It was Peter S. Kalikow, the M.T.A. chairman, not Roger Toussaint, president of Local 100, who said: "The M.T.A. has remained in the hotel since the strike commenced, ready to negotiate.
So we worked all that into the scene, and that was the final scene he worked on before the strike commenced.
The date when the women's strike commenced on the Julian calendar, which was then in use in Russia, was Sunday 23 February.
Since the air strikes commenced, forces of the FRY and Serbia have intensified their systematic campaign and have forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians.
"It's very, very possible, and, I will tell you, it's already happened, that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much," President Trump told reporters before the missile strikes had commenced.
If President Obama had fully followed Reinhold Niebuhr, the strike would have surely commenced by now.
If the anticipated tube strikes commence as planned, London Underground users will experience limited tube service starting at roughly 9.30 pm on Tuesday 4 February.
The 48-hour national strike was commencing, and within half an hour of my arrival the square - which has become a base camp for everyone who's Greek and disgruntled - was full.
Union negotiations backed by the threat of strikes usually do have a list of demands which, if satisfied, will avert the strike, and if not, will commence or prolong a strike.
Aaron Doran's late strike was scant consolation as the party commenced.
One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot – the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position.
