How to Use strike against in a Sentence

strike against

noun
  • That’s another win for Europe, and a strike against the U.K.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 22 July 2024
  • In any case, that’s a second strike against slow pitches.
    WIRED, 16 June 2023
  • This design isn’t a major strike against it, but something to be aware of.
    Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The labor action marks the first time actors have gone on strike against the film and television studios in 43 years.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The surge in union interest follows the UAW's strike against the Big 3 automakers last fall, which led to record contracts.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Again, the strike against automakers wasn't the only labor dispute in town.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The actors union has not been on strike against television shows and movie productions since 1980.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • Last week, the union finally called a strike against the 10 major video game companies involved.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • As the strike against the Big Three reaches its sixth week, layoffs continue at the Detroit automakers.
    Sara Powers, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The video shows the initial explosion of the strike against the munitions facility.
    Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Most prominently, the United Auto Workers Union called a strike against the three largest automakers in the country.
    Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
  • After the six-week strike against all three Detroit automakers last fall, each company signed a new contract with the UAW.
    Tom Krisher, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In May 2019, Brady was recruited by Kimmel to strike against his frenemy.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The trampling of the Queen’s reputation was both a democratic strike against the monarchy and a form of vicious misogyny.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That will have the virtue of sparing Israelis and Palestinians alike, as Israel will have no need either to quarantine Gaza or strike against it.
    Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Iran was launching a massive strike against an airbase near the family's village.
    Majd Al-Waheidi, NPR, 5 May 2024
  • That’s exactly why Democrats and the broad left should launch a preemptive strike against his lionization.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Peacock noted that all work on the show was completed in March, before writers went on strike against studios and streamers.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
  • This is a departure from last year’s strike against the union’s film and TV contracts, which prevented actors from discussing any of their work under that agreement.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • Wednesday’s strike against the munitions depot in Syria was the second time the U.S. conducted operations against such groups in the last two weeks.
    Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Writers Guild of America’s strike against the major media companies began on May 2.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Stellantis plant that laid him off in March had agreed to resume production and rehire its workers to help end a nationwide strike against the company.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Screenwriters, joined later by actors, have been on strike against television and film studios since May.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The endorsement came just four months after Biden joined auto workers on a picket line in Michigan in their strike against the nation’s three largest automakers.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The tentative agreements, which must be ratified by union members at each of the respective carmakers, could end a strike against the Big 3 that began last month.
    Mary Kathryn Burke, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In this case, Kill Bill was distributed by Miramax, a subsidiary of Disney, which is among one of the major studios actors remain on strike against.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Unifor, the union that represents autoworkers in Canada, is preparing to go on strike against Ford on Monday night.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Advertisement The last time actors went on strike against the studios was in 1980 in a three-month walkout over profits from home videocassettes and pay television.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The strike against Detroit automakers could account for some of the decline because striking workers aren’t counted on payrolls.
    David Harrison, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The honors followed a successful six-week strike against the big three automakers, Fain can’t go anywhere in Detroit without being greeted and asked to pose for a photo.
    Ted Reed, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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