Sentence examples for office strike from inspiring English sources

Today's Post Office strike – taking place in less comfortable conditions than the parliamentary hearing – mirrors the anxieties about the future of the great institution of Royal Mail.

He talked from time to time about going back to Heriot Watt or somewhere else and resuming his studies, but when the Post Office strike of that year began, and Bernie became one of the chief organisers in our branch, it was obvious that he was happy and excited by the challenge of trade union politics and organisation.

TfL said during the last RMT ticket office strike in April, half its services ran.

The bells of Big Ben just outside his office struck five o'clock in the background.

The choice of Staten Island for Mr. Hevesi's first physical office struck some Democrats as curious.

"The idea that he could find anything in that office struck me as amazing," Dr. Chu said.

But then something like a chain reaction occurs: they win the office, then the office strikes back, challenging a president, chastening him, confronting him with all he doesn't know".

Democratic operatives and fund-raisers said the prospect of Mrs. Clinton's seeking citywide office struck them as improbable, whether or not she ever mounts a second run for the White House.

Mr. Wilson, a former hedge fund manager who has never before run for office, struck back by attacking Mr. DiNapoli, a veteran legislator, as a "creature of Albany" unqualified to function as the state's chief financial officer.

In a recent article on cinemas ("The box office strikes back", May 6th) we wrote that big Hollywood studios had shut or run down "specialty" divisions such as Focus Features, part of Universal Studios.

The real money was in home entertainment, especially sales of DVDs.In this section The box office strikes back Love is in the air Vale of the trolls Join the party!