Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

He was trembling, a strange feeling upon him, fully expecting some catastrophe to strike him dead on the spot.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

The unsatisfactory 1958-60 expansion, he said, was not due to inadequate growth forces inherent in our economy but rather to the adverse effect of inappropriate economic policies combined with retrenching decisions resulting from the steel 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 ''.

At times, Alcott offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

While not directly connected to the strike, Berkman was tied in for the assassination attempt.

The second strike was resolved after the province's labour minister, Mark Parent, appointed a mediator, on 1 November, to facilitate an agreement.

In May 1984 Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, was detained and Sakharov began a hunger strike, demanding permission for his wife to travel to the United States for heart surgery.

" The construction of a missile defense system was also feared to enable the US to attack with a nuclear first strike.

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

The 1994 baseball strike led to the cancellation of the World Series, and was not settled until the spring of 1995.

In 1981, a divisional series was held due to a split season caused by a players ' strike.

The NLDS was first played in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 postseason during another players ' strike.

The Division Series was implemented in 1981 as a result of a midseason strike, with the first place teams before the strike taking on the teams in first place after the strike.

The Division Series was implemented in 1981 as a result of a midseason strike with first place teams before the strike taking on the first place teams after.

For many years, the newspaper was controlled by many of the investors in United Shoe Machinery Co. After a newspaper strike in 1967, Herald-Traveler Corp. suspended the afternoon Traveler and absorbed the evening edition into the Herald to create the Boston Herald Traveler.

" Whether Johnson's description was entirely truthful or embellished is unclear, but it seems likely that Teach understood the value of appearances ; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies, than rely on bluster alone.

At the time of the strike he was chairman of the Stepney Borough Electricity Committee.

It was influenced not just by name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him " strikeout Casey ".

Had it not been for the strike that ended the season, they may have broken their own season attendance record, as they were on a pace to do just that.

Your opponent's shinai is either knocked down from above or swept up from below with a resulting strike just when his / her kamae is broken.

One mechanism by which high energy neutrons ionize atoms is to strike the nucleus of an atom and knock the atom out of a molecule, leaving one or more electrons behind as the chemical bond is broken.

According to another tradition, Richard consulted a seer in the city of Leicester before the battle who foretold that " where your spur should strike on the ride into battle, your head shall be broken on the return.

Four concrete paving bricks broken with a knife-hand strike.

During the 1947 royal tour of South Africa, Elizabeth's serene public behaviour was broken, exceptionally, when she rose from the royal car to strike an admirer with her umbrella because she had mistaken his enthusiasm for hostility.

The strike was broken, and sugar production declined steeply from 1976 to 1977.

In Belgium a general strike movement, broken off in one instance without damage to the organizing forces, eventually led to universal suffrage ; in Holland a general strike collapsed with disastrous consequences ; in Sweden, a general strike was conducted and terminated with disciplined order but did not attain the desired results.

A second strike in 1937 was broken in a similar fashion, with two striking workers shot and killed and the National Guard forced to intervene.

As a result, the National Guard was called in to guard the plant ; non-union workers were hired and the strike broken.

Although the courts eventually acquitted all union members charged with the bombing of the railroad station during the 1903-04 strike and awarded damages to those who had been deported, the strike and the union were broken in Cripple Creek ; similar measures were resorted to in Telluride, Colorado.

The strike was broken on New Year's Day, 1 January 1812, when the Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, sent a detachment of troops from Durham Castle to force a return to work.

The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers union that represented workers at the Homestead, Pennsylvania plant was, for many years, broken after a violent strike in 1892.

But after years of fixes to the badly specified and misbegotten House VI ( which had first broken the Franks ' budget then consumed their life savings ), Suzanne Frank was prompted to strike back with Peter Eisenman's House VI: The Client's Response, in which she admitted both the problems of the building, as much as its virtues.

( The 1981 season was broken into two halves due to the 1981 strike and all 1st half champions made it to the postseason ).

Thus, while CROM's right to strike was recognized, non-CROM strikes were broken up by the police or the army.

Simon was an energetic campaigner, making rapid movements to strike at those who had broken their faith with him-and there were many as local lords switched sides whenever the moment seemed propitious.

" With the support of the state militia, the owners regained control of the mines, and by midsummer the strike was broken ( although it was never officially terminated by the Federation ).

Over the following days, many were arrested, and the strike was effectively broken.

Authorities ordered out the National Guard elsewhere in the second week of the strike: Governor Green sent the Guard to Saylesville, Rhode Island after several thousand strikers and sympathizers trapped several hundred strikebreakers in a factory ; he subsequently declared martial law in the area on September 11, after picketers armed with rocks, flowerpots and broken headstones from a nearby cemetery battled troops armed with machine guns.