41.   The numbers were unusually low because of a two-week, nationwide strike at United Parcel Service, the biggest such walkout in decades.

42.   The opposition leaders, now facing an information blockade on their protests and under threat of having marches stopped by force, have reluctantly called for nationwide strikes.

43.   The one-two punch she referred to was demonstrated Monday when a broad coalition of moderate and left-wing labor groups held a nationwide strike and street protests.

44.   The opposition has urged a nationwide strike and civil disobedience.

45.   The negotiations are aimed at averting the first nationwide strike at UPS.

46.   The purpose was to stifle the freedom movement, but Mohandas Gandhi, leading the movement, responded with a call for a nationwide strike.

47.   The South African rand stabilized amid signs a one-day nationwide strike drew sparse support and had little effect on production.

48.   Their call for a nationwide strike was ignored by a majority of store owners.

49.   The walkout at the port comes two days before a scheduled meeting of truckers groups to decide whether to call a nationwide strike.

50.   They had also threatened an indefinite nationwide strike unless a final agreement was reached yesterday.