He found that the greatest number of large-scale strikes broke out when the presidents were known for their populist and pro-worker policies.

During the economic depression of the early 1890s, large-scale strikes in various colonies were met with governments mobilising and/or threatening to use militia against strikers.

Administration officials continued to issue threats today as ground and air forces moved toward the region in preparation for a possible large-scale strike against Iraq.

Both our Arab sources and Mossad feel that it's a very large-scale strike.

The pact is the latest in a series of state-sponsored agreements that have helped prevent large-scale strikes in Ireland since the 1980's.

The demands led to demonstrations and large-scale strikes in both industry and agriculture throughout Finland.

In Germany, the coal miners demonstrated their militancy by large-scale strikes in 1889, 1905 and 1912.

The longer you are here, the greater the likelihood you will be involved in a large-scale strike.

Domestically, large-scale strikes broke out at Renault factories in April 1947.

His first action was to call out the army to suppress large-scale strikes in 1907.