85 Verbs to Use for the Word strike

I heard the clock strike four times, in the March night.

I have seen the poor, half-paid type-setters strike for their altars, their sires, and more wages, and I have seen a troop of petticoats, with gal children inside them, trot into the type-setter's place, so that the miserable compositors were compelled to return and starve on four or five dollars a day.

I saw her tired eyes gazing into the dreariness of Oakley Street and felt a pang strike through me.

The lumber trust sought to break the strike of the loggers and destroy their organization.

The Socialist leaders, who saw in this awakening of a national conscience and of a militant Imperialist spirit a serious menace to their own predominance, were in a state of frenzy, and they attempted to organize a general strike as a protest against the Government.

Strike followed strike with varying success and the conditions of the loggers began perceptibly to improve.

Let me run the menagerie to-morrow, and I will have Mr. Lion, the walking delegate, declare this strike off.

It is believed that women were thus the means of the printers losing many strikes.

That means a strike and a general tie-up.

They have men fomenting strikes in the government shipyards and stirring up all kinds of labor troubles.

He was insured against loss, and his rash workmen, who had turned upon him so unexpectedly, had accidentally settled the strike and their own future by starting the fire during their drunken orgies.

You are invaluable in a strike, and you have often prevented strikes.

It may be said, "they did it to avoid strikes": twenty years ago they would have welcomed the strikes, fought them through and gained what selfish advantage was possible.

In the meantime, however, the Union is working on orthodox labour lines, and arrangements are practically completed for calling a national strike of unemployed to compel the Authorities to increase the amount of the grant by one hundred per cent.

This caused a general strike, and, in the confusion which ensued, a boy had the misfortune to sit or fall upon the queen's straw bonnet, which had been laid aside for her flowery crown.

Aint no marster gwine a-say to you, "Charlie, you's got to be back when de clock strikes nine.

" "How so?" "We got out a strike editionand the girls peddled it around town, and lots subscribed.

He had a knitted brow and pondering expression of face, was a man of the strictest integrity, refused to join the strike, and was turned out of the mill.

The Citizens' Committee, headed by Professor George Mead, followed with a statement, admitting the grievances and justifying the strike.

[Never let the member strike, never let the Order spare].

I had mentioned to Rajan earlier in Goa how the entire well-knit editorial team at WCT had quit en bloc in the face of a stubborn management vis-a-vis the workers' strike.

It was then the greatest strike in the history of the lumber industry occurred-the strike for the eight hour day.

Ambassador Dumba was forced to leave this country because of the capture of secret letters revealing plots to organise strikes in our munitions factories, to buy up orators to incite workmen to discontent, and to pay newspapers for advancing the German propaganda.

Postponing strikes.

SELEKMAN, BEN M. Postponing strikes.

85 Verbs to Use for the Word  strike