Sentence examples for strikes across from inspiring English sources

There were strikes across the country on August 6th.

Great Railroad Strike of 1877, series of violent rail strikes across the United States in 1877.

In 1919 a six-week general strike paralyzed Winnipeg and sparked sympathetic strikes across Canada.

Israeli warplanes bombarded south Beirut yesterday and launched 100 strikes across south Lebanon.

A union source said there could be strikes across the mail and postal sector.

The U.S. military coördinates daily air strikes across northern Iraq from a command center in Erbil.

Union leaders say Hutton's proposals will "inevitably" trigger strikes across the country.

Jinnah demonstrated his newfound power by ordering mass strikes across India, many of which degenerated into Hindu-Muslim riots.

His reception was stony, and many unions are now talking of large, co-ordinated strikes across the public sector.

It is in this context that the sudden spreading of rent strikes across the capital can be understood.

Papandreou, whose austerity measures have prompted a wave of strikes across his country, claims Greece is being unfairly victimised.