Sentence examples for stoppages down from inspiring English sources

But the numbers tell the story: Last year, American unions engaged in 159 work stoppages, down from 1,352 in 1981, according to the Bureau of National Affairs, a publisher of legal and regulatory news.

Should a work stoppage shut down the 2011 NFL season, a growing possibility, DirecTV is still on the hook for that season's $1 billion, according to a recent Sports Illustrated report (neither Rolapp not Shanks will confirm or deny that).

That could include work stoppages that close down classes without warning, or an open-ended strike that could effectively shut down the campus, he says.

The 1976 agreement with the monetary fund was not only seen as a national embarrassment, it remained a symbol of a country that, under various Labor governments, effectively lost control of the economy to militant trade unions, resulting in spiraling debt and rampant work stoppages that brought down Britain.

The Sugar Bowl was ladled out like a tureen of molasses, demonstrating the need for legislation to ban clock stoppages for first downs.

Oil prices fell by nearly $1 a barrel after labor unions halted a strike in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, where the work stoppage had shut down most major economic activity.

A Carl Tremarco header with nine minutes remaining gave the visitors a fillip until Lewis Horner was sent off in stoppage time for hauling down Craig Wighton.

Then in stoppage time Szczesny brought down the substitute James Milner and Touré's penalty made it the first time since 1937-38 that City had scored six at home on three occasions.

As stoppage time was running down in Germany's 2-1 win over Brazil in the group stage of the 2000 Sydney Games, Prinz almost became the first women to register an Olympic hat-trick.

And the largest attendance for a soccer event in Orlando, surpassing the World Cup crowds of 1994, was treated to a rollercoaster ride of epic proportions as Adrian Heath's men – trailing to a sucker 76th-minute punch, down to 10 men and down to stoppage time – claimed a 1-1 dralmostost as if it had been ordained by some purple-clad sporting gods.

But there was even later drama in equally vile weather across the Pennines at Knowsley Road, where the Wakefield team who had gone down in stoppage time to Leeds last Friday held on for a 22-20 win thanks to a last-minute penalty miss by the Saints full-back Paul Wellens, who had been unable to convert any of his team's five tries.