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coal strike

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meanings of coaland strike


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coal
noun[C or U]
uk /kəʊl/ us /koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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strike
noun[C]
uk /straɪk/ us /straɪk/
a period of time when workers refuse to work because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels, or ...
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The result was not just a coalstrike but a general strike.
He pointed out that the rate of increase had been halved in 1971, but that was before the coalstrike.
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This is partly a reflection of a general slackening in world trade as well as of special factors, such as the coalstrike.
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At the start of the coalstrike, total stocks of solid smokeless fuels were equivalent to about five weeks' normal winter consumption.
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We all know the type of persons who, in a coalstrike, will go and lug ladies' portmanteaux about on the platforms at.
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These strikes—the coalstrike, the railway strike, the transport workers' strike—bring in their train a large number of political evils.
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After allowing for inflation, this is lower than last year, which bore the brunt of the public expenditure cost of the coalstrike.
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The coalstrike has been a great tragedy.
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Recent history in the current coalstrike suggests to me that we have perhaps fractionally more basis for our anxiety than does my noble friend.
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In one year the coalstrike caused a large amount of extra poverty and necessitated considerably more feeding.
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The next strike came in the autumn of 1920, when there was a general coalstrike, which lasted about 10 days and again collapsed.
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I shall not go into the merits of the recent coalstrike.
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Have the effects of the coalstrike been quantified?
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We should appreciate that the coalstrike will deplete the balance of generating boards.
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While we move towards a national coalstrike, will he continue to do absolutely nothing?
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This is quite irrespective of any effect on this industry of the coalstrike.
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It would have been a safeguard when in times past a coalstrike was imminent.
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We have just passed through a coalstrike.
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You cannot have a coalstrike without that.
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Take, for instance, the first coalstrike in 1921.
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