Sentence examples for brief labor from inspiring English sources

In 1904 John Christian Watson led the first, brief Labor cabinet, followed by George Houston Reid's conservative free-trade ministry.

Whichever way the next government goes, the election represents a failure for Ms Gillard, who had called it in hopes of cementing a brief Labor surge in the weeks after she became prime minister.

The government entered the opening week without producing the legislation for the omnibus savings bill, but on Monday evening, the treasurer's office moved to brief Labor and crossbenchers about the contents of the bill.

But in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that softening passenger demand combined with a brief labor disruption at Kennedy Airport and winter storms in the Northeast and Dallas would result in "a modest loss".

SAN FRANCISCO--Graduate student labor organizers at University of California (UC) campuses, still fired up from their brief labor strike in December, say a recent state board ruling leaves university administrators only two choices: recognize the grad student labor union or disobey the law.

During the brief labor-hungry economic boom that followed, workers were brought here from the Islamic crescent across the Mediterranean.

In an amicus brief, sympathetic labor lawyers at Segal Roitman, LLP, wrote, "If the test for extortion is whether the employer welcomed the pressure, labor protests would have been criminalized long ago".

In brief, the labor of knowledge workers, like that of industrial workers, is also considered to make a crucial contribution to China's socialist construction; and therefore, knowledge workers engaged in education, science and technology, and medical services, including media workers, are an indispensible part of the working class (Zhu 1994; Chang 1998).

At that briefing, one labor representative said, she told them that labor had not been included in the bill but suggested it was best for them to remain quiet on the matter.

Men whose rebellious but hazy longings have enticed them into a hurricane of small, shallow adventures and brief, prosaic labors, and two-fisted repudiations of thought, are not apt to find themselves until some sudden catastrophe places them almost upon their backs and veritably forces them to peer into their minds and their hearts.

They need, in brief, pro-labor policies that have been overlooked for decades, with devastating results: from 1979 to 2012, typical workers saw wage increases of just 5 percent, despite productivity growth of nearly 75 percent, while wage gains for low-wage workers were flat or declined.