Search results for "General strike" - New World Encyclopedia
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- war against Japan led in 1905 to a general strike in Finland and revolutionary ... had failed, the socialists initiated a general strike on November 14–19, ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- deeply humiliated by their defeat, it was General Lee's conduct at such ... Lee in his rear. The remaining corps would strike Lee's front through ...21 KB (3,314 words) - 11:37, 20 September 2023
- which it would have to deal with the General Strike and miners’ strike ... industry (i.e. the issues behind the General Strike). He also convened a ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- to Geneva, Switzerland as a Women’s Strike for Peace delegate in order ... (in support of the sanitation worker’s strike.) An excerpt of the speech ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- Eigi skal höggva!—"Don't strike!" ==Works== ... other forms of European poetry do, and in general rhyme plays a very minor role. ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- coup in May, 1981. The following year, General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ... election held under President Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- He led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election ... In the House of Lords in the 1980s, he praised the miners then on ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- divine principles. Hence Shariah in general is considered divine, but ... The Arabic word daraba not only means to hit, strike or beat, daraba ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- In 1943, following a three-year stint as Consul General to Mexico ... repression of a Communist-led miners' strike in October 1947, in which ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- force of 1,200 Oglala and Cheyenne against General George Crooks on June 17 ... to take his sick wife to her parents, General George Crook ordered him ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- remaining EATUC officers called for a general strike that paralyzed Nairobi ... Early in 1954 the KFRTU undermined a general strike that was called by the ...44 KB (6,886 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- came to be applied to stone coffins in general. The American Heritage® ... a mounted hunter with his sword raised to strike a leaping lion, and hunter ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War ... Winfield was named after Winfield Scott, a prominent general in the ...38 KB (5,623 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- commanders. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay, famously described ... Also at Lisbon, the post of Secretary General of NATO as the organization ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- article] in the Asia Times quoting the General's estimate. An Indian ... asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg7_14 Indian general praises Pakistani valour ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 2023
- of the twentieth century. He won three general elections although always ... the Ulster Workers' Council general strike in 1974 in order to destabilize ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- On July 31, 2022, al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in ... was Azzam Pasha, the founding secretary-general of the Arab League (1945–1952). ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower ... the president was said to have chosen to strike the word congressional in ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- point for Korean and Japanese scholars to strike a concensus regarding the ... (form) named for him that was created by General Choi Honghi and his colleague ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- borough of Stepney in 1919. At the 1922 general election, Attlee became ... In 1926, he actively supported the General Strike. In 1927, he reluctantly ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- it gives the Court considerable power to strike down state and federal statutes ... when substantive due process was used to strike down minimum wage and labor ...45 KB (7,039 words) - 01:13, 16 January 2023
- in this way, the election will strike a mean between monarchy and ... be able to clarify a code of conduct. A general must seek courage, the mean ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- General Rubén Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, better known as Fulgencio ... Cuban war of independence from Spain under General José Maceo. Batista’s ...18 KB (2,625 words) - 11:10, 20 September 2023
- in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy ... then wrote to the Army’s Brigadier General Charles Young and persuaded ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- controversially dismissed by the Governor General in 1975 and the government ... airlines in the 1989 Australian pilots' strike. On social policy ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- elected Prime Minister at the Australian general election, 1949 elections ... . He was immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the ... but also for the elite ruling class in general. Because of Kuchma's ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United ... The strike's intent was to protect Imperial Japan's advance ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- husband's term. In the October 2007 general election, Fernández ran ... attacked farmers for their two-week strike and "abundant" ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- England," an invasion force meant to strike at the British Isles, around ... march all the way from Vienna and join General Legrand's men, who ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- The referendum comprised three fairly general questions, and was meant ... not do this without triggering another general strike. Nor could it gain the ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- practical work in parts of the world, in general, horses today are used mainly ... in which a foreleg and opposite hind leg strike the ground together, while ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- War, conceived and commanded by U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ... The idea to land UN forces at Inchon was proposed by General MacArthur ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- movements and intentions on Brigadier General Wilson McCutchan, who commanded ... around the premise that a successful strike against thinly manned stretches ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The angels immediately strike the townsmen blind and warn Lot of the ... In accordance with the general Israeli practice of naming places for ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- On November 18, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly urged nations to ... On November 18, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly urged nations to ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
- After a prolonged strike, many of the Toho actors had left to form ... Samurai Assassin, and The Emperor and a General. Kurosawa's output ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- conditions, Aristotle formulates a general account of moral responsibility ... that the use of power and force is, in general, the right of the state ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- he accepted the position of head coach and general manager of the Green Bay ... NFL season, staying on as the team's general manager in 1968 and handing ...16 KB (2,531 words) - 20:23, 3 May 2023
- such as the use of halfway houses and general monitoring of convicts upon their release, literacy and other educational programs in prisons ...17 KB (2,512 words) - 01:44, 8 December 2022
- Inspired by General Charles de Gaulle to enter public life, Chirac ... in November-December 1995, in a general strike, one of the largest since ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- and soft movements were suitable for general practitioners. Yang Ch& ... hips, knees and feet are commonly used to strike. Techniques such as strikes ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- 30,000 factory workers in the area went on strike for better wages. ... but refused to open their doors to the general public. As could be expected ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- and the idea that they were poised to strike at the nation like a deadly ... States Congressman from Indiana against General Walter Q. Gresham, Kerr ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- Spaniards. Bernardino de Sahagun, "General History of The Things of ... the end of the agricultural season, and strike at the beginning of the war ...39 KB (6,310 words) - 01:38, 26 September 2023
- real target of the second shootdown was General Peter Walls, head of the ... way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head."Joshua ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- of British Commonwealth forces under Major-General Richard O’Connor. ... of Allied forces under the Australian General, Leslie Morshead. ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- David K. Levine, [http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew ... on the right to strike. In 1842, a General Strike involving cotton workers ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- the Wilhelmshaven mutiny turned into a general rebellion that quickly swept ... fled to Stuttgart and called for a general strike. While Kapp's vacillating ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- in the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the ... light and was able to maneuver and strike quickly) consisted of the ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- of the United Nations Charter and of the General Armistice Agreement between ... In early May the Israeli cabinet authorized a limited strike against ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- On V-J Day, United States President Harry Truman appointed General ... #039;s workers were ready to call a general strike, in an attempt to take ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War ... Burnside was not the most apt general to take the field during the ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- idea of employing the popular language for general literary purposes. Authors ... Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. Russian Poetry.net, [http://max ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- not affect a person's intelligence, general knowledge, awareness, attention ... of traumatic events. Its frequency in the general population can be seen during ...23 KB (3,498 words) - 17:16, 26 July 2023
- the Naval General Staff had planned on using Japanese light surface ... The Naval General Staff proved reluctant to go along with his ideas ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- as a day to celebrate island culture in general and native Hawaiian culture ... during the course of a three-day general strike in Chicago that involved ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- were princes Kül Tigin and Bilge and the general Tonyukuk, whose life stories ... Bumin Khan (d. 552) made a pre-emptive strike against the Uyghur and Tiele ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor-General of India. This position ... teach her mother words such as knobstick (strike-breaker).P. Ingham, 1995 ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- then, without allowing the ball to strike the floor, return it, and ... The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- language translation of Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis ... Gamble, The American Tobacco Company, and General Electric. Bernays emphasized ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- She participated in the French general strike of 1933, called to protest unemployment and wage labor cuts. The following year she took a 12-month ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- had collapsed. This was largely due to a strike by Loyalists. ... executive to be up and running, after a general election on March 7, 2007. ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- to one locale (an outbreak), more general (an "epidemic" ... * Phase 6: Pandemic: increased and sustained transmission in general ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- However, the agency's role in union strike-breaking eventually disillusioned ... a Communist front group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- radicalized Reed. He allied with the general socialist union, the Industrial ... Reed was deeply disappointed by the general collapse in working-class ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- where the fault changes from subduction to strike-slip (the two plates push ... exist to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- of World War I, which would ultimately strike the death knell for the autocratic ... descendant of a great noble family, a general in the Russian artillery ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- *A central strike force of 250,000 under the emperor's personal ... *The Third Army of Reserve, under Cavalry General Tormassov, numbered ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- In 1755, General Braddock rehabilitated Washington and took him on ... doctrines, King Frederick determined to strike first. On August 29, his ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- emerged victorious in 1975, along with the general communist victory in Indochina ... the Mien and Khmu, led by Royal Lao Army General Vang Pao, a Hmong military ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- In 1973, Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by General ... error while the hospital she was in was on strike. She was severely brain damaged ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- labor movement. The first major sympathy strike was in 1903 when railway ... Canada's first general strike occurred following the death of ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- to exercise judicial review, the power to strike down laws that violate the ... he was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with General George Washington's ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- of the business community called a general strike, which effectively paralyzed ... a communiqué with FSLN's call for general insurrection. The guerrillas ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- uses five identical redundant IBM 32-bit general purpose computers (GPCs ... The four general-purpose computers operate essentially in lockstep ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and a Prussian general who governed the city in ... against the Ottoman Turks and hoping to strike Saint Petersburg directly ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country ... * So Disdained (1928), written soon after the General Strike of 1926 ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, Distinguished Service Order (DSO ... gauntlet, stared at him and dared him to strike. The senior refused. Wingate ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- Chapter 3 (with its personal but highly general content) being written ... and hope even when God allows his enemy to strike him mercilessly." ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- Thunderstorms strike Texas often, especially the eastern and northern ... On April 21, 1836, the Texans—led by General Sam Houston—won their ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- #039;s undergraduate housing system. In general, NYU residence halls receive ... and subsequent strike in 2005. [http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/stor ...33 KB (4,775 words) - 09:32, 11 March 2023
- Pieterszoon Coen's tenure as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. ... On September 22, 2006, there was a massive strike by the Catholics ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- But in 1913, a German doctors' strike was averted by adding members ... UK according to the four categories of general practitioners, accident ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- Joab meets Abner, Ish-Bosheth's general, at the pool of Gibeon. ... his man, Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, to strike down Joab where he stands ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- During the General Strike of 1926 the King took exception to suggestions that the strikers were 'revolutionaries' saying, "Try ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- the term is used quite frequently. In general, it can be said that among ... Spain as a member under the leadership of General Franco. In 1953 Camus was ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- of his catcher and Branch Rickey, then general manager of the Pirates, ... 79; batters hit .205 against him), and to strike out more than nine batters ...22 KB (3,298 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- near the calderas; and the Réunion cuckoo-strike. Barau's petrel lives ... of government are the president of the General Council and the president ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- was in force between 1958 and 1962 (under General Ayub Khan) and between 1969 ... of the two wings along with the President General Yahya Khan met in Dhaka ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- routes between Japan and southern Asia. General Douglas MacArthur favored ... called Southern Force, would act as mobile strike forces. All three forces ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- century Surgeon-Superintendent of the General Infirmary. It is composed ... demands for rights, and a 1981 hunger strike reinforced their case and ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- this period. Parthenon was built under the general supervision of the sculptor ... the pain he ordered Hephaestus to strike him with his forging hammer ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- less than an hour. British commander General James Wolfe successfully ... specifically Governor de Vaudreuil and General Montcalm, were unsettled ...33 KB (5,197 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union ... General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was organized ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- word "gamel," meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix ... style, and cultural context. In general, no two gamelan ensembles ...37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- Volkswirtschaftslehre (Outline of General Economic Theory) published ... Volkswirtschaftslehre (Outline of General Economic Theory), the most ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 01:03, 27 July 2023
- power was split between him, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral ... power was split between him, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral ...25 KB (3,718 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- of Hannibal, the brilliant Carthaginian general, was demonized. ... important Italian cities, the general loyalty Italian allies showed ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
