Sentence examples for workers promptly from inspiring English sources

City workers promptly went on strike, fearing further privatization.

On Sunday morning, though, the workers promptly dropped their sponges, turned off several monster-size hoses and walked out.

Mr. Mahoney said KeySpan workers promptly investigated the complaint, performed extensive testing inside and outside 422 State Street, but failed to detect any leakage of gas.

Permitted for the first time to join trade unions under a new law, the country's 120,000 public-sector workers promptly demanded a 16% pay rise after a three-year wage freeze.

She said that when they complained to the building's developer, the Extell Development Company, workers promptly showed up, opened up walls and then resealed the ceiling and walls to try to keep the smoke out.

The workers promptly unloaded a shiny new glass booth to replace it and installed it with little fanfare, bringing a smile to the face of Alan Flacks, a resident of 100th Street who was standing by.

A local rail worker promptly clambered up Mary's bulk and secured a heavier chain for a second, successful hoisting.

A worker promptly called the cops, and we spent an hour hiding behind train wheels, trying to not be seen by a prowling cop car.

But Redden's mother, a custodial worker, had promptly sold the banjo.

So rare was it for women to pick up a gun that such an occurrence would be treated as an unexpected twist, as when Grace Kelly shucks off her Quakerhood to shoot the outlaw who has cornered her husband in High Noon (1952), or when William Holden gets plugged in the back in The Wild Bunch (1969) by a nameless Mexican sex worker – who promptly gets called a bitch and gunned down for her trouble.

A relative of a woman who was murdered by her partner says if social workers had acted promptly, she may not have died.