Sentence examples for failed strike from inspiring English sources

The failed strike will weaken the position of the unions, a traditional foe of such changes.

After the failed strike, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said "they know that we broke their strike -- destroyed it, really".

Another told CNN, after a failed strike, "I would not be surprised if a hundred tribesmen joined Al Qaeda as a result of the latest drone mistake".

The Park Place Entertainment Corporation has agreed to reinstate all 82 Caesars Atlantic City slot attendants who were dismissed during a failed strike last year.

At a news conference here, Mr. Zwickel, 64, criticized Mr. Peters, saying he "at no point exhibited the slightest tendency to accept personal consequences" for the failed strike last month.

Following a failed strike aimed at uprooting him from power, Mr. Chávez last year slashed the value of the bolívar to close a growing fiscal deficit and put in place strict exchange controls to stanch capital flight.

Union delegates voted 391 to 187 to promote Mr. Peters, who has said that "moderate wage agreements don't make sense" and who took responsibility for failed strikes earlier this year in eastern Germany.

Their attitude that they can succeed in finding game-changing solutions where others have failed strikes some Democrats as the worst kind of arrogance.

The SEC's prosecution, which alleges that Goldman fiddled customers by selling them mortgage derivatives doomed to fail, strikes at the very core of the 141-year-old firm's cherished reputation for financial integrity.

"I think the President has been kind of unfairly blamed for his response to this largely on the matter of what posture he struck, or failed to strike," Hume said.

Alburquerque failed to strike out Cano.