Sentence examples for observed a strike from inspiring English sources

Some Air France workers observed a strike on Tuesday in solidarity with the defendants.

Various lawyers' associations throughout the country boycotted their usual court proceedings and observed a strike to mark the day.

Plastered with happy pictures of President Assad, tanks are still stationed watchfully on a grassy patch not far from the district.On May 18th many of Homs's people observed a general strike.

Parts of Kurdistan observed a general strike in protest.In the capital all eyes are on the struggle between Mr Ahmadinejad and his sworn enemy, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president and the head of several government bodies, who has been repeatedly humiliated since he failed to prevent the president's "re-election" last summer.

On 25 February, industrial workers in the town of Narayanganj observed a general strike.

On Wednesday and Thursday, the vast majority of businesses in eastern Caracas observed a two-day strike and remained closed to the public.

Can you just see the fear on their faces as they back up against the shut door of one of the stores observing a commercial strike?

The country's main trade unions of the General Labour Federation of Burkina Faso launched a joint appeal "to observe a general strike throughout the national territory against the RSP interference in politics and for a true democracy".

With an unobstructed view, we were able to observe a N50°W strike and 63°S dip.

There are several steps, however, that Major League Baseball should take but probably won't to bring a wee bit more balance to the game: Umpires should be forced to observe a uniform strike zone, the one described in Major League Baseball's own rulebook.

One group of protesters also observed a one-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar.