Sentence examples for lead a strike from inspiring English sources

Presidents of the country's biggest clubs threatened to lead a strike.

As its vice president in the 1960's, she helped lead a strike by the Radio City Rockettes.

When Nigerian Oil Workers Union leaders lead a strike to protest the military government, they were imprisoned with out a trial.

He helped lead a strike which won benefits for white workers but not, he was distu rbed to see, for African workers.

John Stokes Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County In 1951, Mr. Stokes helped lead a strike to improve conditions at the all-black Robert R. Moton High School in Farmville, Va.

PAGE 26 Arts & Leisure READ ALL ABOUT IT! KIDS VEX TITANS! "Newsies the Musical," the latest Disney property to reach Broadway, seems just as rooted in whimsy as past productions like "Mary Poppins" and "The Lion King," but its story of newsboys uniting to lead a strike against media titans in New York actually happened.

Grigorovich resigned, and Bessmertnova and a group of his supporters among the dancers led a strike in protest, leading to the cancellation of that evening's performance.

Physicians who led a strike in November were particularly badly treated, said the detainee, who requested anonymity.

His first novel, The Ink Truck (1969), concerns a colourful columnist named Bailey who leads a strike at his newspaper in Albany.

The focus was the Gdansk shipyard, where Lech Walesa led a strike to demand higher pay and the restitution of a fired worker.

The last time the culinary union led a strike in Las Vegas was in 1984, when about 15,000 workers walked out of their jobs.