Sentence examples for striking air from inspiring English sources

Reagan cited Coolidge's tough handling of striking Boston police when he fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired and permanently replaced 11,000 striking air traffic controllers.

Yet when Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about his book, it is with a striking air of disinterested detachment.

Even when he controversially dismissed striking air traffic controllers who were federal employees, he seemed immune to any lasting political backlash.

Mr. Rowland's detractors have likened his strategy to President Ronald Reagan's decision to hire thousands of replacement workers after he fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

He said he was spurred to become involved in organized labor in Hollywood after President Ronald Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Further, he said the greatest foreign policy decision of his lifetime was Reagan firing striking air-traffic controllers.

As one of Reagan's advisers in the controversial dismissal of striking air-traffic-control workers, Giuliani saw early the value of high-stakes political confrontation.

Ronald Reagan opened his first term by giving striking air-traffic controllers the sack and replacing them with their military counterparts until replacements were trained.

In 1981, his childhood hero, Ronald Reagan, fired more than eleven thousand striking air-traffic controllers and banned them from being rehired for life.

The most jolting blow came last month when President Reagan personally ordered the dismissal from their federal jobs of 12,000 striking air-traffic controllers and moved to destroy their union by stripping it of its bargaining rights.