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

While it may seem like a break time or a dance, the chamada is actually both a trap and a test, as the caller is just watching to see if the opponent will let his guard down so she can perform a takedown or a strike.

* 1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before.

The use of simple tools dates to about 2, 400, 000 BCE when various shaped stones were used to strike wood, bone, or other stones to break them apart and shape them.

As his forces neared the castle, Philip, who had been unable to break through, decided to strike camp.

In Korean, tae ( 태, ) means " to strike or break with foot "; kwon ( 권, ) means " to strike or break with fist "; and do ( 도, ) means " way ", " method ", or " path ".

Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty convinced Judge James H. Wilkerson to issue a broad sweeping injunction to break up the strike.

** Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina.

* November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners ' strike.

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.

The Goths break out of their containment area along the Danube and strike south towards the low-lying fertile region near Marcianople ( Bulgaria ).

When the ARU struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over pay cuts, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike.

Debs tried to persuade the Union members who worked on the railways that the boycott was too risky, given the hostility of both the railways and the federal government, the weakness of the Union, and the possibility that other unions would break the strike.

The entrance of the Army was enough to break the strike ; 13 strikers were killed, and thousands were blacklisted.

Barbed wire obstacles in front of the German positions would require a lot more to break through and any shells that happened to strike the wire had merely tangled it more, making it even more dangerous.

On 26 March, the leaders of the OAS proclaimed a general strike in Algiers and called for the European settlers to come to Bab el-Oued in order to break the blockade by military forces loyal to de Gaulle and the Republic.

Stray bullets strike and break passenger windows wide open, causing explosive decompression sucking three passengers and Demou out of the plane.

It also afforded him an opportunity, through the agency of Theodwin, a cardinal ever-vigilant for Crusade supporters, to strike up a correspondence with Conrad III of Germany in an effort to break his alliance with Manuel I Comnenus.

On December 1, 400 members of the city's police force were employed to break the strike.

In 1989, Ansett Transport Ltd. used its influence and investment money in America West Airlines, to try to break a pilots strike in Australia.

Efforts to break the strike resulted in the deaths of at least 35, and perhaps hundreds, of African American workers at the hands of white paramilitary members.

William Sr. and Elizabeth ’ s second oldest won, Robert, and his wife Elizabeth Coffey, were the first top break away from the tight family unit and strike out on their own.

Suppose in the above example that the market value of the land being leased was actually 1, 200 a month, but the 1, 000 per month rate represented a break given to the tenant by the landlord.

Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

Brooks took a brief break from retirement early in 2005 to perform for several charity causes.

His army invaded Italy from the north and resoundingly defeated the Roman army in several battles, but never achieved the ultimate goal of causing a political break between Rome and its allies.

This was one of several contributing factors in ending the covert relationship that the Italian Communist Party had with the KGB culminating with a total break in 1979.

The make rating may be several times larger than the continuous rating, which is itself larger than the break rating.

The feathers are brittle ; shuttlecocks break easily and often need to be replaced several times during a game.

Finally, the temperature gets high enough that any nucleus can be partially broken down, most commonly releasing an alpha particle ( helium nucleus ) which immediately fuses with another nucleus, so that several nuclei are effectively rearranged into a smaller number of heavier nuclei, with net release of energy because the addition of fragments to nuclei exceeds the energy required to break them off the parent nuclei.

He regularly attacked corporations and used recently created anti-trust laws to attempt to break several large businesses.

Colossus was able to break in a matter of hours messages that had previously taken several weeks ; it was also much more reliable.

** Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.

** Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill 7 French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.

After Cen Peng is unable to break through, he constructs several " castle ships " with high ramparts and ramming vessels known as " colliding swoopers ", which break through Gongsun's lines and allow Cen to quell his rebellion.

* December 25 – In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry ; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Husars, despite their capitulation to Austrian officers.

Despite several break up stories in the press Williams and Field have been spotted together many times.

Inverse multiplexing ( IMUX ) has the opposite aim as multiplexing, namely to break one data stream into several streams, transfer them simultaneously over several communication channels, and recreate the original data stream.

After completing production on the fifth episode, " High Octane ", the cast and crew broke for Christmas break, expecting to return in several weeks ' time to complete the ordered run of episodes.

It is advantageous to several optimization passes to break M up into two blocks M < sub > pre </ sub > and M < sub > loop </ sub >.

After several years as a television screenwriter, Ball revived the idea in 1997 when attempting to break into the film industry.

He also causes several problems for Dreyfus, like usual, but this time by accidentally setting off his security system repeatedly ; special unit officers would break in to detain anyone in the room, and he had the password to call them off.

The English king, Edward I attempted to break the engagement several times for political advantage, and only after he died in 1307 did the wedding proceed.

According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

Much of the Grand Canal south of the Yellow River was ruined for several years after 1128, when Du Chong decided to break the dykes and dams holding back the waters of the Yellow River in order to decimate the oncoming Jurchen invaders.

Waves breaking over the ship damaged several windows and the crew reported seeing portions of the concrete break wall peeling off as the waves struck it.