Sentence examples for threatened work from inspiring English sources

Ver.di this year organized a strike by workers at Zara, the clothing retailer, and has threatened work stoppages at Globus, a discount chain, Mr. Jöris said.

Caring threatened work, either the quality of it or the sheer possibility of keeping their job.

Competing demands threatened work by diminished productivity, late arrivals or periods of absence [ 9].

A threatened work stoppage has been averted by the deal.

During World War II Koch was a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section, a group of art historians who worked to safeguard threatened works of art.

While there has been some flooding of churches, which hold much of Italy's cultural patrimony, the water generally has not yet threatened works of art, said Vincenzo Pandolfino, of the Culture Ministry's art-protection division.

The workers had told the officials they had been threatened, worked in insanitary and dangerous conditions and worked excessively long days with few breaks.

The cave was deep in the jungle and the monsoon was threatening: working in sodden clothes and with a middling internet connection came also as no surprise.

The city is sunk into recession's mire, unemployment tops 10percentt — black male unemployment edges toward 50percentt — and foreclosure threatens working class families, and the candidates made glancing mentions of all of this.

Several circumstances threatened to work against this event.

It was a desperate ploy that seldom threatened to work.