Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' strike " in BNC.
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| 1 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 2 | In the coal-miners ' strike of 1984–5 , It was clear that one of the social structures that reinforced the militancy of many strikers was the community within which each mine was located . |
| 3 | The 1979 gravediggers ' strike in Liverpool , which necessitated plans ( never executed ) for mass burials at sea , shamed us all but by then it was too late to correct a runaway madness . |
| 4 | On 19 January the lorry drivers ' strike ended with an almost total victory for the unions . |
| 5 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 6 | The reasons for the lorry drivers ' strike have already been given . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lorry drivers ' strike in England and Wales made official . |
| 9 | Tax inspectors ' strike may hold up Beaujolais |
| 10 | The Glasgow " rent strikes " of 1916 , the engineers ' strikes led by the Clyde Workers Committee and the political agitations of John Maclean marked a growing radicalism in Scotland which was largely outside established parties , although it was a major factor in the electoral sweep of Glasgow seats for Labour and the ILP in 1922 . |
| 11 | In her essay ‘ Implications of the Miners ' Strike ’ , she pointed out that : |
| 12 | The miners ' strike marks a set-back for those who argue that police and politics do n't mix … for the discussions generated will serve to accelerate the politicisation of the police … [ and ] has highlighted the presence of ACPO and the NRC [ the co-ordinating National Reporting Centre ] , as bodies , set up without the authority of Parliament , of apparently unquantified and unaccountable power . |
| 13 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 14 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 15 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 18 | Jimmy Knapp , left-wing leader of the National union of Railwaymen believes that his members had a ‘ genuine ’ interest in the miners ' strike because pit closures would mean fewer coal trains . |
| 19 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 20 | Some bishops , notably Jenkins of Durham , Sheppard of Liverpool , and Hapgood of York , have spoken out about deprivation in the inner cities , the miners ' strike , and the need for government to show a greater compassion for , and understanding of , the poor . |
| 21 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 22 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 23 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 24 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 25 | Let me put his mind at rest : any notion that the police were impartial disappeared with their behaviour in the miners ' strike . |
| 26 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 27 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 28 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 29 | What is also clear is that the miners ' strike left deep ideological scars . |
| 30 | When a handful of persistent pickets parked a caravan at the Hinkley entrance during the long drawn out miners ' strike , they got precious little support . |