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 ".

Further student protests, including hunger strike and more barricades of Hamilton Hall and the Business School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, were aimed at convincing the university trustees to divest all of the university's investments in companies that were seen as active or tacit supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The studies reflect a common opinion when they argue that all disasters can be seen as being human-made, their reasoning being that human actions before the strike of the hazard can prevent it developing into a disaster.

The 1934 Philadelphia strike appears in two versions: one with a light motto " In God We Trust ", which is the same as that used on the 1932 strikings, and the other a heavy motto seen after the dies were reworked.

Before the race at the Kyalami race track in South Africa, Lauda was the organiser of the so called ‘ drivers ' strike ’; Lauda had seen that the new Super-License required the drivers to commit themselves to their present teams and realised that this could hinder a driver's negotiation position.

NUTS theory can be seen in the US adoption of a number of first strike weapons, such as the Trident II and Minuteman III nuclear missiles, which both have an extremely low circular error probable ( CEP ) of about 90 meters for the former and 120 meters for the latter.

Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen ”.

The Taft – Hartley Act was seen as a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.

While previously the contract work force was seen as " primitive " and " lack political consciousness ", the summer 1971 / 72 saw a general strike of 25 % of the entire working population ( 13, 000 people ), starting in Windhoek and Walvis Bay and soon spreading to Tsumeb and other mines.

In many ways, the Joint Strike Fighter is seen as a rebirth of the TFX project, in that it purports to satisfy the needs of three American Air arms ( as well as several foreign customers ), fulfilling the roles of strike fighter, carrier-launched fighter, V / STOL, and close air support ( and drawing many criticisms similar to those leveled against the TFX ).

If an insufficient twist rate is used, the bullet will begin to yaw and then tumble ; this is usually seen as " keyholing ", where bullets leave elongated holes in the target as they strike at an angle.

This can best be seen by the railway strike of 1903, in which Kuyper showed no mercy to the strikers and instead pushed several particularly harsh anti-strike laws through parliament.

Fremantle has seen many industrial conflicts, the most famous of which occurred in 1919 when rioting broke out during " the lumpers ' strike ", resulting in one death and many injuries.

Over the course of the run, John has dealt with a demon taking revenge on people involved in the Liverpool dockers ' strike gone insane and sought help from Shade, The Changing Man, after chopping off his own thumb, seen Phoebe die at the hands of Julian, and traveled to India to try to find a way of saving her.

It reported the plans of the Conservative opposition, led at the time by Margaret Thatcher, and included the steps that any subsequent Conservative government would have to take in order to avoid the fate of the 1970s Heath government, which was widely seen as having been brought down by the miners ' strike of 1974.

The refusal of some miners to support the strike was seen as a betrayal by those who did strike.

She stated that “ the child labor law is better enforced for one thing and there are more men at work than seen in the mills here .” In response to the strike, mill owners also divulged their side of the story.

The gangly, unsure youth is first seen at a baseball game, standing at bat for his team, the Knights, ready for yet another strike out.

On balance, the probability that a Hs 293 launched ( and seen as responding to operator guidance ) would actually strike a target ( or achieve a damage-inflicting near miss ) was about the same at Anzio as it was during Operation Avalanche at Salerno, Italy.

During this spring frenzy, hares can be seen " boxing ", where hares strike one another with their paws.

Within the framework of a system that has deprived the individual of power, and their individual basic human freedoms, the hunger strike can be seen as a weapon or form of resistance.

A lightning strike destroyed the temple on the mound that year, which was seen as a bad omen by the tribe.

It was the first new mine in the UK for decades and seen as a rejoinder to widespread concern that the British mining industry was effectively shutting down, particularly following the defeat of the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ).

There is no qualifying period for this, or any other working time right, because beyond the importance of the law in seeking to strike a balance between work and life, sufficient periods of rest and leisure are seen as a critical element of workers health and safety.