8 sentences with 'strikes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word strikes and other words derived from it.
• « When lightning strikes a tree, the discharge causes the sap to boil instantly, and so violently, that the tree bursts. »
• « Lightning usually strikes at the highest point, which is the shortest path to the ground. In the open, that point is your head, so try to stay low. »
• « After the first war, a huge wave of strikes hit Italy and many poor rural Italians seized land from the semi-feudal landowners who still dominated rural society. »
• « Days later, Khrushchev threatened nuclear strikes if the French, Israeli and British forces did not withdraw. Cowed, the Israeli, French and British forces withdrew. »
• « A group of British Marxist scholars, many of whom were immigrants or the children of immigrants, described this phenomenon as "empire strikes back": having taken over most of the world's territory by force, Europeans were left with a legacy of racial and cultural diversity that many of them did not want. In turn, the universalist aspirations of "Western Civilisation" were challenged as never before. »
• « The French public sympathised with the students at first, especially since it was well known that French schools and universities were highly authoritarian and often unjust, but as the strikes and occupations dragged on, public opinion turned away from the uprisings. »
• « Similar strikes occurred in Lowell and other mill towns such as Dover, New Hampshire, where women employed by the Cocheco Manufacturing Company walked off the job in December 1828 after their wages were reduced. »
• « Although strikes were rarely successful and workers were often forced to accept reduced wages and increased hours, work stoppages as a form of labour protest represented the beginnings of the labour movement in the United States. »