Sentences with phrase «by calling a strike»

On Feb. 4, the Elementary Teachers Association of West Chicago responded by calling a strike.

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In separate phone calls to British and Turkish leaders this week, Xi called for an investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the town of Douma by the Syrian government, days after the US and its allies struck three targets in Syria in retaliation.

According to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the gang targeted financial transfers and ATM networks from late 2013 by using a series of malware attacks called Anunak and Carbanak, before more recently adapting security - testing software called Cobalt Strike into heist - ready malware.

Ahead of the 48 - hour strike, opposition leaders have encouraged Venezuelans to stock up on food and other goods — a call echoed by the US embassy in Venezuela.

Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.

When investors buy call contracts, they are hoping the stock will rise above the strike price by more than the cost of the trade.

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent nearly 40,000 employees, such as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon's traditional wireline phone operations.

«By buying the 50 - strike calls you get a lot more leverage to the upside,» added the co-founder of Optimize Advisors.

Sacks was struck by scenes of a young Jobs — played by Ashton Kutcher — making call after call but unable to convince anyone to invest in his startup.

Air Canada was forced to cancel about 75 flights in April when a faction of pilots called in sick — a strike declared illegal by labour officials.

Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

Ironically, Carreyrou is not a Silicon Valley - focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake - up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever.

The strike was called by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that jointly represent employees with such jobs as customer services representatives and network technicians in Verizon Communications Inc's (VZ.N) traditional wireline phone operations.

The video conferences are run by the Pentagon, which oversees strikes in those countries, and participants do not hesitate to call out a challenge, pressing for the evidence behind accusations of ties to Al Qaeda.

Ryanair pilots called off plans to strike before Christmas, following a climbdown by the airline's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary, who on Dec. 15 agreed to recognise trade unions for the first time.

Over the weekend, in a debate on local television, Ms. Lesko called for an investigation into the claims of sexual misconduct by Mr. Trump, a striking statement from a candidate who had otherwise praised the president.

In news reported Thursday (Jan. 25) by the Denver Business Journal, eCommerce giant Amazon has struck a deal with Colorado - based call center operator...

This is what made Google's low - key announcement of its latest plans for messaging on Android phones — an exclusive with The Verge about what it calls Chat — so striking: the company is introducing an open alternative to products like iMessage and WhatsApp, but only as a last resort, and the effort is being pilloried by critics to boot; Walt Mossberg was representative:

At the time of writing last month I proposed rolling the covered calls on CVX by closing the existing position (the $ 105 strike at $.15 or the $ 110 at $.05) and selling a July 105 call for $.93 or a July 100 call for $ 2.98.

Trump previously told Reuters in an interview in April 2017 that the pact was «unacceptable,» calling it a «horrible deal» struck by his 2016 Democratic presidential election opponent, Hillary Clinton, who as secretary of state promoted the final version before it was approved by Congress in 2011.

Let's say you buy a call option, which gives you the right to purchase Apple at a strike price of $ 500 per share by the end of the month.

«The signal is based on new highs and new lows, and is cheerfully called a Hindenburg (the actual name given to it by Kennedy Gammage is the «Hindenburg Omen» but that strikes me as far too, well, ominous, because it's certainly not a sufficient condition for a market decline).

Elizabeth Warren responded to the president's «Pocahontas» poke by calling it «racist» and sending out a fundraising appeal pleading with donors to strike back at a «bully.»

A long - term - oriented value investor is a batter in a game where no balls or strikes are called, allowing dozens, even hundreds, of pitches to go by, including many at which other batters would swing.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

Strike organizers called for an end to the walkout Thursday after a dramatic all - night legislative session resulted in a 20 percent pay raise by 2020.

If the underlying stock rises above the strike price any time before expiration, even by a penny, the stock will most likely be «called away» from you.

He works, at the beginning of the novel, at a Chicago bookstore, but he can't shake his calling; strangers will unload their anxieties on them, struck by a supernatural confessional urge.

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

Now we are instructed and nourished by the striking affirmation about «the God in whom he [Abraham] believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.»

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Whatever balance may be struck in these areas of mixed secular and religious services funded by tax money, the mixture is inherently unstable and will tend to move in one direction or the other, usually toward increased responsiveness to broader interests than those of the sponsoring church (which is often called «secularization»)-- a process seen in church - related colleges and hospitals even without tax funding, which merely makes it happen quicker and sometimes with the force of law.

That was followed by their global hit «Viva La Vida» which is full of Christian symbolism as it references the bells of Jerusalem, missionaries in a foreign field, but also the cryptic line «I know St Peter won't call my name» which has always struck me as challenging.

The generalized aim to spread the love of God and neighbor is too vague.12 The metaphor should also provide a reference by which the minister can strike a satisfying balance between what the congregation wants of the minister and what the minister needs in order to satisfy a sense of calling.

When I did, I was excited by its riches and struck by the many parallels with the approach that I was by then calling Growth Counseling.

This one seems to me, for people who profess and call themselves Christians and who are to some degree influenced by Christian ideas and symbols, the most striking and terrible.

First, you write on your own blog that you are disappointed in city of Bethlehem, «struck by the ugliness of the place... and the rudeness of the monks» and «resonate» with Bethlehem being called a «grand comedy» ``??? And then, you rush over here to discuss David's hyperbole and histrionics (that is, theatrical exaggeration)???

Professor Coe had a number of persons of this class among his seventy - seven subjects, and they almost all, when tested by hypnotism, proved to belong to a subclass which he calls «spontaneous,» that is, fertile in self - suggestions, as distinguished from a «passive» subclass, to which most of the subjects of striking transformation belonged.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

Thomas, incidentally, was called Clang by his teammates; they told me his fingers were made of metal, and «clang» was the sound the ball made when it struck them and bounced off.

Hahaha at times I wonder about this thing in football called loyalty.So imagine a world where all players were loyal to their clubs till the end of time.If that were to happen many so called top clubs wouldnt have top players.He left for the right reasons and I wish him all the best.If Arsene wants to go for him he should.Every player is a traitor as long as he wants to move but the club does nt want to sell or every club is a traitor to a player who wanted to stay but the club wanted to ship him out by force.This is life so deal with.I'd take him in a heartbeat because to me am sick and tired of being sick and tired of watching this awful and terrible striking force.Nonsense!!!!

He virtually ignores the inside pitch, knowing the umpire is not likely to call one a strike and the pitcher doesn't want to risk inciting a brawl or give up a home run by throwing one.

And the striker bought to replace Welbeck will go straight into the treatment room where he will stay until called upon in the champions league final to score the winning goal after Giroud and Walcott are strangely substituted by Wenger... when he is struck down by a fit of realization that Arsenal are actually going to win something worthwhile....

See, the strike zone isn't a judgment call, but rather a specific area defined by the MLB rule book.

And to be honest, I think that a lot of the best players in the world could probably be called a little bit arrogant or difficult to deal with, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and many more, so the so - called revelations about the Arsenal striker revealed by our former right back Lee Dixon in a Metro report this week strike me as not very revealing or particularly important.

Cabaye's stinging shot and Connor Wickham's header were both kept out by the Argentine, who was called upon again when he got a fingertip to a Wilfried Zaha strike to divert it around the post.

That said, I've been issued a strike by the Bruins Nation team for (apparently) calling bruinbaskets an idiot.

Hell, after the should - have - been strike out / throw out double play yesterday, Fran turned and practically grabbed de Jesus by the shoulders to presumably express disdain for the call.

Some have called his strike the best goal seen at Selhurst Park since another prodigious English talent made a name for himself by scoring for the away side.