Sentence examples for flash strike from inspiring English sources

The flash strike against AbeBooks, which removed over 2.5 million books from the marketplace, is a rare concerted action by vendors against Amazon, which depends on third-party sellers for much of its merchandise and revenue.

1983 (England. Do we sense a pattern here?) One of the greatest World Cup innings, Kapil Dev's unbeaten 175 for India against Zimbabwe, is lost to posterity when the BBC go on a flash strike.

Their activism, part of a flash strike of some 200 workers from fast-food restaurants around New York City, caps a string of unorthodox actions sponsored by organized labor, including worker protests outside Walmart stores, which, like most fast-food chains, are opposed to being unionized, and union drives at carwashes in New York and Los Angeles.

Last year, two of the highest profile labor actions in the country – one-day "flash" strikes at fast food restaurants in New York City, and at Walmart stores nationwide – were coordinated by groups that are not traditional unions: New York Communities for Change and OUR Walmart (though both received union support).

When a lighting flash strikes the ground, he says, it usually travels horizontally in tendrils or fingers.

When a geomagnetic disturbance hits its peak, the Stargate activates simultaneously on the planet and on Earth, and a flash strikes Malikai, Colonel O'Neill Richard Dean Andersonn) and Teal'c (Christopher Judge) near an Ancient altar.

However, field observations in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore have shown that the points where lightning flashes strike buildings also depend on the height and geometry of the structure.

More than 20 million cloud-to-ground flashes strike the United States annually, and lightning is clearly among the country's most severe weather hazards.

Qatar Airways flies to Kathmandu from £400 return This group recce trip is scheduled purposefully for rainy season to offer best chance to witness Catatumbo lightning – a Venezuelan phenomenon where multiple flashes strike in dramatic succession in a small area over several hours.

A storm that swept through Southern California on Monday brought nearly 2 inches of rain to the San Bernardino mountains and more than 4,000 lightning flashes, striking at least one teen.

A storm that swept through Southern California on Monday brought nearly 2 inches of rain to the San Bernardino mountains and more than 4,000 lightning flashes, striking at least one teen.