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When the band is constructing their first windshield, she pushes a fervent discussion about labor law and commences a strike.

Accustomed as they are to ever-bigger bargains, and given how many cars, computers, sweaters and electronics gear they have bought in recent years, consumers may well commence a buying strike.

His arrest on Tuesday, made while he was en route to a park in New Delhi where he intended to commence a hunger strike as part of his anticorruption campaign, drove thousands of people onto city streets across India.

On the sixth day, the group decided to commence a hunger strike even as one woman was taken to the hospital for symptoms of hypothermia.

Union negotiations backed by the threat of strikes usually do have a list of demands which, if satisfied, will avert the strike, and if not, will commence or prolong a strike.

Starting at the end of October, he and his brother commenced a hunger strike that, despite a few interruptions, goes on.

What prompted her tears was the news that Kiarostami's countryman, friend and fellow filmmaker, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was meant to be a judge at Cannes, had commenced a hunger strike in Evin prison in Tehran.

Just days ago, a Tamil political prisoner being held in Jaffna Prison commenced a hunger strike.

One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot – the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position.

It was a strike.

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