Sentence examples for mass stoppage from inspiring English sources
A few minutes earlier, fleshing out his vision of a mass stoppage in support of the final repeal of the Thatcher government's trade-union legislation, that reliable ultra-leftist desperado, Bob Crow, evoked the image of his members being locked up en masse in the new Wembley stadium, at the behest of an alliance of Boris Johnson and the boss class.
From there, he and other party leaders watched as discontent mounted, until in 1980 it spilled over into mass stoppages, which compelled them – in a dramatic departure from Communist orthodoxy – to accept free trade unions and grant the legal right to strike.
It was a mass work stoppage, which would have been called a strike if the workers had been civilians.
Tellingly, the streets of Athens were plastered on Friday with posters calling on Greeks to participate in protests, work stoppages and mass rallies in the coming days.
Wright's report was passed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal who added his opinion that it was "mass fear" motivating the work stoppage.
Rob Atkinson's sublime volley and Mark Hudson's drive three minutes into stoppage time – the second goal marked by a mass pitch invasion – settled what should have been a thud-and-blunder affair.
By the last available official count, so-called mass incidents — a term that appears to cover group actions ranging from minor work stoppages to serious riots — numbered 74,000 in 2004, up from 10,000 in 1993.
Three minutes of stoppage time.
The stoppage has serious implications.
