Sentence examples for waterfront strike from inspiring English sources

Mr. DeLeon ticked off a list that included the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (a local union protest that sparked national reforms); the Beats of the 1950s ("the foundation for the hippie countercultural movement"); local wars over the Manhattanization of San Francisco, starting in the late '70s; the antinuclear and antigentrification actions of the '80s.

By Stanley Ferber and Berton Roueché The New Yorker, October 5, 1946 P. 23 During the waterfront strike, the parents of a young man, who works at the Museum of Modern Art, arrived from abroad and he went to meet them.

A strike on the waterfront saw Robertson committing troops to help unload cargo.

Patrons have returned in force to the Souk Sharq market on the waterfront, where the Iraqi missile struck in March.

Just say mural to the girl at the clipping desk and she will hand you pictures of the New York Waterfront, foundries, skyscrapers under construction, strikes, freight and pa ssenger vessels, Eugene Debbs, Susan B. Anthony, John Brown, Emma Goldman, H.C. Frick, the Century of Progress Exposition and agricultural machinery.

After hearing a young longshoreman named Jack Olsen call for a major strike on San Francisco's waterfront, Tillie and Abe Goldfarb moved there to help support the strikers.

They were struck by the neatness of the waterfront: the debris had mostly been cleared.

A manhunt is underway for the attacker, who struck the popular Reina nightclub an upscale waterfront nightspot, popular with celebrities and foreigners at about 1 15 a.m. local time, officials say.

A manhunt is underway for the attacker, who struck the popular Reina nightclub an upscale waterfront nightspot, popular with celebrities and foreigners at about 1 15 AM local time, officials say.

When the global real estate crisis struck in 2008, most new American buyers disappeared from the market, and prices for waterfront and sea-view homes took a hit.

In recent decades, as New York hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs, especially along the waterfront, the plant has been the scene of bitter strikes that drastically cut production.