Sentence examples for strike business from inspiring English sources

Yes, since the stagehands' strike, business has generally been booming for the eight Broadway shows not shut down, and for Off Broadway shows and other artistic alternatives.

The rules would prohibit Internet providers from arbitrarily blocking or slowing delivery of online services, but they could strike business deals in which a company might pay extra for faster access to consumers.

In the 1966 strike, business losses exceeded $100 million a day, police overtime and uncollected sales taxes totaled $72 million, theaters and restaurants lost 40percentt of their income, and $3 million in transit revenues went by the boards.

Your analysis of the Verizon strike (Business Day, Aug. 22) glossed over a crucial feature of the dispute: the unions were adamant and successful in negotiating a simple and fast way (the tally of membership cards) to demonstrate majority support for the right to represent Verizon's nonunion wireless workers.

"In investing," he says with a grin, "I'm in a no-called strike business, which is the best business you can be in…I can pick the ball I wanna hit". Becoming Warren Buffett, it would seem, has evolved in many ways from doing nothing as well as doing the right thing.

Recent flooding, from Hurricane Diane, along the Delaware River kept residents along its banks alert should the storm strike, business owners were also ready to move their merchandise if the need arose.

At the local level, it is after all communities, as well as businesses that are often the first responders after a crisis -- shopkeepers open their stores and warehouses when disasters strike; businesses distribute food, water, clothing and other goods.

Coca-Cola says the consumer strike has hit business in Bahrain, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and lopped up to 10% off its sales in the region.

"I've struck business deals by the pool".

Before 1935 the New Deal focused on revitalizing the country's stricken business and agricultural communities.

FOREIGN investment is flooding back, the malls are filling with shoppers and deals are being struck: business in the United Arab Emirates is booming once again.