"disastrous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Chastened by a disastrous strike in 1984, he built on an earlier coalition that had been forged by the union to produce dramatic benefits for home health-care workers.
- The delegates were motivated to form a larger federation because of the recent disastrous strike in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
- The American Miners' Association began to fail due to disastrous strikes and internal dissensions during the period 1867-1868, and ceased to exist by 1869.
- For years unions were so discouraged by several disastrous strikes, most notably the Caterpillar and the air controllers' strikes, that they had generally shunned large-scale walkouts.
- But he was struck by the plight of the controllers, many of whom he feels were duped into a disastrous strike.
- Overall attendance at games had increased nearly every season in recent years, after plummeting by 20 percent in the aftermath of a disastrous 234-day strike in 1994-95.
- In a 1998 interview with ESPN, he abandoned that stance in commenting on the disastrous 50-day strike in 1981.
- This resulted in a disastrous strike in early 1989, and the company's network was paralysed for weeks on end.
- Israeli military officers said their strikes had been scaled down in the aftermath of Thursday's disastrous strike against a United Nations base packed with refugees.
- In Lucifer's Hammer, the world is thrown into total chaos by the disastrous strike of a comet.
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