Sentence examples similar to long term strike from inspiring English sources

To hear Mayor Riordan tell it, a long-term strike would "plunge our city and county into a recession".

Thousands of prisoners also refused to attend their work assignments for a third day, and state officials were bracing for a long-term strike.

They plan to rally in front of City Hall today and say they will consider a long-term strike if the city does not present a fair offer in 10 days.

It feels that in the long term, South Korea should strike a balance between the United States and China and adopt a more neutral position toward the United States".

So this is my Budget judgement: instead of the old short-termism of looking only a year or a month ahead, we lock in stability for the long term and, by striking the right balance today between long term investments and affordable tax cuts, we not only boost enterprise and savings, but meet the needs of not just some but all Britain's families.

In 2013 inmates organized a strike in long term solitary in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay Prison.

I thought about what it would take to endure a real, long-term hunger strike with all the pain – physical and emotional – involved.

A number of them have been on a long-term hunger strike and all were split up within the centre to "keep them quiet".

Among them will be Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been on a long-term hunger strike and has lost about half of his body weight.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said Saturday that his security forces were struggling because Israel had refused to allow them to import a shipment of weapons, and that he was "very, very, very afraid" of what might happen if one of the Palestinian prisoners on a long-term hunger strike died.

But a senior Israeli official said the government would not accede to Palestinian requests to release four prisoners who have been on a long-term hunger strike or 123 people who have been detained since before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.