Sentence examples for fare struck from inspiring English sources

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Carmine's first location opened in 1990 on Broadway near 91st Street, and its medium-budget fare struck a responsive chord during a lingering recession.

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Such fare strikes the new program director at the Siena Center, Sister Honora Nolty, as "kind of fringy".

The fares strike against the worst performing train company, First Great Western, looked on the face of it like a bit of a damp squib.

FGW attracted unwanted headlines in January when passengers in the Bristol and Bath area staged a fare strike in protest at overcrowding caused by the operator mishandling the introduction of a new timetable and the transfer of a train depot.

In 2008, the company faced a fare strike by some passengers over claims of high prices, overcrowding and unreliable trains.

The fare strike didn't take place, but it's obvious what would've happened.

During the last round of industrial action on the Underground in 2014, there were some proposals for a "fare strike" to build public sympathy for the unions.

Last week's "fare strike" on the New York City subway won't be the last time Occupy turns its attention to mass transit.

The MTA, the NYPD and the FBI are all on the hunt for the masked bandits who chained open a few subway entrances last week and declared a fare strike -- but Hanley said they should be looking to Wall Street instead.

Adam Lisberg, a spokesman for the MTA, said the fare strike was "an offense against the system, and frankly it's an offense against everybody else who pays their fare". But Hanley suggested looking for the people behind it is a waste of time.

The MBTA there has proposed a number of deep service cuts which Oshinsky said would "pit communities against each other". But "as riders and workers together, there's real strength". Oshinsky said she had not heard of any actions planned like the "fare strike" in New York, when masked activists chained subway gates opened and offered free rides.

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