How To Use Picket In A Sentence

The orchestrated escort and the accompanying police violence in clearing the picket reflected the involvement of city based police, the local constabulary having been cooperative with the workers.
A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
The new law will still allow peaceful picketing.
However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .

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Trip flares, attached to low pickets, can be placed around a position or in an ambush site, and may either be fired when an enemy touches a tripwire or initiated by the defender or ambusher.
Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
Unions held demonstrations and picketed across the country. U.K. Public-Sector Workers Strike
Goodenow and his cohorts tell the players that fans support them, but just who the heck does the NHLPA think will back their picket line when the owners turn to replacement players next winter?
Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimately fruitless talks.
Workers also made it clear that any move to evict the union from its office would be met with a mass picket.
Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
She also acted as a radar picket and re-supplied Army outposts and British Antarctic Scientists on South Georgia, 800 miles from the Falklands.
White picket fencing, kerbstones around plots and over-elaborate flower beds were also to be stopped in a bid to tidy up cemeteries.
Today it probably has more use keeping strikers warm on picket lines. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever I picket my workplace the police tell us that the law says we can only have six people on the picket line.
From a distance they gave the appearance of a low gray picket fence on top of which a long swath of green brocade had been spread. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
The union organised a month-long picket.
She says communal living suits her better than any white picket fence in the suburbs could.
Meanwhile the resolve of some 18,000 engineers and technical workers to continue walking the picket lines remains strong.
Workers picketed the site and scuffles broke out between picketers and non-union workers.
It doesn't always have to be the picket fence and the dog. The Sun
Workers picketed the site and scuffles broke out between picketers and non-union workers.
SAPHOR spokesman "Golden Miles" Bhudu, with his hands and legs in chains, said the picket was the start of a campaign to free ANC Daily News Briefing
Members on one picket line set up a barbecue to cook breakfast.
Although prior to the lockout Westshore had an estimated 1 million ton stockpile of coal available to load, unionized longshore workers refused to cross the railway pickets and those who were working walked out.
But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye.
He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away.
Sorry - Bad mistake: I really didn't mean 'picket' -- that'd make us as bad as them, but more obvious! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Five pickets were arrested by police.
Obstacles of every kind abound, and at night each side can hear the enemy driving pickets for entanglements, digging _trous-de-loup_, or working forward by sapping. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
What I was attempting to say (albeit too concise – and more easily misconstrued) was that the woman pictured behind the picket was already being forced to hide herself by her own culture/religion. Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted – muslim | My[confined]Space
A group of women on the picket line symbolised the strikers ' militant mood.
At Duneen Mill in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, 425 national guardsmen were deployed to break up pickets.
A white fence picketed the yard on three sides.
A little boy on a tricycle darted out in front of them from behind a white picket fence but quickly turned and pedaled away when he noticed them standing above him.
The injunction also prohibits picketers from blocking the scabs' entry to the plant.
Fred Phelps and other family members who make up most of the Westboro Baptist Church have picketed many military funerals to draw attention to their view that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Supreme Court OKs anti-gay church's picketing at funerals
Get creative with a picket fence and have diagonal pales nailed to the horizontal boards.
For example, James Longstreet's protest to Robert E. Lee on the infeasibility of Pickett's Charge is well-known.
It was fenced with white picket wood, and the dirt was clean and smooth, as if someone had just cleaned it up hours before.
Let not my length and my breadth nor yet my bulk delude thee, with respect to the son of Adam; for he, of the excess of his guile and his cunning, fashions for me a thing called a hobble and hobbles my four legs with ropes of palm-fibres, bound with felt, and makes me fast by the head to a high picket, so that I remain standing and can neither sit nor lie down, being tied up. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
The chief engineer of Pickett (the slide rule company) was undoubtedly faced with retraining for a position in a different industry.
During the course of the protest, riot police arrested 23 strikers and mounted attacks on the picket lines.
We do have a corner lot with a quaint picket fence running along it so we string lights on there.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the picket was mainly concerned with preventing blackleg labour from being taken in to replace strikers.
He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning labour and the inalienable rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and, wandering to and fro, thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown, when he returned to his pickets for food. Life's Handicap
No one tried to cross the picket lines.
Hundreds or thousands of workers are pulled off their regular jobs to organize events like pickets and street demonstrations.
Some of our members were crossing picket lines in which other members were marching. Christianity Today
Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.
At one point 16,000 dockers organised mobile pickets and closed the docks along the Thames.
In the week before Palm Sunday and Passover, could multireligious folk picket the banks that are funding Old King Coal, That Lethal Old Soul, and demand that the investment money be channeled to wind and solar power instead? Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now
There was also in evidence picket poles, rods, chains and all the instrumental paraphernalia of field work.
That's right, that's what they call a picket line. Oral History Interview with Robert Cole, May 10, 1981. Interview H-0311. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages with front porches and picket fences hardly seems avant-garde.
But victory was thrown away by the Labour leadership, dissociating itself from even a raised fist on a picket line.
You must not assume that on every occasion there is a mass picket there is going to be trouble.
Harking back to the Ozzie-and-Harriet world of white picket fences and Chevy-driving Crest-using Republican-voting white-bread-eating version of America as some vision of America today is just plain whacked. May 2006
This protester's son, who has picketed the clinic since he was a small child (he is now in his early twenties), has made a point of mentioning ammonium nitrate, which is used in making bombs, to us while protesting on several occasions. Jen Boulanger: Come Together to Prevent My Murder
They hire heavies to drive minibuses and intimidate our picket lines.
Once they fired a volley at a row of mullen stalks, waving on the brow of a hill, and once a picket shot at his own horse that had got loose and had wandered toward him in the dusk. Mark Twain: A Biography
There was a mass picket by students outside the main office of the university.
The best time is about an hour before sunset, when you can exit through a picket gate and head north along the beach.
The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the government.
On the picket line there was the deafening sound of car horns tooting support, and strikers cheering, singing and chanting.
I don't see myself crossing the picket line. Times, Sunday Times
Firehoses were turned on and soon three thousand picketers, thugs, and police rumbled in the streets with clubs, blackjacks, wrenches, chains, and tear gas.
Outside, to the west of the house, there is a gravelled patio surrounded by euphorbia beds, two-block built outhouses and a timber shed, while to the east is a lawn area edged with a white picket fence.
Despite rainy weather, strikers picketed the company's head office in central Colombo.
During the 1977 strike, firemen recall the police waving their overtime payslips in front of the picket lines.
Candidates for graduate issues officer were asked whether they would cross picket lines should unionised workers on campus go on strike.
The proposed new law would ban picketing.
We are organizing a mass picket of the abortion clinic.
The picket fence that once enclosed the lawn was gone, too, and people just drove their cars right up to the porch.
Your correspondent thoroughly enjoyed reading this 32 page history book which was written by Douglas Pickett and beautifully illustrated by Harry Tucker.
Since the union representing taxi drivers has indicated they would respect picket lines, a walkout would effectively shut down taxi service to the entire city.
When they are oligomerized by a gold particle or by liganding, they have a much lower chance of crossing a picket line, due to the increased interactions with the anchored membrane-protein pickets.
Another 200 workers, comprising Teamsters, electricians, sheet metal workers, operating engineers, boilermakers and pipe fitters, honored machinists' picket lines during the strike.
It has been reported that some SFU instructors have supported the striking workers by refusing to cross picket lines.
Meanwhile, the armed pickets outside joined, no doubt, by gunmen escaping from inside the ground, were maintaining a fire in the direction of the police, who returned the fire.
Workers picketed the library and held a public rally.
A picket of 50 men in fort Putnam, 25 in fort Box, a sergt. & 12 men at the milldam from the 9th, 11th, 12th Regts. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
Some workers marched through the town and began picketing the factory.
The site, which is 5 metres by 7 metres, comes with two trestle tables, 20 plastic chairs and picket fencing.
A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
On Saturday, as port operators began to move cargo without the use of the striking longshoremen, the strikers initiated mass pickets to stop them.
Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback. Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson
Farmers are set to stage pickets at milk processing plants in North Yorkshire, according to a pressure group.
Several drivers honk their horns in support and the huddle of firefighters on the picket line lift their arms in grateful acknowledgement.
Workers were subjected to intimidation as they crossed the picket line.
They are known as ‘Scummers’, a term going back to a dock strike in the fifties, when blackleg labour was brought in to breach the picket lines.
In the latter, a meatpacker disowns his own brother for crossing the picket line.
The antidraft movement was starting to simmer, a pot that had been threatening to come to a boil ever since four hundred activists had picketed the Whitehall Street induction center, a couple of them even burning their draft cards. The Lovers
Is the picket fence the wrong size? Times, Sunday Times
Striking workers picketed the factory.
And if that doesn't work, they must cross the picket line and proudly vow to put patients first. The Sun
They struck on Tuesday of last week, when many strikers joined the picket line, and were due out again this Thursday.
Sixty mineworkers defied a Coal Industry Tribunal order this week to disband their picket line outside Wesfarmers Premier Coal in Collie, Western Australia.
There was also in evidence picket poles, rods, chains and all the instrumental paraphernalia of field work.
Picketing gave way to marches through factories, when workers would chase blacklegs and occasionally kidnap managers.
Casting amateur actors in these shows is tantamount to using scabs in the midst of a strike, and acting in one of these shows is akin to crossing a picket line.
Meanwhile the locked out picket line remains in place, in spite of the onset of winter with its zero overnight temperatures, strong winds, rain, sleet, and light falls of snow.
Hence the decision of the union bureaucracy to drive a stake into the heart of the strike by pulling the pickets at one of the chains.
Led by Operation Rescue director Flip Benham, the protesters picketed outside several area abortion clinics.
Police ordered the picketers to stay on the sidewalk, set up wooden barricades to pen them in and told strikers to extinguish the fires in oil drums they lit to stay warm.
Pro-choice supporters donate money to the clinic for each picket who shows up.
I went to the mass picket and heard comments like, ‘This is good-loads of people including taxi drivers tooted their horns in support as they went past.’
This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.
I used to be a postman but left to find a better job as normal people do i also "scabbed" and crossed the pathetic picket line..... Heads must roll at the Royal Mail
He said if individuals continues to picket meat factories and are identified to him he will deal with them severely.
Our cust'mary precaution iv dhrawin 'in th' pickets afther nightfall an 'buryin' our rifles, which had repeatedly failed in th 'past owin' to th 'caution iv th' Boers, wurruked admirably. Observations By Mr. Dooley
Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles.
While they're out manning the picket lines, Billy is left home to care for his senile grandmother.
For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune. AvaxHome
Firefighters in Wales left the picket line in an unsuccessful attempt to save a life.
The wholesomeness of industrial society during this epoch was captured by the American economist and Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman, in his memorable image of a picket fence.
One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain. CHAPTER IX
Will she now think twice before joining the picket line again? The Sun
He had trailed a "road agent" across, the Bad Lands for hundreds of miles, brought him back to within a few miles of Deadwood and picketed him out for the night. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
Dawn picket lines were set up Monday following a weekend walkout over pay.
I need to find a normal, nice girl who is looking for a life companion, kids, the white picket fence...
One in five crossed picket lines. Times, Sunday Times
The desk clerk at the hotel lied to the representative and claimed there were no picketers, but the customer service representative could hear the bullhorns over the phone.
They join no picket line. The Sun
Photographs from the time show pickets trying to stop strike-breakers entering Warner Brothers in 1946.
They suffered stigmatism, criminalization (jailed for picketing the White House on trumped up charges), they endured abuse at the hands of government officials (force feeding in jail while on a hunger strike). Love and Solidarity on IDEVASW Day « Bound, Not Gagged
This attack on democratic rights is in response to the campaign by many present and former employees for the reinstatement of the 1,300 dismissed workers through go-slows, lunchtime pickets and petitions.
Lillesand is a beautiful little town full of wooden houses with white picket fences and gardens overflowing with roses.
The local press ignored them, probably because there was no colliery in the community and there was therefore no local story of strike-breakers crossing picket lines.
In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence.
While the strikers walk the picket lines, more than 20 employees have decided to continue working.
In terms of companies' vulnerability, it is not the picketing of branches that is the biggest worry. Times, Sunday Times
By 7am there were 300 pickets outside the main hospital.
Strikers picketed offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Nottingham.
By February, 900 miners had abandoned the strike; at the pit gates, handfuls of pickets made desultory shouts of ‘scab’ as the trickle of working miners became a flood.
As pressure groups across the country today threatened to stage pickets at supermarkets and processing plants, local farmers said the action was ‘entirely justified’.
I don't agree with strikes or picket lines. The Sun
There were unofficial strikes involving up to 250,000 workers, demonstrations and mass pickets.
Workers from Metro Shelving in the Sydney suburb of Revesby began picketing the plant this week to demand reinstatement.
Train drivers refused to cross the miners' picket, stopping the movement of all export coal to the port of Lyttelton.
On November 26, French riot police broke through a picket line at a mint producing the new euro coins in Pessac, near Bordeaux.
the fleecy care"; of fishes as "the scaly tribe"; and of a picket fence as a "spiculated paling. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
It was in a yard surrounded by the same white picket fencing.
Strike leaders now fear thousands of the medics will cross picket lines as they do not support the action. The Sun
Most of the places we looked at were 19th-century timber-framed houses with picket fences. Times, Sunday Times
Pickett says that some ten percent of video views are now seen on mobile devices -- and the move to connected TV's is making the term "online video" less germane as videos appear on multiple platforms. Andy Plesser: Exclusive: YouTube's Tom Pickett and Lance Podell on YT's Fast Expanding Creator Network
There was a mass picket by students outside the main office of the university.
On the other, a wholly different set of images, of queues of frustrated holidaymakers fuming about missing their flights, of headteachers and plucky parents battling to keep classrooms open in the face of union bullying, a photographers' hunt to find Ed Miliband crossing a picket line, perhaps even a punch-up with the police, if the Daily Mail really gets lucky. Public sector pensions: after the strike, the settlement | Editorial
Being also a first year student, he had come in with his ju'jut'su and between them they had won the battle, but not until the Jap had been hung over a picket fence with a jagged wound in his shoulder. Triple Spies
Workers continue to enter the plant despite intimidation by mass pickets.
So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
They join no picket line. The Sun
Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
picket the goat
Instead of a picket line, the strikers will volunteer at nursing homes and community centers across the province.
In a phone message to a friend, Siegel also threatened to picket the home of a prominent gay philanthropist.
Many of the workers picketing the depot are themselves parents of children who have had to find alternate means to get to school.
The scouting reports she was pouring over had nothing to do with far-flung picket ships reporting back targets of opportunity.
When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night-dew gemming his moustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with Soldier Stories
We -- they're forming what they call informational pickets on the issue of illegal immigration and our border security crisis. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006
Not coincidentally, this was the time Luther Pickett arrived on the scene. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
Steve: It would be interesting to see how many on the D side would put their names to this sentence — “Third, this Court, as well as many lower courts, has recognized that targeted picketing ... is a particularly intrusive and harassing form of speech” — if it were a case involving enjoining the SEIU protesters from standing on the lawn of a BofA attorney. blah blah abortion clinics blahblah The Volokh Conspiracy » State Attorneys General Argue that Non-Media Speakers Should Get Less First Amendment Protection than Media Speakers
It is conspicuously anti-gay and anti-Semitic, and has gone out of its way to earn contempt around the country by picketing the funerals of soldiers and Marines killed in combat.
We wanted to picket to raise awareness that we are not prepared to accept the derisory pay offer that has been imposed on us.
Even if they do — the way, for instance, picket, as in "picket fence," and piqué, "a stiff fabric with a raised pattern," do — that hardly implies that nowadays they're synonyms. Word Court
They are now picketing the engineering workshops.
They organized a mass picket of the governor's palace.
This is a charge frequently brought against pickets.
The striking workers picketed the company's Springvale head office.
No, the workers were not restive, nor were pickets lining up outside.
COSATU believes that the right to picket, which is fundamental to the right of workers to organise themselves, and to assemble and demonstrate in support of their grievances, should be expressly included within the ambit of this section. ANC Daily News Briefing
The cabins stand in their own picket-fenced patch of grass amid beautiful countryside.
I don't see myself crossing the picket line. Times, Sunday Times
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Dozens of protesters took to the streets today picketing for their jobs and the jobs of their family members Friday morning. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
Workers continue to enter the plant despite intimidation by mass pickets.
This definition can cover legitimate forms of protest, including strikes, pickets, blockades and mass demonstrations.
There was widespread picketing of mines where work was continuing.
Picketing gave way to marches through factories, when workers would chase blacklegs and occasionally kidnap managers.
Phelps and members of his congregation picketed the funeral, displaying signs bearing virulently anti-gay slogans. Geoffrey R. Stone: Funerals and Free Speech
Pipe fitters, electrical and sheet metal workers, brick masons and ironworkers were reported to have honored picket lines at the stadium worksite.
I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern. In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
The truth is that Pickett was cited for gallantry and was breveted twice in fighting in Mexico.
_Bête Noire_, my _bête noire_, and so I called him, and as he is by no means averse to eating through his head rope when picketed, I find that the curtailment to "gnaw" is satisfactory enough as far as names go. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
Expect troops to be sent across picket lines to commandeer the red fire engines.
The strikers returned to work on November 8 after three days on the picket line when managers threatened a lockout.
There is also a fencing division that produces garden fencing, picket fencing, post and rail and mortise fencing.
Every couple of feet one stood on a soapbox and made angry speeches to passing picketers.
The company president drove a truck through the picket line himself to deliver products and to pick up supplies. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
BA and MA in engineering from the University of Illinois at CU, as well as a connection with T. Boone Pickets, and many notices in the India Times. Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog
He says: 'Most people think their food still comes from a little farm with a red barn and white picket fence. The Sun
The visitors were all well behaved though and there were no pickets outside, at least not when we were there.
There were unofficial strikes involving up to 250,000 workers, demonstrations and mass pickets.
There has been a stream of people coming to stand on the picket, most cars hoot in solidarity against the war.
The summer of 1984 and the Miners Strike witnessed some of its most violent scenes as battle lines were drawn between the police and pickets at the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place.
This means organising workplace collections and levies, taking strikers round meetings and workplaces in every town and city, organising delegations to demonstrations or to visit picket lines.
They organized a mass picket of the governor's palace.

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