Sentence examples for labor agitation from inspiring English sources

Coal companies and the railroads that hauled coal often deployed armed thugs to respond to labor agitation.

The day began with another parade at Union Square Park, once a crossroads for labor agitation and union organizing, which the National Park Service declared a National Historic Landmark yesterday.

The labor agitation came as a surprise in this city of glass towers and marble-tiled malls where social harmony is part of the marketing plan and political action can seem all but extinct.

Concerns about a potential domino effect of labor agitation at other big infrastructure projects are emerging as workers push for wage increases at a time when Brazil's unemployment rate, currently 6.2percentt, is historically low.

Russia, long troubled with labor agitation and peasant unrest, was the weak link of the Entente alliance, and it is not surprising the Germans put so much effort into undermining Czarist rule.

The scenes that work best -- the opening, with the playful Vixen and her mother cavorting through field and forest; the Vixen's parody of left-wing labor agitation (like something out of "Chicken Run"); and the detailed characterization of all manner of bees and bugs -- are vivid evocations of a fantastic animal world.

Although this may result in labor agitations in Ghana due to the relatively low incomes of citizens, behavioral change in the efficient use of electricity (which has been the basis of energy efficiency campaigns in Ghana) is still key.

It is argued that health system reforms aimed at UHC can be traced back to the emergence of organized health care in the 19th century, in response to labor agitations calling for the implementation of social security systems [ 16– 16].

"Thanks to you President Lagos I am now going to sell insurance!" This was no small miracle in a town that a generation ago was rife with labor unrest and Communist and Socialist agitation, leading Salvador Allende, then the president, to nationalize the local coal mines.

Lehane, whose previous novels include "Mystic River" and "Gone, Baby, Gone," sets his latest at the end of the First World War, as waves of immigration, uneasy race relations, and agitation over labor issues culminate in a police strike in Boston.

The executive order likely never would have happened without the steady agitation of labor groups, particularly Good Jobs Nation, which is backed by the Change to Win union federation.