Sentence examples for strike enforced from inspiring English sources

The strike, enforced with considerable violence, involved more than 70 percent of the mining work force and lasted an unprecedented 21 days.

How were the original gang truces struck and enforced?

General strikes are enforced by thugs who pull people from their autos as they try to get to work.

Official conduct statements and rules always struck me as enforced and enforceable as jaywalking laws.

In the days before polling a hardline faction of the Maoists enforced strikes and curfews and was probably behind bomb attacks.

Between 1986 and 1997, average prison sentences (in federal prisons) increased from 39 months to 54 months.California's "three strikes" rule, which enforced a prison sentence for anybody caught committing a third felony (no matter how small), drove more into prison.

Either occurrence would be the equivalent of an unexpected and fully enforced doorman strike.

For four days it enforced a strike that brought the capital to a virtual standstill.On the evening of November 15th, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the League's leader, suspended the strike until November 20th.

The most serious violations include the systematic use of torture, illegal arrests, disappearances, executions by paramilitary death squads, the arrest of trade unionists, bans on strikes and allegations of enforced sterilisation in the State of Guererro.

The bad publicity created by the strike has re-enforced the impression of El Paso that its citizens have been working hard to correct: that it is a tacky Texas border town that exploits poor Mexicans.

When games routinely end with scores like 15-12, officials will grudgingly take steps to help the downtrodden pitchers, raising the mound a few inches from the 10-inch height that was legislated in 1968 and expanding the strike zone by enforcing the borders provided in the rule book.