Sentence examples for a strike took from inspiring English sources

Sérgio Simões, a state defense official, told reporters here that the federal authorities had agreed to make 14,000 soldiers and national police officers available to maintain order in the state of Rio de Janeiro in case a strike took place.

The exclusion criteria of the recorded data are: days on which a strike took place and special weather conditions (gusty winds, stormy rainfall, atmospheric turbulence, etc).

Outside Pittsburgh, they are proclaiming a strike, taking to Twitter and Facebook to spread the word.

It is paltry consolation that such a strike, taking out a city or two, would not cause the devastation of a nuclear war between superpowers.

"When a strike takes place they have no united leadership, so you're dealing with 60 people tugging at your jacket asking for this and that.

While Denis Bergkamp's equaliser was from a similar distance it was not as clean a strike, taking a deflection en route.

Because the two sides remain far apart on most issues, Hollywood has been on edge about a strike, taking care, for instance, to wrap production on films so costly location shoots are not drawn out.

This may account for a pattern in many of the drone strikes: a drone hovers over an area for weeks on end before a strike takes place, presumably waiting until identities are confirmed and the targets can be struck without anyone else present.

CPS has budgeted about $25 million to spend on its contingency plan should a strike take place, according to the Tribune.

More than a dozen drone strikes took place in January.

Late in October an outbreak of strikes took place in both foreign and locally owned businesses, including the state-owned power utility, Zesco, and the Chinese-owned Chambishi copper mine.