Sentence examples for had labored on from inspiring English sources

Surely the men who had labored on these boats would have approved of mechanical aid.

Separately, the Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the Workers Partyy, recently reported that Kim had "labored on," visiting various facilities braving the hot summer weather.

Mr. Obama was flanked by a large retinue of advisers — many of whom had labored on Middle East peace talks in the Clinton administration — as he made his way by motorcade from Jerusalem to the West Bank city of Ramallah, and by helicopter here to the city of Sderot, which has been repeatedly struck by Palestinian rockets fired from nearby Gaza.

Many people from the local community attended the dedication, including some who had labored on the project, as well as others from United States churches who supported the effort.

In the mid-1990s, he became celebrated in Asia for a buttery yellow glaze that he and his wife had labored on for more than a decade.

At the event, he was reported to have "labored on," while "braving" the hot summer weather, giving way to a torrent of chatter that some mystery ailment had befallen Dear Leader.

Mr. Denari, a Los Angeles architect who once ran the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has labored on the profession's periphery for decades.

Like Jane Addams (1931), the pioneering Chicago social worker, Carter, in his house-building work for Habitat for Humanity, has labored on behalf of the poor, face to face and with his own hands.

The Metropolitan Opera, meanwhile, has labored on with its 13-year-old production of Wagner's "Ring," splendidly sung and played, and couched, to the consternation of many, in a misty photo-realism all its own.

For the last quarter-century Mr. Lenat has labored on an artificial-intelligence system named Cyc that he claimed would some day be able to answer questions posed in spoken or written language — and to reason.

A compelling, crushing addition (and, sadly, a subtraction) is "When Breath Becomes Air," by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon of immense promise who died of lung cancer, in March, at the age of thirty-seven, having labored on a memoir that stands as a manifesto for the genre, pressing readers to look at the impending darkness.