Sentence examples for because of a lockout from inspiring English sources

(The N.B.A. had a 66-game season, rather than an 82-game season, because of a lockout).

If Rubio waited until 2012 or was forced to wait because of a lockout, he could earn considerably more.

"We should not let a disruption of next season happen because of a lockout, a strike, whatever," Rooney said.

And with last season wiped out because of a lockout by the National Hockey League owners, the Islanders' return came not a moment too soon.

And with the N.H.L. shut down because of a lockout, the Trashers have been drawing fans starved for hockey, including, according to the team, several people who hold season tickets for the New York Rangers.

The Giants are an improbable champion in an improbable season, one that nearly did not begin because of a lockout, and ended with their becoming the first 9-7 team in N.F.L. history to lift the Lombardi Trophy.

Three floors up from where Guetschow paid for his tickets, inside the Packers administrative offices, Mark Murphy, the team's president and chief executive, said many planned events had been postponed because of the lockout.

At least 10 top prospects — including several likely lottery picks — stayed out of the draft, largely because of the threat of a lockout.

After losing the entire 2004-05 season because of a labor lockout, the National Hockey League officially re-opened with the ratification by team owners of a new six-year collective bargaining agreement with the N.H.L. Players Association.

The agent Ralph Cindrich (@RalphCindrich), an active Twitter user, says it could help the union hold players together in the event of a lockout because displays of unity on Twitter will create public pressure on players who might otherwise be critical of union leadership.

The threat of a lockout loomed.