Sentence examples for hand labour from inspiring English sources

Cultivation is in small "gardens," maintained by a great expenditure of hand labour.

This difference allows lower land value, less hand labour, and lower handling cost.

Every means is exploited to reduce, facilitate, or eliminate hand labour.

Animals were not domesticated, and all work was done by human hand labour directed by an elite group.

To reduce hand labour costs, larger commercial fruit growers use machine pruning on many types of fruits.

On the one hand, Labour wants to present itself as a party of government that is confident of winning.

By showing that sound economics and good social policy go hand-in-hand, Labour can not only sidestep the Tories' political trap on housing, we can speak for the centre ground that Cameron's right to buy proves he has rejected.

Although population growth in Tory constituencies still outpaces Labour's in some regions, the heavily populated south has been swelling at a quicker rate, handing Labour constituencies a national population gain overall.

In last year's general election, nearly seven out of 10 participated, handing Labour its biggest ever victory in the constituency, surpassing the figure chalked up in the landslide year of 1997 by nearly 10 percentage points.

If the students' political engagement converts into votes at the ballot box, it's easy to see them handing Labour back a seat it had previously held for 18 years.

And then there is the shadow economy: everything from cash-in-hand labour to corruption to illegal activities.