Sentence examples for strikes slowed from inspiring English sources

IF YOU GO I took the worst route possible to Istanbul: a bus from Albania, passing through Greece, where huge strikes slowed traffic at the border and caused me to miss my connection in Thessaloniki.

The strikes slowed the group's advance, but a series of videos showing ISIL fighters beheading Western aid workers and journalists strengthened fears that the group posed a global threat.

It's election season in Argentina, and in spite of strikes slowing the oil industry and 100,000 Peronist workers marching down Avenida 9 de Julio to protest low wages, consumer spending is healthy enough for Goldman-Sachs to predict that annual growth this year will be higher than the 6percentt central bank estimate.

Paul Ballew, who was the Federal Reserve's expert on the auto industry for many years and who is now the chief economist at J. D. Power & Associates, said that the current strike slowed economic growth by half a percentage point in the second quarter and by an additional eight-tenths of one percent in the third quarter.

28 A belief is that oxazepam strikes slower, hence less-addictive, than diazepam.

Worker revolts have recently flared at some dam construction sites, while strikes have slowed work at Brazil's largest hydroelectric project, Belo Monte.

The strikes have slowed over the past month, as the Pakistani government forces have stepped up their fighting in the Swat Valley and other areas and have begun their own airstrikes in South Waziristan.

"Combined with continued resistance to Isil [another acronym for Islamic State] on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed Isil advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of Isil combat equipment and fighting positions," central command said in a statement.

"Combined with continued resistance to Isil on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed Isil advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of Isil combat equipment and fighting positions," the Centcom statement said.

The New York City draft riots in July 1863 and several machinist's strikes further slowed progress on Dunderberg.

Industrial unrest and strikes further slowed progress and the provisional government postponed further work on 24 October 1917 until "a more favorable time".