Sentence examples for heavy spade work from inspiring English sources

I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.

"There's been enough spade work where during Thursday's meeting, things came into much more focus," he said.

Nevertheless, months of spade work with council members had secured the necessary votes.

This Bush team has done no such hands-on spade work.

He added that he hadn't done the kind of spade work required of prospective presidential candidates here.

Legal conservatives have to some degree reaped the rewards of the spade work done by this older generation of academic political philosophers.

Our supervisors must learn to respect us people on the ground because we are the ones doing the spade work.

Comblin promoted what he called the "theology of the spade," working with the rural poor and forming grassroots "base communities".

A post hole digger or a narrow spade works best.

It can be hard and heavy work.

One was hand dug by an army of men bearing shovels and spades working deep underground in high-risk conditions.