How To Use Labour In A Sentence

Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
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And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
This book is clearly a labour of love. The Times Literary Supplement
The International Labour Organisation identifies the following factors that indicate forced labour.
In other words, agriculture provided labour for the new factories in the towns and, eventually, food supplies to feed the new industrial working class.
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
The UK already grants work visas for industries with labour shortages but these are required only for non-EU citizens. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
Those who were less keen to compete for migrants could resort to convicts as casual labour.
Plants in such areas tend to be less innovative, their technologies are older, and they employ less skilled labour.
Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
Cunnah is unlikely to let something like a labour dispute distract him from the job in hand.
And Leeds North West Labour MP Harold Best also believes there is a case for toughening the rules.
By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses.
A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work, and travellers from the station.
It was explained to me that because I was far-gone I would have to give birth by being induced into labour.
Where the lord of the manor had a demesne farm, the court appointed a reeve to supervise the farming activities, using labour services and collecting rents.
Tax cuts will leave more in people 's pockets to spend and $1 trillion of infrastructure investment will reinforce demand for labour for a decade. Times, Sunday Times
On the platform were representatives of the UK Independence Party, Conservatives, Lib-Dems, Labour and the Greens, and the usual mud-slinging followed.
The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
The Government said that it will legislate to keep the parties in the room, and then chuck another $1 million at the Department of Labour, and set up a semi-autonomous, not totally autonomous, unit.
This proposal was met with guffaws of laughter from the Labour-dominated committee, which included the then Coun Keith Thomson.
To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, a kind of elvish craft. Kicking the Hobbit
He died at the age of 49 in Kolyma, one of the Labour Camps set up by the Gulag.
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[LC] "A plaine declaracon, how greatlie the ffarmours of the Tobacco impost have bene endam - aged by that ffarme, and what proffitt and benefitt their labour & travell have brought to his Matie. The Records of the Virginia Company of London
He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
The region has a large and talented labour pool .
This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability. Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
In 1991 the new Länder accounted for 20 per cent of reunified Germany's combined labour force but less than 7 per cent of its combined GNP.
Labourers were found in the docks, railways, factories and domestic spheres, many of them employed on a casual basis.
Increasingly, Labour and Conservative support has become polarized between North and South and between urban and rural areas.
The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources.
The average yearly increment in labour productivity in industry was 4.5 per cent.
The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.
Economic statistics: Labour market statistics: average earnings.
The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
There's no doubt that this support has come from the middle class Labour vote.
It was essentially a labour-saving alternative to using a fork, whisk or food mixer. Times, Sunday Times
Joint enterprises are free to use and organize labour as they see fit, but they must conform to Soviet labour laws. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
For the past three elections the Labour Party has issued a manifesto of its aims and objectives.
I've been a card-carrying member of the Labour party for five years.
In the countryside, on the contrary, more hands were needed to work the fields in grain-growing regions, and males contracted marriages at younger ages to increase the rural labour supply.
The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
At this point I must once again digress briefly to say that I am totally in agreement with the response of the President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Joe Morris, to the announcement last week that the federal government intends to impose works councils on industries coming under federal jurisdiction. Let's Get Back to People
The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate, reformist labour movement.
Four weeks later, the Labour leaders declared that the Spanish government should have the right to buy arms and in 1937 both the Labour Party and the TUC condemned the policy of non-intervention.
An agreement to restrain wages on the part of the central labour federation might not extend to the population of non-union workers.
The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
Supporting families is set to become a key political battleground between Labour and the Conservatives at the general election. Times, Sunday Times
Did the Conservatives win courtesy of the division of the opposition vote between Labour and the Liberal Democrats?
With a Labour candidate in place they won by a mile.
I understood that he had stood down from his council posts, not the council, and had been deselected from the Labour Party.
A string of Labour figures of all ranks are calling for the Premier to quit to save the party from being fatally damaged. The Sun
The development of the sugar industry was directly linked with the African slave trade, due to the harsh physical demands and labour intensiveness of farming sugar.
During labour, the bag of water surrounding the baby in the womb often tears, and the water escapes through the vagina in a "gush". Chapter 12
In most years, the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts.
Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labour and toil of others.
Upset over being branded as a child labour employer, India's apparel export body AEPC has sought access to key documents of the US Labour Department which were used to "defame" the HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines
He said the company's internal disciplinary hearings procedure have been found by the Labour Court to be fair and proper.
This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.
From now on Labour will be on the back foot on the subject of welfare.
A pregnant woman needs exercise to keep her body and limbs supple and agile to ensure easy labour.
The Labour party's draft document, which it did not dare to publish, refers to London policing functions.
Such a result is a snub to traditional Labour policy - at least that's what you might think.
In response to the exposure of certain Labour peers in respect of their "consultancies", the Lib Dems have "called for a police inquiry" - see here. On "Calling for a Police Inquiry"
Such stories make you feel that this companion is in itself a labour of love. Times, Sunday Times
But ideological arguments, navel-gazing and the odd bout of nat-bashing aside, how will Labour members actually vote? Archive 2009-09-01
Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates.
Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
The Labour Party has moved to the right and become like your Democrat Party.
We conclude, therefore, that the radical perspective on the labour process offers a far-reaching critique of conventional organisation theory.
Labour, having survived this year's election, has been left with a heavy crop of marginal seats to defend.
Labour has not run out of radical steam, he says. Times, Sunday Times
Labour moderates propose a 56% rate rise, with ￡5.6m of cuts.
Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security.
They have not laboured in the vineyard long enough to accept the dynamics of the struggle that he has been engaged in.
Why commission a craftsman to labour for weeks on a design of guitar that was specifically intended for mass production?
Union representatives are planning to challenge New Labour policy at the party conference.
Labour is the capital of our working men.
The Labour group decided to block the sale of the shares at a private "away day" held at South Leeds Stadium on Friday.
May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour.
Reduced labour input and feed costs can be achieved by going down the route of feeding chopped straw as part of winter diets.
Most Labour MPs who quit the front bench will return only if elections are held. Times, Sunday Times
However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc). The murky politics of the Green Party
Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
Labour came to power, he now thinks that far-reaching reform is needed to tackle the problem. Times, Sunday Times
In particular we heard no evidence to satisfy us that the alleged subcontractors had agreed with the labourers or their gangmasters, in advance, as to the terms and conditions on which they were hired.
We also know that the labour movement has to work very hard to ensure that same equality of access and opportunity in the union.
He said he had to go on a listening tour of voters because'very safe Labour wards have become moribund. Times, Sunday Times
They are also massively supported by volunteers who undertake thousands of hours of unpaid labour. Times, Sunday Times
Labour often postponed planned duty rises when world oil prices were rising. The Sun
But the mechanisms that insulated the centres of power from democratic control affected the Labour Party too, right from the start.
From here we are treated to an account of Watson's rise through the political labour movement.
With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
A low-dose epidural is also a way of giving women a brief rest from the pain during early labour.
The working class and the labour movement are not like they were in the 1970s.
The Labour leader was asked to form a government.
Labour is going to learn whether or not it is possible to resist the public clamour for tax cuts and still win a general election.
But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth.
I have cared for women miscarrying, and women whose labours have been induced, for all their pain is immeasurable.
Flexibility of labour was obtained through the breakup of old trade union structures.
From now on Labour will be on the back foot on the subject of welfare.
This includes 24-hour roadside assistance, with no call-out charge and up to an hour's free roadside labour. Times, Sunday Times
These options are more expensive than brick and blockwork but the construction industry believes the savings in terms of time, labour and productivity make them cost effective.
How the return of a Labour government would affect the political calculations in Northern Ireland is difficult to foresee.
Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security.
As New Labour has proven, these are not the types of politicians who are natural pluralists ready to reinforce democratic citizenship.
International politics were a formative influence on the British labour movement.
These developments have also resulted in a political and intellectual crisis within the labour movement.
Working in a record shop was pretty much a labour of love. Times, Sunday Times
The critical factor is whether organized labour will form a part of the first, future, democratic government. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
February 4th, 2009 at 4: 24 pm it drives me nuts when women say "contractions aren't that bad, they're just like bad cramps" …. please. i'm happy for women who experience relatively fast, "crampy" labours, but i think the reality for most women is a little more intense …. maybe it's just me? who knows? Celebrity Baby Blog
As a self-confessed occasional HYS commenter on the BBC, it seems even their 'moderators' are tarnished by the bias and the 'house rules' are taken from their 'little labour book of creating wooly, abusable, and loopholed and rules and laws'. OPEN THREAD
The Robin peered in with his sharp little eye, and really admired the Tortoise's ingenious labour very much. Parables From Nature
When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort. Introduction, I.1
He then launches into a laboured attempt to show us what happens next by drawing on the history of oil in Kuwait.
Labour still requires an attitude to foreign policy that has teeth behind the smile. Times, Sunday Times
The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
The number of labourers employed has a pronounced influence on the work rate of the machines, particularly that of the smaller units with unmechanised loading. Chapter 6
She was a lifelong member of the Labour party.
The labourers went quietly and steadily on with their work, as though it were a thing that had to be done; and when Jüchziger laid his hand on one and another of them, with the idea of hindering them by force, he soon found himself repulsed in no very gentle fashion. The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
Conditions would become more conducive to entrepreneurial initiative, capital accumulation, the division of labour, technological innovation, and industrialization.
Hattie was born by caesarean section, because I wasn't strong enough to go into labour. I had cancer while I was pregnant
And these same Labour members have the nerve to criticise Mr Smith for offering weak opposition to the Government!
The labour unrest which swept the country last week has quietened down.
But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
There was a plentiful supply of cheap labour.
Now, Labour is sorely divided too, but success and power tend to concentrate minds, at least for a while.
The BNP's support comes from where Fascist support has always come from: people who sees themselves as a cut above their chavvy neighbours; in British terms, Tories in Labour areas. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
He criticised Labour claims that drones could render nuclear submarines obsolete. Times, Sunday Times
The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
Women also did considerably worse when it came to identifying his main election rival,[sentence dictionary] Labour's Alan Milburn.
International politics were a formative influence on the British labour movement.
He was introduced by the captain himself, a notably pious man, who spoke of the labours of his brother in the dark places of heathendom. Prester John
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
The shire's existing bowling club has become too expensive to maintain, especially with the price of labour and of materials such as fertiliser and weedicides constantly rising thereby putting more burden on a declining membership.
By now he had become an accepted part of the Labour middle ground. Times, Sunday Times
Delegates, who included academics and representatives of the asbestos industry, labour, government and the medical fraternity, also agreed that research should be done on phasing out the use of the sixth type of asbestos, called chrysotile, or white asbestos. ANC Daily News Briefing
Deficit – An excuse to do anything really out of order, eg: "Yes, I did spill red wine on your new white carpet, but what you must remember is that Labour left that carpet with a deficit of red wine; my spillage was the only responsible course of action. The buzz words of 2010 explained
Twenty-two percent of Caesareans are performed because of concerns for the baby's welfare, and another 20% are because the labour is not progressing.
Mr Cameron pointed out that Lord Paul, the Labour peer and close friend of Gordon Brown, was also a non-dom.
Steam catapults are labour intensive, while an electromagnetic aircraft-launch system appears to promise a reduction in the number of personnel involved.
Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
Not so many people collect the crabs today as it's so labour-intensive.
His working-class origins and his experience as a manual labourer allowed him to bring a practical understanding of the industrial world to his studies. Times, Sunday Times
It was an instant bestseller, but was also controversial in its portrayal of the treatment of migrants in Californian labour camps. Times, Sunday Times
The poll highlights the problems Labour would have in raising business confidence.
She did not live to see the full fruits of these labours. Times, Sunday Times
It also condemns Labour-minded people in the North to acute political frustration.
The Tories now have room to warn of a hidden Labour tax bombshell at the next election. Times, Sunday Times
The Labour party are supposed to be sympathetic to/towards the unions.
The shakeout in the labour market after Christmas usually makes January a bad month for unemployment.
If anything, the ‘backslapper’ and ‘working man's champ’ type was better known in the industrial districts of the US, than it ever was in Labour (with a ‘u’) movement.
During the early part of this century, before Caesarean sections were commonplace or indeed safe, pelvimetry (measurements of the maternal pelvis) was frequently employed in an attempt to predict the outcome of labour.
The guideline recommends that in women who are healthy and have an uncomplicated pregnancy, intermittent auscultation is a suitable method of monitoring during labour.
The Labour Party was returned to power in 2001.
HOWEVER, withdrawal of your labour is the least invasive means of making your point. Yet Another Strike at York University (and Osgoode Hall)? : Law is Cool
But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth.
Labour MPs shrieked in mock horror. Times, Sunday Times
Old Labour leader George, torn apart by the contradictions that have led to this riot, suddenly thinks he sees who is to blame, and drops his trimming and concession-making approach.
Oil is notoriously difficult to explode or burn, as it keeps putting itself out, but these were quarrymen, versatile, and well used to explosives, danger and hard physical labour.
The Labour left hate the Upper Classes and an old Etonian, sitting for the seat of Henley with a middle name of de Pfeffel who looks and sounds like a toff will be a target for all the bile they can produce. Boris "bigged up" by the BBC
I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
Instead, after a deal was stitched up with the big unions, the conference voted for a statement from the Labour National Executive which linked Britain's eventual withdrawal of troops to the return of democracy in Iraq.
After the poll tax was defeated in 1991 Scottish Militant Labour was launched as an open political party.
The developed countries would then have less difficulty in giving financial aid to the third world; and, what in my opinion is even more important, they could much more readily accept the inflow from the third world of their labour-intensive products. James E. Meade - Prize Lecture
I am privileged to have escaped the monotonous toil of endless physical labour and to have experienced a soft life in which I have been able to indulge my passion for history.
He criticised Labour claims that drones could render nuclear submarines obsolete. Times, Sunday Times
Not Old Labour malcontents - they could vote for the Scottish Socialists; not separatists - they had a choice of two parties.
This was a copper-bottomed New Labour promise, which is presumably why it has not happened.
A labour court in February ordered that the workers be re-instated and the six are back at work but they are refusing to move back into their humble houses on the farm.
Exit polls suggest a big Labour majority, but the true picture will only be known after the count.
Three of the biggest unions, Unison, the Communications Workers Union and the GMB have tabled motions at their annual conferences next month calling for members to disaffiliate from Labour. Archive 2008-05-01
Bass got a job as a builder's labourer. Times, Sunday Times
In the immediate postwar years he, then Labour foreign minister, was a key figure in the creation of Nato, the central plank of US military strategy during the Cold War.
Third, with cheap rural labour and using simple methods requiring little capital, it was not difficult to compete with the sclerotic State-owned enterprises.
But in an hour-long press conference which largely retrod the argument of yesterday's announcement, both men refused point-blank to comment on rumours of a new pact to pass the Labour leadership in return for entry to the euro.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
Perhaps this was a long-term reaction to the deprivation that he suffered during his twenties in a gulag labour camp. Times, Sunday Times
He was made chief whip, a position he retained after the 1992 election, having been one of the negotiating team that hammered out the coalition deal with Labour.
Vassilev said that the Bourgas Airport employees would be re-employed by the concessionaire and a group labour contract would be negotiated and signed with a year.
But the Conservatives had launched their Labour double whammy and tax bombshell campaigns months beforehand. Times, Sunday Times
Cameron made no secret of his plans before the election but the Liberal Democrat approach to macroeconomic policy was broadly similar to Labour's until Clegg flip-flopped the weekend after polling day. Cuts offer Ed Miliband an open goal
The prime minister used his keynote speech at Labour's spring conference in Gateshead to acknowledge it was largely his fault that his bond with the public had frayed.
You can expect to pay half an hour's labour for the diagnostics and a further half hour if it can be corrected on the spot.
Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
Now let's hope that the Lib Dems in Oldham East can pull their fingers out and finally unseat Mr Woolas next time because in my opinion, if there is any new Labour MP who deserves to lose his seat, it's Mr Woolas. Phil Woolas - New Labour Toady gets does of his own medicine

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