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sit-down
(redirected from sit-down strike)

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sit-down
a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators sit down in a public place as a protest or to draw attention to a cause


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It's almost as if cable television's journalists are engaged in an electronic sit-down strike - Why dig for information from principals when you can run out the clock asking tertiary figures about the unknown?
Cholesterol-clobbering drugs called statins do their good work via the molecular equivalent of a sit-down strike, report researchers in the May 11 SCIENCE.
For a second there, I thought she was going to say, "So I joined my local lesbian SWAT team and staged a sit-down strike in the editorial offices of our paper until they agreed to more balanced coverage of gay issues.
 
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