Sentence examples for strike originated from inspiring English sources

According to the flier, the idea for the hunger strike originated at the Bergen County Jail, one of several in New Jersey where the federal government holds noncitizens while it tries to deport them, including legal immigrants with old criminal convictions, illegal immigrants and people seeking asylum.

The strike originated from a group of cabbies in Chongqing, a city in Sichuan province, where drivers protested high rental fees and unlicensed cabs.

It is simply untruthful... to continue the assertion that trade unions are mainly controlled and strikes originated by agitators, interested only for what they make out of them".

His mujahideen showed their verve last Sunday by capturing the small town of Diabaly, north of Mopti, with a lightening strike that originated over the border in Mauritania.

Many of the coalition's strikes on Raqqa originated with front-line revolutionary Kurdish commanders like Ali Sher.

Those decisions, stemming from litigation dating to 1971 and known as the Mount Laurel rulings, from the New Jersey town where the case originated, struck down local zoning ordinances that barred affordable and rental housing for the poor.

On its own, the physical evidence provided to ARES experts for technical analysis was insufficient to eliminate the possibility that the October 2 strike may also have originated from land controlled by pro-Russian forces.

When the major earthquake struck last May, it originated 3.4 miles from the reservoir.

At least one team entered the United States via Canada and made its way to Boston, where the flights of the two aircraft that struck the World Trade Center originated.

If so, he should start by looking to his own house -- its lack of democratic institutions, its token support for the Palestinian cause to distract attention from dissent at home, and the fact that the terrorism that struck New York on Sept. 11 originated in large measure in Saudi Arabia.

Much of what today strikes us as quackery in fact originated in attempts to apply scientific ideas to healing the body.