Sentence examples for strike police from inspiring English sources

The conflict launched the city's largest-ever teachers' strike; police barricades and helicopters kept the teachers apart from the activists, some of whom were armed.

Top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department met on Thursday to examine ways to search the Internet to identify potential "deranged" gunmen before they strike, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.

At a press conference after the decision, prosecutors told those present to "watch him almost strike police officers" as they showed a clip of surveillance video in which Thomas drove past an officer who stepped to his side to ensure he was well clear of the vehicle as it rounded a corner.

As protesters began attacking those who refused to join the strike, police threw tear gas at the crowd to disperse them, Reuters news agency reports.

The targets of the strike, police and not Hamas militants, give us some clue as to Israel's mistaken intention.

Striking police officers also occupied the National Assembly, where hundreds of Mr. Correa's supporters gathered outside.

This illness is nothing like the Blue Flu, that mysterious ailment that strikes police officers suddenly, overnight, during times of labor disagreements, causing them to miss a shift.

"It doesn't appear that any vital organs have been struck," Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, adding that no weapon was found at the scene.

Five people were hospitalized with injuries: the suspect, two police officers, and a mother and her young child whose vehicle was struck, police said.

Two other blasts struck police stations, one in southwest Baghdad that killed two people and a suicide bomber and the other in the northern part of the city.

The terror took hold when she looked in the rearview mirror and saw a tractor-trailer "coming full speed". Her car was struck, police said.