Sentence examples for dockside workers from inspiring English sources

Not far above that industry is the wage rises of the transport, postal and warehousing industry which includes dockside workers.

Built on the eighty years of Chinese immigration since the establishment of British administration and the development of natural resources by the colonial government, Singapore is full of Chinese — laborers, dockside coolies, descendants of indentured workers in Malayan tin mines and plantations, but also merchants and tradesmen, artists, writers.

Striding around a dockside yard where his "decontamination unit" works, he keeps an eye on 11 workers who are stooped over drills, bolts and iron mallets to repair oil-containment booms damaged by waves and strong currents in the gulf.

Dockside cranes would load equipment and supplies.

O: Nay, I'm not dockside for a bathe, Thomas.

He is both a beast of burden, a hard worker who is laid off, and a man of some nobility and patience who labors doggedly to use his severance pay and the sweat of his family to buy a ruined boat, repair it and turn it into a dockside restaurant for fish couscous.

At dockside Martin, alarmed, notices that Colin has no luggage.

"Dracula never ends," he'd told a dockside television crew.

Now more dockside security footage has been released.

So said the barman at the dockside tavern.

Until 1994 the firm, which builds dockside cranes, was a division of Kone lifts in Finland.