Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?" - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species.
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"For the 30 years that we struggled to rebuild the country, we were blessed with high-quality workmanship and great discipline," said Masao Kamei, 84, the chairman of Sumitomo Electric Industries and a senior adviser to past governments.
Sleek, powerful and stylish, it was the product of technical research rather than just high-quality workmanship and as revolutionary in its way as Henry Ford's Model T had been 20 years before.
Deciding in 2002 to venture out on her own, she started a clothing line in Florence, where she would have access to Tuscan mills, high-quality workmanship and the fashion world.
These same studies have concluded that prevailing wage laws result in more local hiring, job growth across all economic sectors, safer worksites, higher quality workmanship and productivity, less spending on materials and fuels, and less poverty amongst blue collar construction workers.
"When you do a mysterious double tourbillon, the most exquisite pieces ever created by Cartier, you need a high level of workmanship in line with these high complications," said Thierry Lamouroux, head of watch marketing at Cartier International.
Although a high level of workmanship is manifest in Ming decorative arts such as cloisonné, enamelware, bronze, lacquerwork, and furniture, the major achievements in art were in painting and pottery.
Inlaid cloisonné jewelry reached an especially high standard of workmanship in Britain, as is shown by a purse lid, a sword, and jewelry from the cenotaph (monument honouring a dead person whose body lies elsewhere) to a 7th-century East Anglian king discovered at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk (British Museum).
Xanthos has 43 monumental tombs of which 17 are sculptured and 35 are pillar tombs, usually to a high standard of workmanship.
