Sentence examples for hands-on labor from inspiring English sources

Minton explained this process and, in true Portishead fashion, it involves a massive amount of hands-on labor and specific equipment.

"The safety consciousness of the NASA and contractor work forces, from hands-on labor to top management, continues high," said the nine-member committee and its consultants.

A sort of irony seemed to be at play here, he said: the tendency to wrongly dichotomize knowledge and skill, "intellectual" work versus "hands-on" labor, seemed to be getting recapitulated at an institutional level.

Slot cars, which drivers control with a hand-held throttle, go fast — some upward of 100 miles per hour — but getting them to that point demands slow, intensive, hands-on labor.

Finally, some methods for rapid microbial enumeration require more hands-on labor than does the plate count method.

And in what could be taken as a hands-on, labor-intensive simulation of Google Earth omniscience, the Japanese artist Sohei Nishino constructs giant maps of major cities — New York, Jerusalem — by puzzling together thousands of fragments of on-location photographs that he shoots while walking those cities, block by block.

They began hands-on history on Labor Day weekend, as they planned, even though other projects kept them from starting to work on it before July.

The work is hands-on, site-specific labor that cannot be outsourced overseas, and employs skills that any experienced construction worker or HVAC installer can acquire with minimal training.

A.I. -- A hands-on Steven Spielberg project.

In law, though, it is all mental work (reading and writing) not the hands-on kind of routine labor I did in science.

Neurosurgeons, whom Dr. Firlik describes as "part scientist, part mechanic," do manual labor, the hands-on work of opening the skull and cutting out tumors or cysts.