Sentence examples for distant labour from inspiring English sources

Households send the most capable person away to earn money, often in a distant labour market, and to remit.

By placing a family member in a distant labour market, the household gains access to liquidity (through remittances) and income insurance (because of a low correlation between incomes in migrant labour markets and farm production; the correlation between remittances and farm production may even be negative, as when migrants respond to crop failure by increasing the share of earnings they remit).

Corbyn seems so distant from modern Labour.

In Manchester Withington, a Tory seat until 1987, they trail a distant third to Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

While 30 minutes to connect the four cities may appear a distant dream, the Labour peer Lord Adonis said journey times between Manchester and Leeds should be reduced to 40 minutes – from between one and two hours currently – by 2022.

Nuttall's focus on the north is reflected in his selection in key roles of the Mancunian John Bickley – who came a distant second to Labour in the Oldham byelection last December – as immigration spokesman and fellow Liverpudlian Ray Finch, who was appointed housing spokesman.

The Conservatives' Giles Watling came a distant second, with Labour third, the Greens fourth, and the Liberal Democrats falling to fifth.

Hughes got almost 50% of the vote in the constituency in 2010 with Labour a distant second.

As every pager-bearing backbencher knows, media relations are not an obscure function carried out on some distant margin of a Labour minister's empire.

The most recent mayoral opinion poll put Whittle in a distant third place behind Labour frontrunner Sadiq Khan and second placed Conservative Zac Goldsmith with just 7% of first preference votes under the supplementary vote system, followed closely by Sian Berry of the Greens on 6% and Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon on 5%.

The majority (69%) are judged to take distant positions from the labour market and are either exempted from vocational progress and subject to case-first care (37%) or low threshold participation programmes (32%).