Sentence examples for violent strikes from inspiring English sources
Violent strikes were frequent.
He fought against communist infiltration in the guild, crossing picket lines to break the sometimes violent strikes.
Filipino activism had deep roots: harsh treatment in the Hawaiian cane fields, including whippings, led to a history of sometimes violent strikes.
The towns of Rustenburg and Marikana, which saw violent strikes at Lonmin and other producers last year, have endured disputes over looming job cuts and wage talks.
One result was a series of violent strikes that live on in the American folk memory, like the Homestead and Pullman strikes and the Haymarket riot.
Here, despite substantial achievements in prison reform, he had to devote himself principally to coping with a sweeping wave of industrial unrest and violent strikes.
Inflation is shooting up, and jail guards recently held a violent strike.
Most of my latest book was written longhand, in messy handwriting and violent strike-throughs.
The Jeffrey mine's hold on Quebec and Canadian politics started with an unusually violent strike against Johns Manville in 1949.
In 1990 a violent strike by South African railway workers inspired Ngema to write the musical Township Fever.
On several occasions Chinese executives, faced with particularly violent strike action, have opened fire on their workforce.
