Sentence examples for pickets on from inspiring English sources

The Home Office also told Thatcher that the most notable development in police tactics during the strike – the policy of "stopping and turning back" busloads of flying pickets on the motorways – was not the "unmixed blessing" it had been officially seen as.

The crime set off vigils, petitions and pickets on both sides, and a campaign for a solution as modest as it was obvious -- a "shape-up site" that would allow workers to leave the streets and parking lots and find basic shelter, toilets and a modicum of dignity and safety.

On 24 June, though, at Kehl, Moreau's advance guard, 10,000, preceded the main force of 27,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry directed at the Swabian pickets on the bridge.

But Justice Kapnick said she was hard pressed to see how she could stop Mr. Hume from picketing on a public sidewalk and expressing what she called "one man's opinion".

The Amalgamated Transit Union, one of the two unions that called the strike, halted picketing on Sunday out of respect for the two workers, said Chris Finn, recording secretary for the union.

Picket, on the other hand, picks up some nasty habits.

African-Americans are now picketing on the street, chanting for fair employment and equal opportunity.

Both shows were also picketed on their first night back by the writers.

But at least 400 customers expressed their anger by picketing on Saturday outside the power authority's offices in Hicksville.

In response, several hundred students, including many football players, picketed on the front lawn of Turner's residence.

Union officials said the picketing on Monday would coincide with the beginning of preparatory construction work for the convention.