Sentence examples for a serious strike from inspiring English sources

Yet domestic stockpiling made sense against what then seemed a serious strike possibility.

During his term (1916 22) he and his Radical Party followers in Congress maintained Argentina's neutrality in World War I. Measures regulating labour conditions were also passed, but these were not strongly enforced, and in 1919 a serious strike, in part politically inspired, was violently broken by the government.

But a strong argument is being made by military leaders like the hawkish chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, that the Israeli effort to disrupt and destroy the infrastructure of terrorism is incomplete and hollow without a serious strike against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The largest container port in the world -- Shanghai -- saw a serious strike by Chinese truckers.

He has not faced any big demonstrations against his economic policy (gay marriage drew the biggest numbers on to the streets), nor any serious strikes.

On paper, Mates of State have a few serious strikes against them.

The attack on Friday was potentially the most serious strike on a major target involving foreigners in Baghdad since the Oct. 27 suicide bombing of the International Committee of the Red Cross, one of a series of suicide bombings that day across the city that killed more than 25 people.

A serious steel strike in January 1946 involving 800,000 workers the largest in the nation's history was followed by a coal strike in April and a rail strike in May.

The federal prosecutor, Eric Van Der Sypt, told reporters that Belgian police and special forces launched the operation on Thursday evening after receiving information that a cell was poised to launch a serious terror strike in the country.

This removes the most serious strike in the Paris region.

It prompted protests, and the first serious strike against the government, led by transport workers, on May 5th.