Sentence examples for strike stopped from inspiring English sources

The Expos had the best record in baseball at 74-40 when a players strike stopped the season in its tracks.

When the Writers Guild of America strike stopped television production last fall and winter, Hollywood writers and producers rushed to create new scripted series for the Web, often called webisodes for lack of a more artful term.

He had two projects in development before the writers' strike stopped the clock: a Strangelovian take on how the country got into Iraq, with Larry Gelbart, and a spy-and-amnesia thriller written by Amy Ephron.

The Dubliners nearly levelled five minutes after the goal with Moore's strike stopped by Doherty's feet.

The strike stopped all traffic at the airport, but the employees never received their demands.

While the U.S. claims that this weekend's strike stopped an imminent terror plot by al Shabab, analysts say violent attacks by its militants will continue.

(Can I blame the tube strike?) #GBBO But, for some, the Tube strike  will probably mean no GBBO for them tonight: If the tube strike stops me from getting home in time for Great British Bake Off tomorrow, I'll be really peed off If the #Tubestrike stops me getting home in time for #GBBO tonight there will be trouble.

The Egyptian army temporarily took over parts of Cairo's bus system this week, after strikes stopped services in most of the capital's 28 municipal garages amid ongoing industrial action in which a reported 100,000 workers have downed tools this year.

Unlike in previous seasons, when players' strikes stopped all play, the owners formed teams of replacement players to play the scheduled games.

Ms. Revere left New Orleans a day before Hurricane Katrina struck, stopping in Memphis and Houston before settling temporarily in Fort Worth.

Today, many of those atrocities have given way to predatory lending, redlining, mass incarceration, health disparities, voter exclusion, three strikes, stop and frisk, and stand your ground.