Sentences with phrase «during the strikes in»

«I have run into fans on the street who said they hated the game of baseball because of what we did to it [during the strike in 1994],» McGwire said last week.

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Then he went to a person he respected in the office of a client and was handed an idea: use the existing company vehicles to not just deliver packages during the strike, but also help Perfect Courier's clients get their people where they needed to be.

During the last round of contract negotiations in 2011, talks ended in a strike.

Asked if the process to carry out strikes had changed during the fighting in Mosul, Sofge said «not appreciably,» adding that the process did see «refinements» regarding Iraqi permission for airstrikes.

The regulators, however, struck several positive notes during the session, praising Bitcoin for spurring innovations in digital ledger technology.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.

The #DeleteUber hashtag initially trended after Uber lifted surge pricing around JFK Airport during a strike by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in December.

Both coming and going, spaceflight can threaten tourists» health, with potential dangers from higher gravitational forces during acceleration, and space motion sickness that strikes some people in low and zero - gravity.

Austrian and SWISS are using larger planes to carry passengers during the strike, while Lufthansa has reserved almost 4,000 hotel rooms in Frankfurt and Munich for stranded passengers.

Netflix description: «During the Great Depression, a stranger with a violent past poses as a preacher and rallies farmers to mount a strike in a rural Iowa community.»

Soon after the strikes in Syria ended today Russian news media claimed that 71 cruise missiles were intercepted during the strikes on Syria Friday night / Saturday morning.

In 1971, a year after the Women's Strike for Equality March — during which 50,000 women marched down New York City's Fifth Avenue demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies — Congress passed a resolution designating Aug. 26 as Women's Equality Day.

And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

It was during the first dot - com boom, and the list was a way to showcase the striking fortunes accumulated by the era's hotshots: Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Marc Andreessen («Really Young, Really Rich,» read our cover in 2000).

But the same could be said of the 197 pedestrians struck by cars and killed in Arizona in 2016, and the more than 40,000 people who died in car accidents in the U.S. during the same time period.

EDM was exploding, and yet, during live performances, star DJs couldn't leave their banks of computers and turntables; the best they could manage for onstage theatrics was to periodically throw their arms in the air to strike the much - mocked «Jesus pose.»

If inspiration strikes you at odd hours of the night, Oliver suggests writing the email, saving it in your drafts folder, and sending it during working hours.

The Obama administration declared during Operation Odyssey Lightning that Libya was an area of «active hostilities,» thus those strikes took place in what was essentially an active war zone.

As on many other issues, in the interview, Trump struck a more conciliatory and reasonable tone in dealing with Apple than he had during parts of the campaign.

Republicans last year struck down online privacy regulations issued during President Barack Obama's final months in office that would have given consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information.

It strikes me as at least possible that businesses launched during recessions are of a different nature than those launched otherwise, in that the entrepreneur presumably launched a business knowing it was during a recession.

«This policy intends to strike the careful balance between the goal of transportation availability with community expectations of affordability during disasters,» Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in the release.

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

With AI weapons in consideration, however, some nations might adopt a first - strike stance during conflicts to counter the advantages brought by artificial intelligence - powered defense systems.

During a flat market in which volatility may be average from a historical perspective, consider choosing a strike price for your put options that is approximately 1 - 5 % out of the money.

Two F / A -18 E Super Hornets from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 overfly with extended landing gear and hook (hence, in landing configuration) the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an air power demonstration taking place over the flattop as the it returns from an eight - month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

All that has to happen is for the asset in question to never rise above the strike price during the contract's time period.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.

If there's no significant progress during the third round of negotiations, starting Saturday in Ottawa, they say there's no chance a deal can be struck by year's end.

The United States and China had clashed on issues from cybersecurity to trade in the final years of the Obama administration, although they had struck a landmark climate deal during Barack Obama's 2014 visit to Beijing that served as a prelude to the Paris climate accord.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general sDuring the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general sduring the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

He served in Durham during the miners» strike in the 1980s and often joined them on marches.

«The quake damaged Washington National Cathedral and reminded many Episcopalians of the quakes that struck the Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand during the last year.»

This last fact was translated in the dramatic recession of the number of strikes during the «80s and in the stagnation or the decline of the salaries.

A convert to Catholicism after being a protestant missionary in Latin America, it was during his RCIA class that Leonard was struck by the profound importance of aiming for sainthood.

This attack bears a striking similarity to the attack in Nice, France earlier this year when 84 were killed during Bastille Day celebrations, a terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State.

During the height of the organizing drive — which continues — prominent Americans, including the late Robert F. Kennedy and Walter Reuther, came to march with strike leader César Chavez and his workers in Delano, California.

It is striking that each of these problems was also apparent in the German churches (and throughout Europe) during the Hitler years.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the students initiated a cycle of lectures under the rubric of «what they did not teach us at school.&raquIn the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the students initiated a cycle of lectures under the rubric of «what they did not teach us at school.&raquin Prague, the students initiated a cycle of lectures under the rubric of «what they did not teach us at school.»

That Patterson recognizes this in his second chapter, where he reflects on how the difficulties of the South during the «transitional period» led to the activities of lynch mobs, makes even more striking his disinclination to extend this objectivity to African - American men.

As I mentioned in my post, «2016 and the Risk of Birth,» in revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's Genesis Trilogy, I've been struck by how forthcoming the author is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

During a second attack which struck overnight, five suicide belt - wearing terrorists used a car to ram civilians in the seaside town of Cambrils.

The Roman Catholic Church led the way in theological revision during Vatican II with the document Nostra Aetate, which struck some of the worst statements of anti-Judaism from church teaching.

When Nick was struck with cancer in 1996, he had to suspend his column during his treatments, and since he was a freelancer here with no benefits, he would be losing his only source of income at a time when he needed it most.

Perhaps the most striking recognition of this superordinate sovereignty comes from the hand of Madison in 1785 during the debate on the bill establishing religious freedom in Virginia: «It such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

It's often struck me that there are intriguing parallels among four intensely Catholic nations that went all - in secular during the late - twentieth century: Québec, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland.

A striking description by Wilder Penfield of an experiment during a brain - operation may be relevant in this context (Penfield 1961):

«The Asian tsunami of 2004, the Haitian earthquake, the tornado that struck Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis during ELCA meetings on homosexuality — these were clearly acts of judgment from God upon sinful people.