How to Use strike against in a Sentence

strike against

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• But Fain has repeatedly said the union is prepared to strike any automaker that hasn’t reached a deal come September 15, even if that means the first simultaneous strike against all three.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 6 Sep. 2023
• For some Israelis, that scenario is reason enough to consider a far-reaching strike against Hezbollah—and to argue that such an attack should have launched even before October 7th.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Popular on Variety Ortega’s comments drew backlash from film and TV writers, who went on strike against the studios two months later.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024