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"Labour" in a Sentence (24 examples)
We are indirectly dependent upon the labour of others for all the necessities and comforts of our lives.
Hanson is wrong when he states international economic developments led to great migrations of labour in the seventeenth century.
"I'd rather get the sack than not join the labour union," said the disgruntled worker.
The argument continues about the "white-collar exemption" that exempts specific white-collar workers from the "eight hours per day, 40 hours per week" working hours, as fixed by labour standards legislation.
Distrust of the Social Insurance Agency and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare just keeps getting stronger.
Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive.
The reformed Labour Standards Act will be in force from Jan 1st 2004.
They rarely spoke of the labour problem at their workplace.
We all labour against our own cure; for death is the cure of all disease.
Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life.
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[…]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]
Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition
Paul Doherty came to the rescue when his wife Georgina went into labour early just minutes from their local hospital.
the establishment of a new settlement are entitled to five sitios of grazing land, and five labors (equal to 23,025 acres)
Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
"Crab" 2-6-0 No 42802 labours up to Beattock Summit with a northbound freight from Carlisle in August 1960.
I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
It is needless to labor a point which is so well known. Everyone understands and appreciates the joy of finding that the long darkness is giving way, that the Sun is growing in strength, and that the days are winning a victory over the nights.
the stone that labours up the hill
The line too labours, and the words move slow.
to cure the disorder under which he laboured
the ship laboured so much, and took in so much water in her upper works, that we could neither eat, nor sleep dry
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