Gaining increasing influence in the ANC, Mandela and his cadres began advocating direct action against apartheid, such as boycotts and strikes, influenced by the tactics of South Africa's Indian community.
Over the past 30 years, however, astronauts who watched thunderstorms from space reported believing that lightning strikes influence each other even when hundreds of kilometers apart, a phenomenon astronaut Edward Gibson called "sympathetic lightning bolts".
"I have no doubt the teachers' ability to take strike action influenced the government's decision to pay in full the recommendation of their pay-review body," says Jan Berry, the chairman of the federation.
The strike directly influenced the reelection of President Grover Cleveland over Benjamin Harrison in 1892, and the strikers' defeat retarded the unionization of American steelworkers for more than 40 years.
BMW, a big German carmaker, says the damage caused by the strike will influence the company's future investment plans.That sobering statement came just days after the IMF's anual health-check on the economy.
The global climate shifts in various ways on a number of timescales, and its particular disposition at the time a volcano strikes will influence the way the volcano's effects play out.
In France, trade unions have called attention to the legal and social conditions of immigrants, using strikes to influence government decisions on legalization of residence and work status.
Some claim that the FVdG influenced strikes in the arms industry as early as February or March 1918, but the organization was not re-established on a national level until December 1918.
We also explored the factors influencing STRIKE's capacity to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate MSAs.
The coming contract talks will also be influenced by "no strike" pledges given by the union to both G.M. and Chrysler, as a condition for the Obama administration's support of government assistance.
