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strike and is
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.
But once the strike trend hits hoosegows, there is no telling how far it may go.
The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.
No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.
Thus far, the cases which have come before the courts have involved only the issue of referral where the job is vacant due to a strike -- condition ( 1 ) in the Regulation of the Secretary.
In the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere.
It is now disclosed that the taxpayer not only pays for high wages, but he pays the employers' strike expenses when the latter undertakes to fight a strike.
In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.
Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.
When the resistance is suddenly removed without warning, the patient's arm may swing up and even strike themselves.
For example, in sound recording, fluctuations in air pressure ( that is to say, sound ) strike the diaphragm of a microphone which induces corresponding fluctuations in the current produced by a coil in an electromagnetic microphone, or the voltage produced by a condensor microphone.
A person is guilty of this offence if he unlawfully offers or attempts, with force or violence, to strike, beat, wound, or do bodily harm to, another.
The " false head " effect is further reinforced by the bugs ' habit of walking backwards when it detects movement nearby, so as to misdirect predators to strike at its rear, rather than at its actual head.
* 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike ; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i. e. non harming or nonviolence.

strike and line
The AWOC has been able to employ the traditional weapons of labor -- the strike and the picket line -- with considerable success, particularly in the area of wages.
In either case, to print a line, precisely timed hammers strike against the back of the paper at the exact moment that the correct character to be printed is passing in front of the paper.
If light consisted strictly of ordinary or classical particles, and these particles were fired in a straight line through a slit and allowed to strike a screen on the other side, we would expect to see a pattern corresponding to the size and shape of the slit.
Many African Americans, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line to break the strike ; thus adding a racially charged tone to the conflict.
* Pitch, or rake, in geology, the angle between a line and the strike of the plane on which it was found
It is possible that a successful serve would strike the sidewall before the short line, and land on the floor after the short line.
They protect customer wiring, equipment, and personnel from any transient energy on the line, such as from a lightning strike to a telephone pole.
The Zoo line was Melbourne's last horse tram and the only line still in operation at the formation of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board ( MMTB ), but it was destroyed by fire during the 1923 police strike.
With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on ; he visited La Beauce ( for La Terre ), Sedan, Ardennes ( for La Débâcle ) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre ( when researching La Bête humaine ).
To cut hardware costs, some manufacturers merely used a double strike ( doubly printing each line ) to increase the printed text's boldness, resulting in bolder but still jagged text.
Both line matrix and serial dot matrix printers, use pins to strike against the inked ribbon, making dots on the paper and forming the desired characters.
The top of the strike zone is defined in the official rules as a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants.
The bottom of the strike zone is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap.
Crouching lower meant lowering their line of vision, and caused the boundaries of the strike zone to sink lower.
The employer may, on the other hand, allow less senior employees who crossed the picket line to keep the jobs they were given after crossing the line, even if the seniority rules in effect before the strike would have required the employer to reassign their jobs to returning strikers.
Police succeeded in breaking the picket line, but their actions created a spontaneous general strike throughout the city.
Rivers and Zinn were among a group of faculty members who in 1979 defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.
The Governor has the power to veto any law that is passed by the Assembly, including a line item veto, which can be used to strike certain portions of appropriations bills.
On July 25, a general strike was called in northeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ( the line that ran through Plymouth ).
" Lew Wallace's division was 5 miles ( 8 km ) downstream ( north ) at Crump's Landing, a position intended to prevent the placement of Confederate river batteries and to strike out at the railroad line at Bethel Station.

strike and intersection
At 8: 15, local radar indicated a hook echo and a tornado warning was issued for Lubbock and Crosby counties, and the first tornado to strike the city touched down seven miles south of Lubbock Municipal Airport, near the intersection of Quirt Avenue and Broadway.
A strike line is the intersection of a horizontal plane with the observed planar feature ( and therefore a horizontal line ), and the strike angle is the bearing of this line ( that is, relative to geographic north or from magnetic north ).

strike and between
Although the Nebel stream lay between Fugger's and Marsin's squadrons, the French were forced to change front to meet this new threat, thus forestalling the chance for Marsin to strike at Marlborough's infantry.
Typical subjects include mining, raising and droving cattle, sheep shearing, wanderings, war stories, the 1891 Australian shearers ' strike, class conflicts between the landless working class and the squatters ( landowners ), and outlaws such as Ned Kelly, as well as love interests and more modern fare such as trucking.
On a positive note, the home run chase between Sosa, McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr. helped professional baseball to bring in a new crop of fans as well as bringing back some fans who had been disillusioned by the 1994 strike.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
The air pressure inside the bulb needs to strike a balance between too low and too high.
* To strike a balance between private interests of banks and the centralized responsibility of government
The decisive cleavage between the two guards broke out during the general strike, when the radical elements of the Red Guards and Worker's Security Guards executed several political opponents in the main cities of southern Finland, and the first armed clashes between Civil Guards and Workers ' Guards broke out, with 34 reported casualties.
The first victim of non-war violence between the Finns, an agricultural worker, died at the beginning of August 1917 at Ypäjä, during a local strike.
The shape is chosen to strike a balance between cost, hydrostatic considerations ( accommodation, load carrying and stability ), hydrodynamics ( speed, power requirements, and motion and behavior in a seaway ) and special considerations for the ship's role, such as the rounded bow of an icebreaker or the flat bottom of a landing craft.
A 1981 player strike ran between June 12 and August 10.
Second, the choice of countermeasures ( controls ) used to manage risks must strike a balance between productivity, cost, effectiveness of the countermeasure, and the value of the informational asset being protected.
* 1984 – A major clash between about 5, 000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners ' strike.
However, it appeared to strike a happy medium between simplicity and flexibility, and was rapidly adopted for many other uses.
Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.
: Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial, but in Iowa, where the employees of Consolidation Coal Company ( Iowa ) refused to join the strike, armed confrontation between strikers and strike breakers took on racial overtones because the majority of Consolidation's employees were African American.
Generally it is easier to record strike and dip information of planar structures in dip / dip direction format as this will match all the other structural information you may be recording about folds, lineations, etc., although there is an advantage to using different formats that discriminate between planar and linear data.
* Bird strike, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft
Surrealists believe that non-Western cultures also provide a continued source of inspiration for Surrealist activity because some may strike up a better balance between instrumental reason and imagination in flight than Western culture.
The injunction ultimately succeeded in ending the strike ; however, tensions remained high between railroad workers and company men for years.
More recently, IWW members were involved in the Liverpool dockers ' strike that took place between 1995 and 1998, and numerous other events and struggles throughout the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), including the successful unionising of several workplaces, such as support workers for the Scottish Socialist Party.

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