Sentence examples for strike themselves from inspiring English sources

Ms. Flanagan, the company spokeswoman, said Verizon did not know how many of its 25 million residential and business customers in the 13-state region had lost service because the employees who would have compiled such figures were either filling in for strikers or on strike themselves.

Those thick-skinned patriots of history who would rather strike themselves off the sexual market then watch the most resolutely old-fashioned tradition on earth die should congratulate themselves.

In February 2018, on the 50th anniversary of the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, low-wage workers across the South went on strike themselves and, following in the footsteps of those who came before them, marched for what one woman told the Guardian was nothing more than "respect and a decent wage".

Originally it didn't describe a disease striking people, but rather people striking themselves on their breasts in distress, lamenting their fate.

But the tabloids were also increasingly hit by strikes themselves.

Over time, however, the costs of the drone strikes themselves have become more evident.

"It's impossible to keep the strikes themselves secret, but you've never had a serious public debate by Congress on it".

"The cumulative effect of these drone strikes on civilian casualties…has been far greater in terms of their indirect victims (eg those died  in the terrorist reprisals) than the victims directly killed in the drone strikes themselves," the report concluded.

The report adds that witnesses "provided first-hand accounts of drone strikes, and provided testimony about a range of issues, including the missile strikes themselves, the strike sites, the victims' bodies, or a family member or members killed or injured in the strike".

Shiites mark the events by striking themselves, often with blows of the hand to the chest, with flails or with blade-tipped chains, which are more typical of Pakistani devotions.

Millions of black-clad pilgrims — some of them striking themselves with chains, swords or their hands in a display of mourning — packed the streets near the shrine and navigated hundreds of police checkpoints.