Sentence examples for to interrupt work from inspiring English sources

Situations vary, but a collective determination to interrupt work or school, to blockade an institution or a university, to withhold payment of rents and debts, can take all kinds of forms in all kinds of places.

Döblin had to interrupt work on the novel in March 1917 because he had caught typhus, but was able to use the university library at Heidelberg during his convalescence in April and May to continue researching the Thirty Years' War.

Reasons for not drinking water more frequently included not wanting to interrupt work in order to avoid upsetting their supervisor and to make more money (e.g. for piece rate workers).

You don't want to interrupt subcontractor work, but if you can get to the boss or general contractor you can compliment their work and start a conversation.

Students, she explained, won't want to interrupt their work.

Then he'd have to interrupt his work to give me a beating with his belt.

The mishaps distract the guards, forcing them to interrupt their work and call for reinforcements.

Our power is through collective action, our power to withhold our labor, our power to interrupt their work".

The attack on the World Trade Center, followed by the anthrax scare, caused her to interrupt her work for several weeks.

I am very sorry to interrupt your work, but I have an announcement that requires your immediate attention.

He said the e-mail messages simply showed staffers who would prefer not to interrupt their work during an intense campaign to answer campaign finance inquiries.