home.
In the meantime, there were repeated air strikes on the city from US warplanes and helicopter gunships.
The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes.
We had said war clouds were hovering, but sometimes lightning strikes even if the weather is clear.
Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse.
It encountered losses from industrial action, strikes and absorbed a lot of resources.
He sits again, pulls a book of matches out of his pocket, strikes one and holds it out toward me.
We need to seriously discuss college occupations, mass protests, and walkouts and strikes to stop the war machine.
Back then, the lower class, rather than sink meekly into its immiseration, periodically erupted in violent strikes and riots.
Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes.
The Supreme Court will rule on the three strikes law this term.
The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes ... is much greater than the average American appreciates.
Paul Bowles put it that way in Let It Come Down, a title taken from a Shakespearean assassin just before he strikes.
And late Friday night there were more strikes on outlying areas of the besieged city now mostly empty of civilians.
After a string of consecutive strikes, a bowler has a higher percentage of scoring subsequent strikes, for instance.
Republican senators who were briefed on the crisis in Iraq Thursday also were reluctant to support U.S. air strikes in Iraq.
The question of whether English law strikes the correct balance between concerns of free speech and the protection of reputations may now be considered.
On one night earlier this month, the coalition launched 30 strikes on the town.
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Jack shall not be liable for interruptions caused by strikes, riots, floods, acts of God, loss of communication, or by any event beyond his control.
The union, which is seeking guarantees on job security and above inflation pay rises, has threatened a series of warning strikes if no deal is done on Thursday.
This could be achieved by threatening from several directions and launching high-speed, rapier-like strikes at operational headquarters and communications centres.
Mirrors, spherical or otherwise, operate on the principle that the angle of reflection of a ray of light equals the angle at which it strikes the mirror's surface.
He also warned that cruise missile strikes on Hezbollah forces in Syria would invite a response.
For military aircraft, windshields need further strengthening modifications, and some of the older aircraft are probably still vulnerable during bird strikes.
There can be hundreds of sorties on a daily basis to deliver massed strikes with precision air-to-surface missiles without flying above enemy territory.
For a start, it is set in Classical Roman times, in the reign of the Emperor Titus, and strikes me as being much heavier on recitative than Mozart's more famous works.
The reason animators use familiar voices is that immediate connection the audience makes with a character whose speech strikes a recollective chord.
Yet increasingly we are finding out that the state of our mind, emotions, and spirit have a significant impact on both our health and our recovery when illness strikes.
The company is relying on the various trade unions and works councils to suppress opposition to the job cuts, which sparked protests in Germany and strikes in France in April.
In retirement I look forward to hedonistic self-indulgence in the form of reading whatever strikes my fancy, landscape gardening, golf, travel, research, and writing.
And the thing that strikes me is how amateurish the whole thing seems.
It strikes me as a good game for LARPing, which I don't usually enjoy.
This strikes me as a pretty lax approach to national security.
The cheaper option if illness, accident or redundancy strikes, is to get in touch with your bank or other lender and arrange to reschedule your loan repayments.
Really, sortition strikes at the tension at the heart of elective representative democracy.
He strikes out the lead-off man, then walks the next three batters.
But as stimulus goes, the I-stimulus strikes me as a pretty narcissistic and ephemeral one.
There were significant anti-government strikes and protests last year.
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A massive, official protest in June was followed by a wave of strikes and protests by workers, students, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist protesters.
So to attack us for re-telling, for the first time anywhere in the world, James Leo Herlihy's truly great and bizarre love story strikes me as a bit rich.
Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal.
It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
For the sake of a few pounds this man has seriously injured an old woman and we are appealing for help in tracking him down before he strikes again.
Last night detectives, deeply concerned at the level of violence used in each attack, issued an urgent appeal for help in catching the man before he strikes again.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
When the mood strikes me, I can eat an embarrassingly large number of dillpickles or rollmops, even a bag of pretzels in a sitting, or more olives than I should.
Connective aesthetics strikes at the root of this alienation by dissolving the mechanical division between self and the world that has prevailed during the modern epoch.
I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization.
Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.
Cesium and rubidium lose their valence electrons especially easily when light strikes their polished surfaces and are photosensitive over the full visible spectrum.
Whenever anyone says he's aristocratic he's always quick to repeat it in his diaries, which strikes me as an incredibly middle-class aspirational trait.
Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam.
The ludicrousness of the whole situation and the fact that everything is completely out of control suddenly strikes me and I start to laugh hysterically.
Granted they both worked in a steam laundry in West Texas in the summer but the fact that they kept our house at a chilly 65 degrees now strikes me as a trifle extreme.
Shortened in medical parlance to h. flu, it bears no relation to the viral infection influenza that strikes every winter.
He strikes the ball around the table with great authority and confidence.
If the mood strikes you, you are welcome to pick up a copy of our siddur and pray with us.
The McCullen decision strikes down the Massachusetts law because it includes public streets and sidewalks.
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No, he kept saying, he did not agree to restore the U.N. sign-off for air strikes.
Like its strange predecessor, the first kiss scene, this simulation nightmare strikes a false note.
The provocation is likely to end any hesitation in Britain over launching strikes against ISIS in Iraq.
This frustration and anger boiled over that year, one famous for strikes.
And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.
Granderson said Bush conducted air strikes against Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia.
One of the arguments for intervention arising from the Syria strikes relies on a bit of sophistry.
One of them strikes up a relationship with the bank teller who opens their joint account, while the other two eventually tussle over loneliness and personal responsibility.
In a shared pool, butterfly strikes me as plain bad manners.
What people are really afraid of is something that has its own vocabulary and idiom because it strikes them dumb.
It has steadfastly refused to release its own estimates of non-combatant deaths in drone strikes, figures that it says classified.
On several occasions, Pakistani officials tipped off Maulvi Nazir and his men about impending drone strikes.
About 300 school caretakers and cleaners employed by Jarvis in Huddersfield and Dewsbury, west Yorkshire, are set to ballot for strikes over pay and conditions.
He did not indicate whether administration officials said if any decision on strikes had been made.
In a series of strikes this week, here and in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia, several people were killed.
But what strikes me as being more important right now even than our independence is our interdependence.
But in July he joined the army backed government as the interim labor minister and has defended the breaking of the Suez strikes.
The administration has not explained how the strikes accord with international law.
The three strikes law is supposed to apply exclusively to violent criminals, and if it must stay on the books, it should still only apply to them.
But the three strikes law is anything but narrowly tailored.
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The current three strikes law has also hung in there as long as it has because there has been no detectable swing in public sentiment toward changing the law.
California already locks up more three strikes offenders than the other states that have similar repeat offender laws on their books put together.
It is significant that the expression of public disapproval embodied in the Western Australian three strikes law is directed in practice so narrowly at youth offenders.
That makes him eligible for life in prison under California's three strikes law and the prosecutor in the case is asking the judge to impose that life sentence.
The three strikes law should only apply exclusively to violent criminals.
In each inning both teams bat, until three of the batters are declared out by either three strikes delivered by the pitcher, or a catch by a fielder.
Between 1936 and 1938, a series of labour disputes, strikes, and worker unrest spread throughout the French automobile industry.
Several unions launched strikes in response, but these actions eventually collapsed.
Their protests culminated in hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981, aimed at the restoration of political status, as well as other concessions.
Other ISIS positions were targeted by army air strikes in Tabaret al-Sakhaneh village along Khanaser-Atherya axis.
For those not comfortable with sheet music, a system of tablature indicating button strikes and bellows direction provides an alternative.
Europe's economies were recovering slowly, as unemployment and food shortages led to strikes and unrest in several nations.
There were indications of some micrometeoroid orbital debris strikes on the sides of Orion, which was anticipated.
The General Staff blocked the entry of Douhet's theory into doctrine, fearing revenge strikes against German civilians and cities.
The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 banned sympathy strikes and mass picketing.
The strikes had begun spreading in Scotland and West Yorkshire from the 13th.
The depression of 1842 led to a wave of strikes, as workers responded to the wage cuts imposed by employers.
They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.
She sits up tall and strikes up her one-man band of sing-song sound.
The region has seen numerous general strikes, some with social aims, some with political aims.
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More strikes occurred in 1932 and 1936, with a strike in 1950 on the question of the return of Leopold III to the Belgian throne.
This region was emblematic of the whole Sillon industriel in Wallonia and of the Belgian general strikes which often broke out in the Borinage.
This general strike was one of the first general strikes in an industrial country.
Long strikes were unsustainable as the miners had no organisation or finances to back them up.
The Danish section started organising strikes and demonstrations for higher wages and social reforms.
Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
The assessment of the strikes comes in real-time video from the aircraft.
But when I get up at the plate, he's throwing BBs at me. He strikes me out twice.
Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence.
Egypt is exploding with protests, sit-ins and strikes these days.
The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy.
No wonder the general public are angry when they learn they are actually bankrolling union officials orchestrating these strikes.
This is a funny law, whereby the protection of the revolution's achievements is done through abolishment of strikes, demonstrations and protests.
He also dismissed suggestions BA was building a war chest in case of summer strikes.
Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase.
And when trespassed against, he bides his time and strikes back by proxy.
Comically, the boy strikes a pose of romantic Weltschmerz, insisting he is deeply unhappy and shall never marry.
Desertion rates within the German army began to increase, and civilian strikes drastically reduced war production.
Sunday's airdrops followed weeks of US and coalition air strikes in and near Kobani, along the Syrian-Turkish border.
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He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much!
The commanders selected a course to impede the simulated WMD strikes on the Russian ships, the ministry said.
Unison was also planning four weeks of work to rule action between the two strikes.
The disruption from the work to rule in the CRB could be made worse if members back a programme of national pay strikes later this week.
Alonely DJ strikes up along-distance friendship with someone claiming to be an abused teenager with Aids.
Three books old, the first thing that strikes you about Amitabha Bagchi is the sheer familiarity you feel with his fiction.
Between 1892 and 1961, there were 20 major strikes, including 7 general strikes.
During the late 19th century, general strikes became an established aspect of the political process.
These unions therefore advocate a permanent solution to the circumstances of strikes, injunctions, and crossing other workers' picket lines.
In Italy, general strikes had been both socially effective and politically unproductive.
In Europe, general strikes were very common in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
General strikes are characterised by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities.
Historically, some employers have attempted to break union strikes by force.
The Railway Labor Act bans strikes by United States airline and railroad employees except in narrowly defined circumstances.
Since the government in such systems claims to represent the working class, it has been argued that unions and strikes were not necessary.
In addition certain parts of the economy can be proclaimed 'essential services' in which case all strikes are illegal.
Over the past decade, Western air strikes have too often ended up killing civilians and radicalising people further.
Like student strikes, a hunger strike aims to worsen the public image of the target.
Disaster strikes during the first teleportation and Victor is lost, presumed dead.
Sympathy strikes may be undertaken by a union as an organization or by individual union members choosing not to cross a picket line.
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Williams struck again with an angled drive, but Le Fondre hit his stride with two carbon-copy strikes into the corner.
This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!
Strikes without formal union authorization are also known as wildcat strikes.
Most strikes are undertaken by labor unions during collective bargaining as a last resort.
Nevertheless, strikes remained very common, and coal miners took the lead in political organization.
Ahead of his statement the PKK issued a condemnation of the strikes.
By 17 June, strikes were recorded in 317 locations involving approximately 400,000 workers.
Every three or four years something strikes it ms funny and it chuckles arhythmically in my chest.
When a dart strikes the board, the section makes contact with a metal plate, telling the computer where the player has thrown.
Three strikes laws in certain states impose harsh penalties on repeat offenders.
First, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, federal courts used injunctions to break strikes by unions.
The heralds eventually acknowledge that he is Sir Gareth right as he strikes down Sir Gawain, his brother.
In 1972, general strikes in Vigo and Ferrol cost the lives of Amador Rey and Daniel Niebla.
Chuggers or other topwater lures worked through the chum slick may attract strikes that lead you to re-think everything you know about grouper.
The tensions of the massive strikes and protests led to the Shakee Massacre.
Later in 1971, the MMM, backed by unions, called a series of strikes in the port which caused a state of emergency in the country.
The assaults against the several islands were supported by naval bombardments and air strikes.
The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour.
When MS fatigue strikes, exercise, sleep, and prescription medication aren't the only rejuvenators.
He strikes me as more of a go hard or go home athlete, an impression reinforced by reports of aggressive and competitive behaviour.
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The Awami League waged a series of strikes against the government after an assassination attempt on former premier Sheikh Hasina.
And polentalike tamales can be grilled, along with the sardines, whenever hunger strikes.
Let's start with that obsession, which strikes me as the strongest theme of what is, by definition, a themeless show.
Dissatisfied with the economic conditions, as well as the amounts of crime and corruption in Ukraine, Ukrainians protested and organized strikes.
Some are concerned that the current situation is inhumane, with upwards of 50 scars and disfigurements from vessel strikes on a single manatee.
Taken as a whole, however, the leisureliness of The Snake-Haired Muse strikes me as excessive.
At position 2 the ball strikes the rail, and at position 3 the ball returns to the tosser.
He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters.
He would notice that talking of natural controls strikes some people as solecistic, but he thought it was they who were using inapt metaphors.
It included terrorism, worker strikes, peasant unrests, and military mutinies.
And when the bell strikes midnight, Columba goes to the church and kneels beside the altar.
Play fighting involves rats going for each other's necks, while serious fighting involves strikes at the others' back ends.
It also explains why Beck's latest LP strikes me as such a standout.
It lost most of its aircraft, and command and control capability, to precise Coalition strikes and Iraqi troop desertion to Iran.
For mainland areas, storm surge is more of a threat when the storm strikes land from seaward, rather than approaching from landward.
The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is particularly affected by vessel strikes.
Vessel strikes cause death for a number of marine mammals, especially whales.
The average lightning strike peaks at 1 terawatt, but these strikes only last for 30 microseconds.
The air strikes have paralyzed the city's transportation system.
The flying knee is one of the most powerful strikes that one human being can use on another, short of employing a weapon.

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