Sentence examples for as they labor from inspiring English sources

Now, as they labor to protect what remains, Chinese preservationists are facing a new, equally insidious threat: gentrification.

It is the first day in an assault on the Taliban-held Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2009, and the Marines look both battle hardened and battle weary as they labor in futility to save their buddy.

His decision to go through with the procedure follows some intense debate about its pros and cons with his best friend, Angelo (Mr. Buscemi), as they labor on a bridge over the East River.

Still, watching Ong work in the cramped open kitchen is fascinating: there's barely enough room for him and a sous-chef as they labor feverishly back to back, with only a pint-size convection oven and a single brûlée torch between them.

It will be up to Mr. Boehner to convince his members that extending the cut —  and at least appearing to work with Democrats even as they labor to unseat Mr. Obama and the Democrats who still control the Senate — will ultimately work in their political favor.

In an office complex in Herndon, Va., more than 100 pilots and other executives of the Air Line Pilots Association have spent the last two weeks eating cold pizza and sleeping in shifts on rickety cots as they labor round the clock to come up with a list of safety recommendations to present to federal regulators.

Both groups sang work songs as they labored in the fields; for both, such songs moderated the pace of labor.

But none topped the spirited tap-dancing of Clinton-bashers as they labored to draw fine distinctions between White House and Gracie Mansion infidelities.

As they labored through spring training in Florida, the Mets declared again and again how impatient they were for the games to count.

But, having drained his poor Knopf editors of their precious bodily fluids as they labored to excavate the book from him, the former president was playing the statesman -- or maybe just trying not to turn off Republican readers.

Welders in their "high-viz" — reflective, high-visibility yellow mining shirts — spent months drenched in sweat as they labored outside through long summers in coastal desert heat reaching 110 degrees.