| He has bombinated about his career in the Big Leagues twice, in The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two. |
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| Strikes by bricklayers have also accelerated the trend, as builders seek ways to ensure construction completion dates. |
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| Strikes by journalists on local papers in the north of England have spread from one title to another. |
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| Strikes have been put off until the end of February to give negotiators a chance to agree a deal. |
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| Strikes that crippled North Yorkshire last month are expected to be repeated as union chiefs urge council workers to reject latest pay offers. |
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| He is pretty much an equal co-star in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the third and funniest of the series. |
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| Strikes by coal miners, tax collectors and customs officials are also expected to take place over the next few weeks. |
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| Strikes by ships and entanglement in some types of fishing gear are the biggest threats to the endangered right whales. |
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| This year the lament and longing for the South, now standing so battered by Hurricane Katrina, strikes me with unusual poignancy. |
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| For an instant, his painted, red-nailed forefinger catches the light as it strikes middle C on his old, battered harmonium. |
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| Another rumor that has existed since before The empire Strikes Back was released. |
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| The strikes were due to take place on Thursday and Friday of this week and Monday and Tuesday of next. |
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| Frankly, though, this strikes me as some sort of bizarre battered spouse response. |
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| Strikes and flying pickets, mostly entirely unofficial, led to general strikes, defied the law, got dockers out of jail, put out the lights and brought down governments. |
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| Voters passed the Three Strikes Law as a response to several well-publicized horrors perpetrated by evil ex-cons who never should have been set free from prison. |
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| Ragged sheets of rain were visible in the distance, and pale lightning strikes forked against the clouds. |
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| In the last year, three general strikes called to protest against the president, protests in the streets, people killed, and one attempted coup. |
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| It strikes me as another telltale sign of the insidious colonization of our personal and social lives by the ethic of the algorithm. |
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| Almost 60 percent of California's three strikes cases involve nonviolent offenses in which the courts hand down sentences of 25 years to life. |
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| Most states with three strikes legislation confine it to serious violent crime. |
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| I see amending the three strikes law as a step towards healing and reconciling families and communities. |
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| But if there's a prisoner-rights issue that screams for redress, it's three strikes. |
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| It's hard to say whether it's a good or bad thing that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the three strikes law. |
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| The three strikes law made lying acceptable in some way and perhaps required her lie. |
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| California has the toughest and most vigorously enforced three strikes law in the nation. |
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| I also oppose the three strikes law and all other rigid sentencing regimes. |
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| California, which has the three strikes system, now spends more on its prison system than on education, say civil rights groups. |
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| During disputes, he and other government ministers have churned out statements that all but equate strikes with sedition. |
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| Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices. |
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| To quell resistance, air strikes and artillery barrages were called in, largely demolishing the town. |
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| A series of disruptive wildcat strikes created deep divisions between different groups of workers in the company. |
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| As always, what strikes one about French farce is its mix of mathematical precision and bizarre detail. |
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| Disaster strikes when he thins his pitch from the rough beside the 10th green all the way across the putting surface. |
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| In the presence of the household he strikes the forehead of the dead pope three times with a silver mallet, calling him by his baptismal name. |
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| The frequent hike in prices of petroleum products leads to strikes and bandhs, paralysing normal life and the general economy. |
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| And I have not even counted days lost due to strikes, hartals, bandhs, lockouts and the like. |
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| A father who switched on the early morning news to keep tabs on lightning strikes and bandhs and heated the water for my early morning bath. |
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| On a more domestic note, the old refrain, marry in haste, repent at leisure strikes a chord. |
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| The train drivers' union Aslef is also threatening to ballot for strikes in a separate dispute over pay. |
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| Ambulance workers in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to ballot for strikes over the implementation of a new pay deal. |
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| Newman's passion for abstruse matters of theology strikes Wilson as escapism or worse. |
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| Loosening up, she moves on to the pool, coasting like a ball bearing around its high rims, grabbing a little air when the fancy strikes her. |
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| Compared to the early struggles, the strikes of the 1890s manifested a significantly higher level of consciousness among the workers. |
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| It strikes me as a false premise to frame a law and order issue using moral terms regardless if they are in scare quotes or not. |
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| Industrialists struggling against labor unions often exploited the new immigrants, making them scabs during worker strikes. |
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| At this stage he cannot say if he will produce any more music, but if inspiration strikes, who knows. |
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| The union announced that its 270,000 members had backed strikes by 67 per cent which could mean stoppages at courts across the district. |
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| This story out of USA Today makes false the axiom that lightning never strikes the same place twice. |
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| Sun shines in the valley and its warmth strikes Lauren's face awaking her from sleep. |
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| As if spurred on by this, Peebles upped the ante, taking two consecutive strikes against the head. |
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| In May 1943 four strikes of Soviet aviation at the enemy airfields at the Kursk salient destroyed 500 aircraft. |
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| Land-component forces chosen for lethal strikes are often highly tailorable Marine expeditionary units. |
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| It had been attrited to such a point by air strikes that it was no longer a viable fighting unit. |
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| As soon as engineers repair the speed traps, the mystery attacker strikes again. |
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| Drawing on their activist roots, the refugees launched demonstrations and strikes, which the Marines met with attack dogs, batons and tanks. |
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| What immediately strikes you about the game is the vast amount of information and control available at your fingertips. |
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| But he blamed such strikes on terrorists and loyalists from the defunct regime. |
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| Among the new weapons under consideration are low-level radiation weapons specifically designed for pre-emptive strikes. |
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| Some explanations for extinctions and evolution include strikes by asteroids or comets. |
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| Justin strikes poses in silhouette behind the curtain, ending with a lovably cheesy two-thumbs-up gesture. |
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| His anti-corruption crusading, run-ins with management and police during strikes, and political ties made him a ripe target. |
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| Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers. |
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| The strikes continue today and bosses are warning claimants and job seekers to expect long queues. |
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| I may be a lone voice here, but it strikes me that the more people who come to live in the area, the more we will witness commuting to London. |
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| Between 1984 and 86, there was a total of 962 disputes, including strikes, stoppages or lockouts under the Labour government. |
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| Alberta's Public Service Employee Relations Act prohibits strikes and lockouts of workers in public services, including nurses. |
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| Attacks are defended with blocks, various kicks, punches and strikes, throws, and wrist and arm locks. |
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| The Attorney-General's contention, if correct, strikes at the root of this basic principle. |
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| The literal-minded insistence that all government rhetoric be entirely scrupulous strikes me, in view of the above, as weird. |
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| The court was given extensive powers to prevent strikes, arbitrate and enforce settlement of industrial disputes. |
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| It strikes the synovium, the thin layer of tissue lining the area of a joint where two bones meet. |
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| Predominantly her aircraft were used on strikes against enemy lines of communications, troop concentrations and industrial infrastructure. |
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| If Glasgow's research shows that a right-on, edgy image strikes a chord not only with visitors but also its citizens, then it could work. |
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| There's an old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but in the case of my wife, Annette, and me, it did. |
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| Shot in a straightforward style, the film strikes an unusual balance between seriousness and lightness. |
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| Milano strikes a balance between more serious scientific research and light-hearted self-examination. |
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| Singleton strikes the difficult balance between recapitulating stereotypes and ridiculing them in broad burlesque. |
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| There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation. |
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| It reflects a wider debate, fanned by bitterly hostile coverage of the tube strikes in much of the media. |
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| I then pulled out the pocket checklist for bird strikes, and my instructor called for a climb to 5,000 feet. |
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| He said recent air strikes had focused on air defence command and control centres, anti-aircraft guns and missile sites. |
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| These disputes of right involve matters relating to retrenchment, discrimination, and unlawful strikes. |
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| I guess it's something about the combination of low taxes and legal drugs that strikes their fancy. |
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| He also pointed out the likelihood of potential retaliation by terrorist groups in the face of US air strikes in Afghanistan. |
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| There were strikes and chaos and soon there was a civil war, and the surviving three thousand members begged the government to retake control. |
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| The air strikes caused a profound split inside leftist groups that could not decide which side they should support. |
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| Negative charge is generally carried to the surface by leakage currents and lightning strikes beneath clouds. |
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| When light energy strikes a shiny surface, the energy is reflected at a direct angle. |
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| This strikes me as a bit convoluted but he is lawyering and I do not know anything about this stuff. |
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| But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains. |
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| The plainclothes policewoman strikes up a conversation with a group of women suspects in the estate's launderette but does not say who she is. |
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| The RMT has already had six days of strikes, the most recent of them last Friday and Saturday. |
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| First of all what strikes a nature lover is that it is a green jungle island amidst an ocean of concrete jungle. |
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| The Irish Land League of 1879 renewed the campaign, organizing rent strikes and boycotts and resisting evictions. |
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| It strikes me that this version of the bicycle could be adapted to help people with ambulatory difficulties. |
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| Then it strikes me that perhaps, like an ambiguous picture, both can exist simultaneously and have their own truth. |
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| About success and failure, he remarks that he enjoys success and doesn't bother much when failure strikes. |
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| Long-time musical associate and labelmate to Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss strikes out on his own and brings some heavyweights with him. |
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| Our current regimented method of marching kids through a series of fixed time length classes strikes me as a hold-over from the factory era. |
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| In a nation of multitasking workaholics, insomnia strikes 127 million adults. |
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| For some reason, this strikes me as the reductio ad absurdum of the whole project. |
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| The taste of it on my tongue strikes a chord deep within me, the way that the smell of woodsmoke or Grandma's perfume does for some. |
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| I have written this article with a view to hopefully helping other people cope with Mud Fever when it strikes. |
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| A Pentagon spokesman said a coalition air reconnaissance patrol came under fire and called in air strikes. |
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| It's a warm and funny film which strikes exactly the right balance, neither patronising its subjects, nor treating them with kid gloves. |
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| The firefighters' strikes planned for this week were dramatically suspended last night so that fresh talks can be held over pay. |
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| There has been an enormous rise in workers' strikes, peasant rebellions and urban riots. |
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| This has seen members strike for two days in both February and April, and take part in a number of unofficial wildcat strikes. |
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| And at the time of writing we are seeing the first unofficial wildcat strikes in the civil service for 16 years! |
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| The 12-month dispute saw extensive industrial action, including wildcat strikes by teachers and walkouts by students. |
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| That sort of Carnival strikes me as innocent and wholesome compared to what's going on in Germany. |
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| A ray of hope appears in the form of Mary Burke, the daughter of a heart attack victim who strikes a chord with the troubled Pierce. |
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| That strikes a raw nerve with the chief executive at a time when he is hyper-sensitive to criticism. |
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| He lashes Tom across the face with a cowhide and strikes him several times, then asks Tom again if he will do it. |
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| The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion. |
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| In addition, they have potent raptorial appendages, with which they produce extremely fast and powerful strikes. |
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| It is also suffering from rampant inflation, resulting in strikes, protests and the collapse of business investments. |
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| He is admired by people with regard to his sporting career, but he also strikes me as a true gentleman! |
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| The Triple Alliance of transport workers, miners, and railwaymen was in existence by 1914 and had a strategy of sympathy strikes in place. |
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| The play strikes me as an attempt to recreate a winning formula, adhering rather too closely to the mould of its last show, Hatched. |
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| The image of the gun-toting red-ragger springs to mind when people remember the shearers' strikes. |
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| Economic and agency theory also predict that unions will encourage strikes despite the relatively well-off positions of their members. |
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| Anyway, we don't need a strong army, we just need a few destructive strikes before the Jovians are prepared. |
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| The main objective of air defense is to prevent casualties and losses among friendly forces from disabling air strikes. |
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| Now, it strikes me that a jobbing wedding-reception caricaturist requires two major attributes in order to achieve success. |
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| No longer do you need an array of tools such as a drill, a mortising jig for hinges, strikes, and bolt plate. |
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| They were dreary, low-paid and repetitive and gave rise to strikes for a good reason. |
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| The main thing that strikes me is the perfect balance, or relief as Stokowski called it, between the orchestra and piano. |
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| While I enjoyed the news-less interlude, too many strikes will weary public patience and risk handing viewers and listeners to the opposition. |
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| For quick strikes, you may want to attach an energy pack to continually power your weapons and jetpack. |
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| The liquid jet as it strikes the solid surface can cause localized erosion and surface pitting. |
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| The first thing that strikes you is the contrast between the quiet and loud noises. |
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| The drama of that event is so perfectly evoked you can feel the fear in the room and hear bones crunch as the executioner's axe strikes home. |
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| The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes. |
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| In the meantime, there were repeated air strikes on the city from US warplanes and helicopter gunships. |
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| We had said war clouds were hovering, but sometimes lightning strikes even if the weather is clear. |
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| It encountered losses from industrial action, strikes and absorbed a lot of resources. |
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| He sits again, pulls a book of matches out of his pocket, strikes one and holds it out toward me. |
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| We need to seriously discuss college occupations, mass protests, and walkouts and strikes to stop the war machine. |
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| Civil servants announced their campaign against an imposed pay deal with unofficial walkouts and will be balloting for strikes next month. |
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| Relations with management are so bad that as well as the official strikes, 25 porters walked out unofficially recently. |
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| It's still three strikes you're out and four balls for a walk but so much of the fun is gone. |
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| Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage. |
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| Despite Sellers's deep personal problems, The Pink Panther Strikes Again was well received critically. |
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| Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back, was then hired. |
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| Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. |
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| Strikes without formal union authorization are also known as wildcat strikes. |
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| We're high on skunk Barcelona snicklefritz and Lucky Strikes, and we speak loud English and laugh a lot. |
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| Paterson, 'A Managerialist Strikes Back', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. |
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| A new film detailing the events of the 1981 Hunger Strikes will get its first screenings at Irish film festivals in September. |
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| The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes ... is much greater than the average American appreciates. |
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| Paul Bowles put it that way in Let It Come Down, a title taken from a Shakespearean assassin just before he strikes. |
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| And late Friday night there were more strikes on outlying areas of the besieged city now mostly empty of civilians. |
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| After a string of consecutive strikes, a bowler has a higher percentage of scoring subsequent strikes, for instance. |
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| Republican senators who were briefed on the crisis in Iraq Thursday also were reluctant to support U.S. air strikes in Iraq. |
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| The question of whether English law strikes the correct balance between concerns of free speech and the protection of reputations may now be considered. |
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| On one night earlier this month, the coalition launched 30 strikes on the town. |
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| Jack shall not be liable for interruptions caused by strikes, riots, floods, acts of God, loss of communication, or by any event beyond his control. |
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| The union, which is seeking guarantees on job security and above inflation pay rises, has threatened a series of warning strikes if no deal is done on Thursday. |
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| This could be achieved by threatening from several directions and launching high-speed, rapier-like strikes at operational headquarters and communications centres. |
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| Mirrors, spherical or otherwise, operate on the principle that the angle of reflection of a ray of light equals the angle at which it strikes the mirror's surface. |
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| He also warned that cruise missile strikes on Hezbollah forces in Syria would invite a response. |
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| For military aircraft, windshields need further strengthening modifications, and some of the older aircraft are probably still vulnerable during bird strikes. |
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| There can be hundreds of sorties on a daily basis to deliver massed strikes with precision air-to-surface missiles without flying above enemy territory. |
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| For a start, it is set in Classical Roman times, in the reign of the Emperor Titus, and strikes me as being much heavier on recitative than Mozart's more famous works. |
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| The reason animators use familiar voices is that immediate connection the audience makes with a character whose speech strikes a recollective chord. |
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| Yet increasingly we are finding out that the state of our mind, emotions, and spirit have a significant impact on both our health and our recovery when illness strikes. |
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| The company is relying on the various trade unions and works councils to suppress opposition to the job cuts, which sparked protests in Germany and strikes in France in April. |
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| Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. |
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| In retirement I look forward to hedonistic self-indulgence in the form of reading whatever strikes my fancy, landscape gardening, golf, travel, research, and writing. |
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| And the thing that strikes me is how amateurish the whole thing seems. |
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| It strikes me as a good game for LARPing, which I don't usually enjoy. |
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| This strikes me as a pretty lax approach to national security. |
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| The cheaper option if illness, accident or redundancy strikes, is to get in touch with your bank or other lender and arrange to reschedule your loan repayments. |
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| Really, sortition strikes at the tension at the heart of elective representative democracy. |
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| He strikes out the lead-off man, then walks the next three batters. |
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| But as stimulus goes, the I-stimulus strikes me as a pretty narcissistic and ephemeral one. |
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| There were significant anti-government strikes and protests last year. |
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| A massive, official protest in June was followed by a wave of strikes and protests by workers, students, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist protesters. |
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| So to attack us for re-telling, for the first time anywhere in the world, James Leo Herlihy's truly great and bizarre love story strikes me as a bit rich. |
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| Thinking that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, one year after the incident administrators decided to place the figure back on his pedestal. |
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| It is a myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. |
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| For the sake of a few pounds this man has seriously injured an old woman and we are appealing for help in tracking him down before he strikes again. |
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| Last night detectives, deeply concerned at the level of violence used in each attack, issued an urgent appeal for help in catching the man before he strikes again. |
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| Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. |
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| When the mood strikes me, I can eat an embarrassingly large number of dillpickles or rollmops, even a bag of pretzels in a sitting, or more olives than I should. |
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| Connective aesthetics strikes at the root of this alienation by dissolving the mechanical division between self and the world that has prevailed during the modern epoch. |
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| I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization. |
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| The three strikes law should only apply exclusively to violent criminals. |
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| Cesium and rubidium lose their valence electrons especially easily when light strikes their polished surfaces and are photosensitive over the full visible spectrum. |
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| Whenever anyone says he's aristocratic he's always quick to repeat it in his diaries, which strikes me as an incredibly middle-class aspirational trait. |
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| Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam. |
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| The ludicrousness of the whole situation and the fact that everything is completely out of control suddenly strikes me and I start to laugh hysterically. |
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| Granted they both worked in a steam laundry in West Texas in the summer but the fact that they kept our house at a chilly 65 degrees now strikes me as a trifle extreme. |
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| Shortened in medical parlance to h. flu, it bears no relation to the viral infection influenza that strikes every winter. |
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| He strikes the ball around the table with great authority and confidence. |
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| If the mood strikes you, you are welcome to pick up a copy of our siddur and pray with us. |
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| The McCullen decision strikes down the Massachusetts law because it includes public streets and sidewalks. |
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| No, he kept saying, he did not agree to restore the U.N. sign-off for air strikes. |
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| Like its strange predecessor, the first kiss scene, this simulation nightmare strikes a false note. |
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| The provocation is likely to end any hesitation in Britain over launching strikes against ISIS in Iraq. |
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| This frustration and anger boiled over that year, one famous for strikes. |
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| And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang. |
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| Granderson said Bush conducted air strikes against Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia. |
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| One of the arguments for intervention arising from the Syria strikes relies on a bit of sophistry. |
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| One of them strikes up a relationship with the bank teller who opens their joint account, while the other two eventually tussle over loneliness and personal responsibility. |
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| In a shared pool, butterfly strikes me as plain bad manners. |
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| What people are really afraid of is something that has its own vocabulary and idiom because it strikes them dumb. |
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| Back then, the lower class, rather than sink meekly into its immiseration, periodically erupted in violent strikes and riots. |
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| It has steadfastly refused to release its own estimates of non-combatant deaths in drone strikes, figures that it says classified. |
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| On several occasions, Pakistani officials tipped off Maulvi Nazir and his men about impending drone strikes. |
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| About 300 school caretakers and cleaners employed by Jarvis in Huddersfield and Dewsbury, west Yorkshire, are set to ballot for strikes over pay and conditions. |
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| He did not indicate whether administration officials said if any decision on strikes had been made. |
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| In a series of strikes this week, here and in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia, several people were killed. |
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| But what strikes me as being more important right now even than our independence is our interdependence. |
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| But in July he joined the army backed government as the interim labor minister and has defended the breaking of the Suez strikes. |
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| The administration has not explained how the strikes accord with international law. |
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| The three strikes law is supposed to apply exclusively to violent criminals, and if it must stay on the books, it should still only apply to them. |
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| But the three strikes law is anything but narrowly tailored. |
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| The Supreme Court will rule on the three strikes law this term. |
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| The current three strikes law has also hung in there as long as it has because there has been no detectable swing in public sentiment toward changing the law. |
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| California already locks up more three strikes offenders than the other states that have similar repeat offender laws on their books put together. |
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| It is significant that the expression of public disapproval embodied in the Western Australian three strikes law is directed in practice so narrowly at youth offenders. |
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| That makes him eligible for life in prison under California's three strikes law and the prosecutor in the case is asking the judge to impose that life sentence. |
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| In each inning both teams bat, until three of the batters are declared out by either three strikes delivered by the pitcher, or a catch by a fielder. |
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| Lightning easily strikes many miles from the edge of the thunderstorm. |
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| The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy. |
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| Other ISIS positions were targeted by army air strikes in Tabaret al-Sakhaneh village along Khanaser-Atherya axis. |
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| For those not comfortable with sheet music, a system of tablature indicating button strikes and bellows direction provides an alternative. |
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| Europe's economies were recovering slowly, as unemployment and food shortages led to strikes and unrest in several nations. |
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| There were indications of some micrometeoroid orbital debris strikes on the sides of Orion, which was anticipated. |
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| The General Staff blocked the entry of Douhet's theory into doctrine, fearing revenge strikes against German civilians and cities. |
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| The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 banned sympathy strikes and mass picketing. |
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| The strikes had begun spreading in Scotland and West Yorkshire from the 13th. |
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| The depression of 1842 led to a wave of strikes, as workers responded to the wage cuts imposed by employers. |
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| Many strikes were painful events for both sides, the unions and the management. |
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| She sits up tall and strikes up her one-man band of sing-song sound. |
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| During the late 19th century, general strikes became an established aspect of the political process. |
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| Between 1892 and 1961, there were 20 major strikes, including 7 general strikes. |
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| The region has seen numerous general strikes, some with social aims, some with political aims. |
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| More strikes occurred in 1932 and 1936, with a strike in 1950 on the question of the return of Leopold III to the Belgian throne. |
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| This region was emblematic of the whole Sillon industriel in Wallonia and of the Belgian general strikes which often broke out in the Borinage. |
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| This general strike was one of the first general strikes in an industrial country. |
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| Long strikes were unsustainable as the miners had no organisation or finances to back them up. |
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| The Danish section started organising strikes and demonstrations for higher wages and social reforms. |
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| Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. |
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| The assessment of the strikes comes in real-time video from the aircraft. |
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| But when I get up at the plate, he's throwing BBs at me. He strikes me out twice. |
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| Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together? |
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| The guilt, the crime strikes first, and from it are abstracted the negations unguilt, innocence. |
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| Egypt is exploding with protests, sit-ins and strikes these days. |
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| No wonder the general public are angry when they learn they are actually bankrolling union officials orchestrating these strikes. |
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| This is a funny law, whereby the protection of the revolution's achievements is done through abolishment of strikes, demonstrations and protests. |
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| He also dismissed suggestions BA was building a war chest in case of summer strikes. |
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| They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth. |
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| And when trespassed against, he bides his time and strikes back by proxy. |
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| Comically, the boy strikes a pose of romantic Weltschmerz, insisting he is deeply unhappy and shall never marry. |
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| When a dart strikes the board, the section makes contact with a metal plate, telling the computer where the player has thrown. |
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| Sunday's airdrops followed weeks of US and coalition air strikes in and near Kobani, along the Syrian-Turkish border. |
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| Between 1936 and 1938, a series of labour disputes, strikes, and worker unrest spread throughout the French automobile industry. |
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| The commanders selected a course to impede the simulated WMD strikes on the Russian ships, the ministry said. |
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| Unison was also planning four weeks of work to rule action between the two strikes. |
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| The disruption from the work to rule in the CRB could be made worse if members back a programme of national pay strikes later this week. |
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| Alonely DJ strikes up along-distance friendship with someone claiming to be an abused teenager with Aids. |
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| Three books old, the first thing that strikes you about Amitabha Bagchi is the sheer familiarity you feel with his fiction. |
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| These unions therefore advocate a permanent solution to the circumstances of strikes, injunctions, and crossing other workers' picket lines. |
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| In Italy, general strikes had been both socially effective and politically unproductive. |
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| In Europe, general strikes were very common in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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| General strikes are characterised by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities. |
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| Historically, some employers have attempted to break union strikes by force. |
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| The Railway Labor Act bans strikes by United States airline and railroad employees except in narrowly defined circumstances. |
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| Since the government in such systems claims to represent the working class, it has been argued that unions and strikes were not necessary. |
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| In addition certain parts of the economy can be proclaimed 'essential services' in which case all strikes are illegal. |
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| Like student strikes, a hunger strike aims to worsen the public image of the target. |
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| Over the past decade, Western air strikes have too often ended up killing civilians and radicalising people further. |
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| Sympathy strikes may be undertaken by a union as an organization or by individual union members choosing not to cross a picket line. |
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| Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase. |
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| Disaster strikes during the first teleportation and Victor is lost, presumed dead. |
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| Williams struck again with an angled drive, but Le Fondre hit his stride with two carbon-copy strikes into the corner. |
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| Most strikes are undertaken by labor unions during collective bargaining as a last resort. |
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| Nevertheless, strikes remained very common, and coal miners took the lead in political organization. |
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| By 17 June, strikes were recorded in 317 locations involving approximately 400,000 workers. |
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| Three strikes laws in certain states impose harsh penalties on repeat offenders. |
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| Ahead of his statement the PKK issued a condemnation of the strikes. |
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| First, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, federal courts used injunctions to break strikes by unions. |
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| Every three or four years something strikes it ms funny and it chuckles arhythmically in my chest. |
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| This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics! |
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| Desertion rates within the German army began to increase, and civilian strikes drastically reduced war production. |
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| The heralds eventually acknowledge that he is Sir Gareth right as he strikes down Sir Gawain, his brother. |
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| In 1972, general strikes in Vigo and Ferrol cost the lives of Amador Rey and Daniel Niebla. |
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| The tensions of the massive strikes and protests led to the Shakee Massacre. |
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| Later in 1971, the MMM, backed by unions, called a series of strikes in the port which caused a state of emergency in the country. |
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| The assaults against the several islands were supported by naval bombardments and air strikes. |
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| And polentalike tamales can be grilled, along with the sardines, whenever hunger strikes. |
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| In 1976, he followed it with The Pink Panther Strikes Again. |
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| Dissatisfied with the economic conditions, as well as the amounts of crime and corruption in Ukraine, Ukrainians protested and organized strikes. |
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| Bird strikes, also referred as Avian ingestion when sucked into the plane's engine, commonly occur during takeoff and landing. |
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| When MS fatigue strikes, exercise, sleep, and prescription medication aren't the only rejuvenators. |
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| The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour. |
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| He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much! |
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