• And, according to Professor Hyman, this also weakened the power of local union activists like shop stewards, and unions adopted a more "strategic" use of power, where strike were the last resort, not the first course of action.

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  • The first is that although the West is safe in the sense that the existential threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power or a first strike by a nuclear-armed aggressor is now vanishingly small, the rise of jihadist terrorism has left people feeling vulnerable.

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  • Though many people vehemently disagree with particular decisions of the court, its legal power to strike down state or federal laws, to arbitrate disputes between the president and Congress, and between either of them and the states, remains unchallenged.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of justice

  • He said he was not calling for "the instant abandonment of nuclear power" but "just for a pause, for the referral of the strike price negotiation to the Public Accounts Committee, other select committees or to an independent panel of experts".

    BBC: Sellafield Nuclear Plant

  • When he turned back to 1549 to instruct it to turn west, Sullenberger advised him he had lost power in both engines because of a bird strike and needed to return to LaGuardia for an emergency landing.

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  • Mr Chavez's government has been firmly in control of PDVSA since 2003, when it fired 40% of the workforce in the aftermath of a general strike aimed at forcing him from power.

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  • It has the power to suspend or strike off doctors they find guilty of misconduct.

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  • Officials learned that it was still uncertain whether the key power workers at Ballylumford (in east Antrim) would come out in support of the strike.

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  • Eyre believes the poem has lost little of its power or relevance in the past 25 years, despite its references to the miners' strike and skinheads.

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  • The announcement was dampened somewhat by a pre-emptive strike that Intel made last week, when it introduced some low-power chips of its own.

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  • The capability to strike at very long range with very great accuracy using conventional weapons has been a goal of strategic air power since the invention of the airplane.

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  • Ellington had his first sight of goal 17 minutes from time, but the former Wigan striker failed to get any power on his long-range strike and Begovic made a comfortable save.

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