Sentence examples for laid down tools from inspiring English sources
Following strikes by engineering workers last month, building workers laid down tools this week for the first time in over 50 years.Meanwhile Mr Stoiber has been acquainting the nation with his "team of experts", a kind of shadow cabinet, though no ministerial posts have been promised.
FOR the first time in 18 years, South Africa's gold miners have laid down their tools.
It's hot! It's like steamed milk!" — and two construction workers, on their lunch break, laid down their tools and stripped naked.
Several weeks later, the people once more laid down their tools and took to the streets for the 2017 International Women's Strike.
When they passed through a Philadelphia train yard, hundreds of people laid down their tools so they wouldn't disturb the president, Picone said.
LONDON — There are star players like Wayne Rooney, Luis Suárez and Gareth Bale, who effectively laid down their tools and barely trained this summer to try to force the clubs who pay their wages to sell them.
Workers at the pressing plant laid down their tools in protest at the song's content.
I laid down my tools, took a deep breath and paused for a moment.
On that date he laid down his tools, headed to Bronx Park with two razors, and slit his own throat along the west bank of the Bronx River.
Rivers has already laid down the law.
