Sentence examples for lockout like from inspiring English sources

"No one's ever done that because we've never had a lockout like we had there.

The referee lockout, like the player one a year ago, is trying to rid the N.F.L. of those pesky financial commitments it finds unnecessary.

Nor does anyone know yet whether they will lead to a brief lockout like those in the N.F.L. and N.B.A., or even a lost season, as the N.H.L. suffered in the 2004-5 lockout.

That bodes well for the roughly 200 players who went overseas during the lockout, like the Islanders' John Tavares, the Boston Bruins' Tyler Seguin, the Montreal Canadiens' Tomas Plekanec and the Devils' Ilya Kovalchuk, all of whom excelled with their European clubs.

But while he merely said it would have been difficult to sit out a year, former players who experienced the 2004-5 full-season likeout, like Mike Modano, Bill Guerin and Dave Andreychuk, have said missing a year simply was not worth it.

Her brother might carry this spirit of creative compromise, she said, into collective bargaining on behalf of his union after next season in an effort to avoid another lockout like the bitter one of 15 weeks that delayed the season -- and Kariya's professional career -- in 1994-95.

The subjects ranged from their working relationship with Sarah McLachlan, the end of the National Hockey League lockout, his like for playing -- but not watching -- Canada's national pastime and her feelings about Whitehorse's nomadic Bonnie-and-Clyde existence from a fearless, passionate perspective as they roam the countryside together trying to win over the folks in every town they play.

These are obviously things that aren't easy to assess in an empirical way, which is why the Baird government appointed an expert someone whose idea of a good night likely includes lots of activities affected by the lockouts, like the opera.

— Whenever the N.H.L. has one of its periodic lockouts, like the one that canceled what would have been opening night Thursday, people say there's no hockey.

Scoring also dipped in 1974, following a five-week summer lockout, and, like this season, several rule changes (moving the kickoff line, modified blocking and tackling rules).

These lockout laws, like PSPOs, are geographically demarcated and are meant to curb violence in the Kings Cross area, Sydney's traditional red-light district, by forcing premises to prohibit entry to venues after 1 30am.