Sentence examples for the strike stopped from inspiring English sources

The strike stopped all traffic at the airport, but the employees never received their demands.

Hurley felt that the writing on the show managed to get into a rhythm during the second half of the first season, and that the strike stopped that and resulted in his eventually leaving the series.

There is little to be said for the strike stopping some customers getting their Christmas presents in the post, nor the ones threatened by British Airways cabin staff and baggage handlers at many of the UK's airports that threaten long-planned festive breaks, nor for the long-running dispute that is making the lives of commuters in parts of south-east England so miserable.

The strikes stopped a month-long downhill slide in his approval ratings and drew attention away from congressional Republicans' inability to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as they had promised.

He had two projects in development before the writers' strike stopped the clock: a Strangelovian take on how the country got into Iraq, with Larry Gelbart, and a spy-and-amnesia thriller written by Amy Ephron.

When the Writers Guild of America strike stopped television production last fall and winter, Hollywood writers and producers rushed to create new scripted series for the Web, often called webisodes for lack of a more artful term.

The Expos had the best record in baseball at 74-40 when a players strike stopped the season in its tracks.

Every day, Cora Scott picked up a copy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette--until last year, when a strike stopped the presses.

The Dubliners nearly levelled five minutes after the goal with Moore's strike stopped by Doherty's feet.

Jonathan Jonahh" Nolan signed on to polish the script and Paramount Pictures agreed to produce it, but the long 2007 Hollywood writers' strike stopped everyone's momentum.

(Can I blame the tube strike?) #GBBO But, for some, the Tube strike  will probably mean no GBBO for them tonight: If the tube strike stops me from getting home in time for Great British Bake Off tomorrow, I'll be really peed off If the #Tubestrike stops me getting home in time for #GBBO tonight there will be trouble.