Sentence examples for industry strike from inspiring English sources

Attacks on the tourism industry strike the government in its soft underbelly: Egypt's faltering economy.

Mr. Vance said Wednesday that the indictment emerged from investigations by his office's construction industry strike force and the special investigations unit of the State Police.

More than 50 burned to death on the factory floor, 19 fell into the lift-shaft, at least 20 died when the overburdened fire escape broke free of the building and 53 jumped or fell from the windows.Many of the horrified onlookers would have known that the Triangle had been part of a 20,000 strong citywide garment industry strike the previous year.

More than a dozen state troopers and plainclothes detectives from the district attorney's Construction Industry Strike Force arrived with a search warrant at Lehr's offices at 902 Broadway, near 21st Street, in Manhattan, at 7 a.m. as employees were coming in.

One motivation for these divisions was to prevent a repeat of the unionization drive that had led to a five month steel industry strike in 1919 involving more than 250,000 workers.

The third factor, which is probably the most significant at this stage to explain why the crisis is so deep, is the currency controls -- which were implemented in 2003 after an oil industry strike aimed at ousting Chávez.

During the garment industry strikes of 1909 11, league members marched side by side with striking workers and helped set up strike funds.

The chemical industry struck back.

So government and industry struck a deal back in 2004.

Then overproduction and low prices hit the United States apple industry, striking hardest at the relatively small and low-yielding orchards of New England.

The bill would require drug makers to pay much more in rebates and discounts than in the $80 billion, 10-year deal that the industry struck in June with the White House and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus.