Sentence examples for overwhelming strikes from inspiring English sources

If recessions deepen, the social and political backlash against austerity will become overwhelming: strikes, riots, violence, demonstrations, the rise of extremist political parties, and the collapse of weak governments.

While the overwhelming preponderance of strikes seemed to have hit their targets without killing noncombatants, many factors contributed to a run of fatal mistakes.

Yet the one overwhelming fact that struck me again and again, wherever I went and whoever I spoke to, is that Emil Zátopek was loved.

What had been an overwhelming mandate for strike action was turning into a catastrophic retreat for a significant and growing minority of the workforce.

"In reality, you were the first responders to the overwhelming tragedy that struck our city that day," he told the dispatchers, who were given certificates of recognition.

But recently, a few teams of cardiac specialists -- nurses, doctors and psychologists -- have begun to concentrate on the mental fatigue and overwhelming sadness that strike many patients.

The move follows a ballot earlier this month, which saw an overwhelming vote for strike action over an imposed pay offer of 0.75%.

"The academic body at the university rejected the plans at its senate meeting last month and now the staff have given an overwhelming mandate for strike action at the Open University for the first time in its history.

For the Victorian redbrick institution – one of the elite Russell Group of universities – the overwhelming vote for strike action has left its leadership trapped between resentful staff and a ­debt-burdened government.

Not only does he eat, sleep, breathe and dream engines, propshafts and trail-braking, but the overwhelming quality that struck me about him is that he's just such a pro.

Unite said it had received an overwhelming mandate for strike action from the workforce, with 81.4% voting for walkouts and 90% for other forms of industrial action, on an 86% turnout.