Example sentences of "with [art] miners " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 2 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 3 | We sit and chat with the miners in their newly-finished bunkhouse , drinking coffee beneath a sign inscribed by , among others , our own National Union of Railwaymen and Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 4 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 5 | ‘ Our position as an extension of the working class is to ally ourselves with the miners and to fight the government 's relocation programme , ’ read a banner outside the university , which was on strike . |
| 6 | Fortunately it coincided with the miners ' strike of 1984 . |
| 7 | Which Minister is the pits with the miners whose livelihoods now hang in the balance ? |
| 8 | Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Straw 's achievement as British Rail general manager at Worksop was to defy industrial action by engine drivers in solidarity with the miners strike . |
| 11 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 12 | That day he had three crucial meetings , one with the miners in the morning , a second with the owners in the early evening , and a third with the TUC after dinner . |
| 13 | They were cowed and bitter , with the Miners ' Federation weakened for a decade . |
| 14 | Orwell broke with his class to express his solidarity with the miners in The Road to Wigan Pier , and he expressed his solidarity in terms of his own class position . |
| 15 | Within that culture the precise reason for the Nottinghamshire miners deciding not to strike remains a matter of contention for further study — were they simply self-interested and unprepared to show solidarity with the miners of other fields ? ; were they so concerned for solidarity within the union that they would not strike unless its rules ( Rule 43 in particular ) were upheld ? ; or what ? |
| 16 | If the general strike had lasted , we could have took over , but er Jimmy stepped in and er he was the er he was the er general secretary of the N U R , National Union of Railwaymen , and er he stepped in and persuaded the government to more or less step in and take over and arbitrate with the miners . |
| 17 | The Tories ' period of opposition was partly spent contemplating a future showdown with the miners . |
| 18 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 19 | However , MPs heard that Department of Employment officials got in touch with British Coal to discuss the legal implications of not consulting with the miners before making them redundant . |
| 20 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 21 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |