Sentence examples for flood of workers from inspiring English sources

In theory, a flood of workers should be able and willing to pour into Germany, to take advantage of its booming economy and generous social benefits.

The country should prepare for a flood of workers, with plenty of benefits scroungers and a few crooks lurking among the more industrious types.

The widespread destruction of hotels and public housing, combined with the flood of workers who have rushed to the islands to aid in rebuilding, have pushed rents higher, beyond the means of many disaster victims.

Only a smattering of leasing resulted from the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, with the flood of workers from displaced companies mainly going to Midtown Manhattan, the city's other boroughs and New Jersey, areas where many employees already lived.

About that time, retailers and civic groups complained that garment factories kept occupying buildings in prime retail areas, with their floods of workers spoiling the shopping ambiance.

Various explanations have been offered by economists for the failure of labor shortages to give a bigger kick to wages in the record long expansion that started in 1991: weaker unions, the greater use of temporary workers, a minimum wage that has lost value, a flood of immigrant workers, layoffs and job insecurity, global competition.

The Pence-Hutchison compromise has taken heat from conservatives, who say it would be exploited to allow a flood of illegal workers into the country and would still amount to amnesty for undocumented workers.

But last summer's flood of foreign workers forced authorities to drop the system, in effect opening up Sakhalin for tourism.

Some economists assert that the flood of Hispanic workers has flattened wages in an array of low-skilled jobs.

THE catastrophic earthquake that killed perhaps 220,000 people in Haiti in January has brought a flood of aid workers and other outsiders to Port-au-Prince, the capital.

Some questioned the lack of medical equipment for the city while others yelled about the flood of rescue workers who seemed to clog Bam.