Example sentences of "to go on strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 2 | If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful . |
| 3 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 4 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |
| 5 | The gondoliers threatened to go on strike and all the floodlights on the night of the show were mysteriously switched off because someone had n't had their palm greased . |
| 6 | As it happened , the morning that the drivers decided to go on strike , I was up early at Kyalami . |
| 7 | It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint . |
| 8 | My only weapon in my bid for autonomy was to go on strike . |
| 9 | We were in New York , and came round a corner to find fifteen Father Christmases trying to decide whether or not to go on strike . |
| 10 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 11 | At an age when I was having qualms over the philosophy of M. Bergson , he was speaking in a factory yard of the necessity to go on strike . |
| 12 | The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk . |
| 13 | FRENCH labour exchange employees were the latest to go on strike — in protest at mounting work caused by rising joblessness — as labour unrest proliferated yesterday . |
| 14 | Ticket clerks irritated by a new automated reservation system have threatened to go on strike today . |
| 15 | Mr Major replied : ‘ Workers who choose to go on strike have always faced the risk of being dismissed without the right to claim unfair dismissal . |
| 16 | to go on strike because of it . |
| 17 | It 's a crisis about to get worse , because the farmers of Yarislavl are set to go on strike , if their demands are n't met , then one of the largest agricultural centres in the country will cut supplies of milk , poultry and meat . |