Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] ' strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 2 | Strikes included one at Ford ( which cost 117,000 vehicles ) , the bakery workers ' strike ( which involved violent picketing ) , strikes at British Leyland , Vauxhall , Rolls Royce , and the southern region of British Rail . |
| 3 | His first fast unto death occurred in 1918 , in support of the Ahmedabad textile workers ' strike , and was employed against the mill-owning family , who were devoted to him . |
| 4 | Tax inspectors ' strike may hold up Beaujolais |
| 5 | The other explanation put forward for Allende 's defeat was the role of the ‘ privileged ’ , the ‘ bosses ’ and the ruling elite — the transport workers ' strikes which inflicted serious damage on the economy and are referred to as the ‘ bosses ’ strikes ' . |
| 6 | On 19 January the lorry drivers ' strike ended with an almost total victory for the unions . |
| 7 | The reasons for the lorry drivers ' strike have already been given . |
| 8 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 9 | Lorry drivers ' strike in England and Wales made official . |
| 10 | Metal workers ' strike — Ending of car import quotas |
| 11 | Ten years after the Jiu Valley miners ' strike , a protest demonstration erupted in Braşov on 15 November 1987 , the day of local elections . |
| 12 | Bananas were Honduras 's principal export , and the banana workers ' strike was expected to cost US$60,000,000 in lost production . |
| 13 | Despite government denials , the use of troops to end forcibly a 42-day banana workers ' strike was taken as evidence of its strong anti-labour stance [ see p. 37649 ] . |
| 14 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 15 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 16 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 17 | The image of the miners as gladiators for women during the Grunwick strike by Asian women in London in the late seventies and the hospital workers ' strikes during the early eighties veiled their reservations about the rights of women in general , which have been entrenched in the culture of their community . |
| 18 | The resumption followed an oil workers ' strike and the planned transfer of the trans-Andean oil pipeline from the United States company Texaco to the state-owned PETROECUADOR [ see pp. 36344 ; 37068 ] . |
| 19 | THE NEWS BOYS ( Cert PG ; General ) is such a dreadfully dated-looking , and dreary musical set against the famous New York City newsboys ' strike of 1899 , I just ca n't imagine who its going to appeal to . |
| 20 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 21 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |