Sentence examples for strike a couple from inspiring English sources

There was a small strike a couple of weeks ago and several hundred staff staged a lunchtime protest outside the European commission on Wednesday complaining about the impact of proposed cuts on people "who provide the necessary human resources for achieving the union's tasks".

It probably isn't surprising that I have been out on strike a couple of times in the last few months.

An eight-month strike a couple of years ago by prisoner Samer Issawi drew international attention when he came close to death.

Defensively speaking, Deans has already struck a couple of solid blows.

Smith has also struck a couple of significant doubles with the ball.

Sean Ervine struck a couple of drives against Giles before he was too slow to withdraw his bat against Harmison.

The Telegraph also raised a tangential point that struck a couple of other papers about the "shadowy and allegedly independent body" known as the Honours Forfeiture Committee.

He cover-drove Clark for his first boundary and then struck a couple of blows in one over off Johnson, one through covers and the other a glance through fine leg.

Now he's being tarred as a plagiarist because some passages in his 2001 novel Atonement struck a couple of gadfly readers as too similar to parts of a memoir that McEwan used during his research.

Instead, the SUV was propelled into the bus stop, striking a couple, each about 70 years old, and their daughter, who is about 50,  according to Officer Mike Lopez, an LAPD spokesman, and officers at the scene. .

If you strike out a couple times, remember the saying "How will you ever know your on top if you've never been on the bottom looking up?".