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A lot of us anticipated Disney would strike back and not allow its powers be taken away without some kind of response. – Richard Foglesong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was physically assaulted by one person. I was struck twice, both times hitting my shoulder with the second strike grazing my face, the rest of the protestors just ambushed and cornered me before I was able to move out with the help of campus police. – Riley Gaines	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s clear that he’s lost control of the country, there’s never been a general strike like this, which is shutting down the ports, the airport, the hospitals, schools. – Martin Indyk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Strikes of this kind are a tactical tool, they might be building towards a larger future action. I think a lot of activists are discovering the effectiveness of these strikes. Just a taste of a what a strike can feel like can light a fire under negotiations. I think we’re going to increasingly see these short strikes as a tool. – Todd Vachon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hesitate to say that this is a total transformation, we could see an open-ended strike of 350,000 Teamsters at UPS (UPS) later this year or at one of the Big Three automakers. But these [short, fixed duration strikes] are definitely becoming more common. – Johnnie Kallas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The less days of work you lose, the better, but make no mistake, three days of lost pay may not sound like a lot. But if you’re making $14,000 a year and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, a three-day strike is making a sacrifice. – Lester Garcia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are in a situation with inflation elevated and now a banking crisis on top of that, the Fed’s attempt to strike a delicate balance between price stability, employment and financial stability will require something to give. And that something is going to be right around 1.5 million jobs, if the Fed’s forecast is prescient for the [4.5%] unemployment rate. – Joe Brusuelas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing, no group will strike our troops with impunity. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are eagerly awaiting on a counter proposal and we are ready to put another compelling offer on the table to continue the dialogue, we believe that a strike is avoidable and should be avoided, considering the consequences that would have in our community. – Superintendent Alberto Carvalho	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all. – Max Arias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I respect the strike of the garbage collectors. – Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is part of this government’s agenda to give the ADF the best possible capability, to give it greater ability to provide long-range strike and keep any potential adversary at bay, this is how we promote peace and stability by putting question marks in any potential adversary’s mind. – Pat Conroy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
AHC is the worst disease I have ever worked with in terms of the level of stress, for both parents and physicians. Episodes can strike at any time, and it is not readily clear when an episode is going to be catastrophic and require a hospital visit or urgent intervention, they have to reconsider everything. – Kathryn Swoboda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The idea of individual freedom and the ability to make choices without external constraints has been the cornerstone of many democratic societies. However, the concept of liberty is not without its challenges, and it is essential to strike a balance between individual liberty and societal norms. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 1 year ago
If we had the opportunity to strike at a range of 300 kilometers, the Russian army would not be able to maintain defenses and would be forced to lose. Ukraine is ready to provide any guarantees that your weapons will not be involved in attacks on Russian territory. – Oleksii Reznikov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy. – Vadym Skibitsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ship strike and entanglement are real threats and they’re happening continuously, people are overlooking the obvious just because there’s some news going on about wind farms. – Paul Sieswerda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Georgia's election laws strike an appropriate balance between election security and voter convenience, we saw record voter turnout in 2022, extremely high voter turnout for a midterm election, at levels that prove claims of voter suppression are just as trumped up as claims of stolen elections. – Brad Raffensperger	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He has really wonderful primary nurses, they were in tears having to leave him because my baby suffered cardiac arrest two days before the strike happened, and so now I’m dealing with that plus the shortage of staff. Which is very scary. – Lora Ribas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are seeking a resolution [to the strike.] The impact is great. – Mount Sinai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have NICU infants being transferred to area hospitals today because of the strike notice, we are seeking a resolution. The impact is great. – Mount Sinai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents. – Benjamin Weingarten	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our message to the unions is to say ‘this is not a time to strike, this is a time to try and negotiate’. But in the absence of that, it is important for the government... to have contingency plans in place, we’re looking at the military, we’re looking at a specialist response force... a surge capacity. – Nadhim Zahawi	Found on Reuters 1 year ago

A lot of us anticipated Disney would strike back and not allow its powers be taken away without some kind of response.

– Richard Foglesong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was physically assaulted by one person. I was struck twice, both times hitting my shoulder with the second strike grazing my face, the rest of the protestors just ambushed and cornered me before I was able to move out with the help of campus police.

– Riley Gaines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s clear that he’s lost control of the country, there’s never been a general strike like this, which is shutting down the ports, the airport, the hospitals, schools.

– Martin Indyk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Strikes of this kind are a tactical tool, they might be building towards a larger future action. I think a lot of activists are discovering the effectiveness of these strikes. Just a taste of a what a strike can feel like can light a fire under negotiations. I think we’re going to increasingly see these short strikes as a tool.

– Todd Vachon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hesitate to say that this is a total transformation, we could see an open-ended strike of 350,000 Teamsters at UPS (UPS) later this year or at one of the Big Three automakers. But these [short, fixed duration strikes] are definitely becoming more common.

– Johnnie Kallas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The less days of work you lose, the better, but make no mistake, three days of lost pay may not sound like a lot. But if you’re making $14,000 a year and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, a three-day strike is making a sacrifice.

– Lester Garcia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are in a situation with inflation elevated and now a banking crisis on top of that, the Fed’s attempt to strike a delicate balance between price stability, employment and financial stability will require something to give. And that something is going to be right around 1.5 million jobs, if the Fed’s forecast is prescient for the [4.5%] unemployment rate.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing, no group will strike our troops with impunity.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are eagerly awaiting on a counter proposal and we are ready to put another compelling offer on the table to continue the dialogue, we believe that a strike is avoidable and should be avoided, considering the consequences that would have in our community.

– Superintendent Alberto Carvalho

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

– Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I respect the strike of the garbage collectors.

– Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is part of this government’s agenda to give the ADF the best possible capability, to give it greater ability to provide long-range strike and keep any potential adversary at bay, this is how we promote peace and stability by putting question marks in any potential adversary’s mind.

– Pat Conroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AHC is the worst disease I have ever worked with in terms of the level of stress, for both parents and physicians. Episodes can strike at any time, and it is not readily clear when an episode is going to be catastrophic and require a hospital visit or urgent intervention, they have to reconsider everything.

– Kathryn Swoboda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea of individual freedom and the ability to make choices without external constraints has been the cornerstone of many democratic societies. However, the concept of liberty is not without its challenges, and it is essential to strike a balance between individual liberty and societal norms.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
1 year ago

If we had the opportunity to strike at a range of 300 kilometers, the Russian army would not be able to maintain defenses and would be forced to lose. Ukraine is ready to provide any guarantees that your weapons will not be involved in attacks on Russian territory.

– Oleksii Reznikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to prepare a counteroffensive or offensive operation you need to destroy many installations, not only on the front line, but also deep behind, 100-150 kilometers behind the enemy lines, especially now, to form strong strike groupings we require tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, heavy weapons that would enable quick counteroffensive operations against the enemy.

– Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ship strike and entanglement are real threats and they’re happening continuously, people are overlooking the obvious just because there’s some news going on about wind farms.

– Paul Sieswerda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Georgia's election laws strike an appropriate balance between election security and voter convenience, we saw record voter turnout in 2022, extremely high voter turnout for a midterm election, at levels that prove claims of voter suppression are just as trumped up as claims of stolen elections.

– Brad Raffensperger

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He has really wonderful primary nurses, they were in tears having to leave him because my baby suffered cardiac arrest two days before the strike happened, and so now I’m dealing with that plus the shortage of staff. Which is very scary.

– Lora Ribas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are seeking a resolution [to the strike.] The impact is great.

– Mount Sinai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have NICU infants being transferred to area hospitals today because of the strike notice, we are seeking a resolution. The impact is great.

– Mount Sinai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

– Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our message to the unions is to say ‘this is not a time to strike, this is a time to try and negotiate’. But in the absence of that, it is important for the government... to have contingency plans in place, we’re looking at the military, we’re looking at a specialist response force... a surge capacity.

– Nadhim Zahawi

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

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