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The 70-plus teachers at Darwen Vale high school in Lancashire, who stopped work on Thursday and picketed the building, were insistent therefore that they were not striking against their pupils, who were described even by a local NUT official on the picketline as "no better or no worse" than any others, but against the school's management, including its recently appointed head, Hilary Torpey, whom they said were not giving them the necessary support.
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On Wednesday, the day negotiations were concluded, there were hundreds on a picketline that stretched two blocks outside BoA's LaSalle Street office.
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Strikes were part of modern economies, though some picketline activity in recent disputes had not been acceptable.
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The main picketline needed to keep Russian subs out of the trade routes was about to go permanently off the air.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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The probability, of his being searched when he came to the Confederate picketline was not remote, and in such event he was to swallow the pellet.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The probability, of his being searched when he came to the Confederate picketline was not remote, and in such event he was to swallow the pellet.
The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Volume II., Part 4 Philip Henry Sheridan 1859
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The probability, of his being searched when he came to the Confederate picketline was not remote, and in such event he was to swallow the pellet.
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete Philip Henry Sheridan 1859
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The probability, of his being searched when he came to the Confederate picketline was not remote, and in such event he was to swallow the pellet.
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2 Philip Henry Sheridan 1859
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Laurie Olmon, a patient at Unity Hospital, joined the picketline to show support.
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Hundreds walked the picketline at each hospital, including this group at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids.
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