general strike in English
The stoppage was the second major general strike to be held recently to protest the changes.
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1. The Socialist response was a general strike.
2. Students and unions threatened a general strike.
3. A general strike was called for 6 April.
4. Their purpose was to call a general strike.
5. Early in November it called a second general strike.
6. The general strike by ship builders resurged in 19
7. A general strike brought the country to a standstill.
8. A general strike, as planned, began on 8 August 1988.
9. Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike.
10. The general strike of the railway workers crippled the country's economy.
11. The planned general strike represents an important economic challenge to the government.
12. He volunteered to work cleaning engines during the Australian General Strike of 1917.
13. Shops, offices and public transport were shut down and a general strike began.
14. In 19 a student rebellion in Paris sparked off a nationwide general strike.
15. A further 24-hour general strike on May 22 severely disrupted transport and services.
16. Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?
17. The General Labour Confederation abandoned its call for a general strike originally scheduled for that day.
18. A general strike, however, organized on June 19 by the National Confederation Union, attracted little support.
19. The Alliance called a general strike the next day, but cancelled further demonstrations, fearing fresh violence.
20. Following a general strike and calls for his resignation, the President was arrested on 26 March.
21. The Labour Party in parliament did not immediately suffer from the reaction against the General Strike.
22. 27 A general strike, however, organized on June 19 by the National Confederation Union, attracted little support.
23. They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism.
24. Nor was Baldwin troubled with the industrial unrest which culminated in the General Strike during his first administration.
25. Troops in the Philippines have been put on full alert in anticipation of trouble during a planned general strike.
26. Jianquanzi - Luobaoquan active fault zone , general strike in NEE, is composed of 7 left - stepped , oblique - arranged active faults.
27. With output recovering, the prime minister, Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity's threat to call a general strike.
28. Following a general strike and calls for his resignation, the President was arrested on 26 March by fellow army officers.
29. The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
30. With French socialist Jean Jaurès, Luxemburg argued that European workers' parties should organize a general strike when war broke out.
31. In Auckland, however, there was a general strike from 8 to 22 November, involving Arbitrationist as well as Red Fed unions
32. In fact, the interviews were so casual that everyone was reassured that they would be released as soon as the general strike eased.
33. The general strike of 1926 and the increasing influence of Labour MPs at Westminster – “Bolshies” snorts Channon, who was returned as Conservative member for Southend in …
34. During a recent general strike, employees of all major trade unions Abstained. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases (Definition of Abstained from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's …
35. During the International Women's Year in 1975 Icelandic women attracted great attention when they organized a general strike to show how important women's undervalued work was.
36. The socialist Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) decided to initiate a general strike across the country, but it failed because the unions could only mobilize urban workers.
37. A general strike and mass demonstrations have proven to be effective tactics when fighting a Coup, which is why our friends at Choose Democracy spent weeks training thousands of people around the country in these methods.
38. TB looked at this, at those 35 identical granite houses lined up and identically spaced - just like in the camps - and thought, “This is so Seattle.” Seattle has always been a somewhat “Bolshie” town, general strike and all
39. The imprisonment of Mr García has already led to a general strike by the Andalusian fishing community and I believe that Portugal is trying to make an example of Mr García, making a simple fisherman, who has only committed this one offence, carry the can for a lack of political will.