Sentence examples for lost striking from inspiring English sources

But referendums in France and the Netherlands in May and June 2005 were lost, striking a deadly blow to this constitutional project which had been three years in the making.

Her fingers flew so fast on the controller that she left both Bach and the audience completely lost, struck by how much more technologically adept a kid could be than a conference room full of techies.

You have nothing to lose! Strike up a conversation with the waitress in a restaurant, cashier at the convenient store, or driver on the bus.

He has met with a stream of angry parents and worried students, especially high school seniors worried about college admissions and the prospect of the lost strike days being made up next summer.

The Teamsters had spent years trying to unionize Overnite, and were battered in a losing strike against Overnite that lasted from 1999 to 2002.

Fielder hit both homers against Cole Hamels (2-3), who lost despite striking out a season-high 11.

Vazquez (1-1) lost despite striking out a career-high 14 in seven innings.

As Ms. Bialek had insisted it would, the school board refused to make up the pay that teachers lost by striking.

Not a single day has been lost to strike action at the plant.

Some 39m working days were lost to strike action in 1978 and again in 1979.

Over the years, he has made and lost friends, struck up a romance or two, and watched the neighborhoods around the park's perimeter change.