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picketing
Securing an aircraft when it is parked in the open. An aircraft may be picketed with the mooring rings that are built into the pavement. The aircraft also may be picketed to the movable and above-ground picketing blocks. These are heavy blocks made of reinforced concrete with inbuilt rings. Picketing blocks are not used for heavy aircraft. An aircraft is tied to these rings or blocks with rope or cables. Also called a tiedown. See also aircraft tiedown and mooring rings.
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Judges have determined whether picketing was lawful based on physical and perceptual criteria.
``In the meantime, Cymuned members who had been picketing Beresford Adams in Pwllheli will start to picket the Pwllheli branch of Dafydd Hardy.
``I have got no problem with the unions picketing City or County Halls but I want to see public facilities kept open.
who started the civil action in 1993, London MPP Marion Boyd, sought to prevent all pro-life demonstrations whatsoever, including picketing and prayer at doctors' residences.
Recently there has been a debate thin the Ontario labour movement about the wisdom and legitimacy of picketing and demonstrating outside the homes of managers, owners, right-wing politicians, etc.
Nearly two years later, in an editorial on August 12, 1933, on the eve of Costonie's campaign, the Afro-American again advocated boycotting and picketing, this time against businesses that fired Blacks and hired whites at the higher NRA-mandated wages.(22)
The pilots of Comair, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association International (ALPA), will conduct informational picketing at the Cincinnati Airport.
FIRE chiefs were defeated by their own picketing firefighters yesterday.
``The stress and strain put upon the workers in picketing for this length of time cannot be overstated.''
- Consider establishing what is known as a "reserved gate" system which limits picketing to one entrance that must be used by RAB members, its suppliers, and employees.
From a purely financial view, their stubborn willingness to allow continued picketing was a disaster.
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