Sentence examples for handful of labor from inspiring English sources

But where the president's council typically consists of academic economists, Mr. Cuomo — who has been open about his desire to see the business community play a more active role in Albany affairs — largely tapped chief executives and other prominent business leaders from New York, along with a handful of labor leaders.

"You've got a handful of labor and consumer lobbyists going against hundreds of industry lawyers.

Because labor unions are required to file certain disclosure forms with the Department of Labor about their spending, CPI could confirm that a handful of labor unions contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization.

In its 50-year history, the tour has been marred by a handful of labor disputes and tragedy, including the death in 1986 of a park employee who was run over by the tram during a special "Halloween Horror Night" show.

Several union leaders said they hoped they could block the nomination by winning the support of all the Democrats in the Senate, which is divided 50-50, and a handful of labor-friendly Republicans.

Instead, the Solidarity Center focused on a handful of newer labor federations and nonprofit groups led by younger labor leaders.

But the 27-member council — made up mostly of corporate executives, along with a handful of investors, labor leaders and academics — has indulged in outrageous special pleading, with its assault on Sarbanes-Oxley, the antifraud law passed in 2002 in response to Enron, WorldCom and the dot-com bust.

Tom Barrett, who had lost the governor's race to Walker in 2010, didn't announce his candidacy until late March, his entry pitting Democrat against Democrat, his handful of union endorsements pitting labor against labor.

But because business has shrunk, in recent months only a handful of workers have labored in small pools of light in an otherwise dark expanse of shadowed machinery.

With just a handful of weeks left before Labor Day, the battle for Song Of The Summer is dead and buried.

A handful of workers recently filed labor-law complaints against the company with the state labor department, though a subsequent inspection of the company by officials found that the company was in compliance with minimum-wage laws, Murphy notes.