Sentence examples for stopped work to from inspiring English sources
In the fall of 1972, local bus drivers stopped work to demand the right to unionize.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "Up to two million public service workers have stopped work to send a strong and united message to the Government.
After 10 years as a software consultant for IBM, I stopped work to have my three children – now seven, eight, and 11.
The first identifiable labour strike dates from 1768, when journeymen tailors in New York City stopped work to resist a pay cut.
In Skorzec, a tiny village about four miles south of Ciechanowiec, two farmers, Czeslaw Bojar, 59, and his neighbor, Kazimierz Murowski, 64, stopped work to chat and complain.
"In July last year I stopped work to focus on my daughter, my novel, and to make sure my home wasn't a bombsite..
"He never stopped working to get better".
Some wives stopped working to raise the children.
Again, Ms. Clarke stopped working to take care of her newborn.
He married a gifted and successful animator, who then stopped working to raise their two sons.
"She stopped working to go be with him," said her sister.
