A 2,600-member tribe based in Mashpee, Massachusetts, has been laboring to secure a permanent homeland since before the Revolutionary War, but unless Congress enacts legislation to secure the reservation, or an appellate court reverses a US district court's decision, the Mashpee will once again be virtually homeless.
Since winning the Democratic nomination, Mr. Obama's campaign has labored to secure his standing here.
Here comes irony, the reader dares to hope, only to have that hope crushed under a pile of pleasantries: Sufiya is a poet, an activist, a wonderful hostess; people "labor to secure invitations to her open house" but "do not have to labor hard" because Sufiya, being permanently good-hearted, "likes to meet new people, of every sort".
Murphy, who ran uncontested the last two cycles, aligned himself enough with organized labor to secure the endorsement of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in 2016.
Union leaders recognised this, and entered into the Accord with Bob Hawke's Labor government to secure an increased "social wage" (like Medicare) in return for wage restraint.
The Herculean parental labors expended to secure a child's place in the hereditary meritocracy probably explain why this scandal may blow over quickly, even if it dominated the news for a couple of days.
This has long been true: In years past, there was the "money" primary to lock up key financial backers; the "operative" primary to win over the hottest consultants; the labor primary to secure that key group of Democratic foot soldiers and monetary support, and so on.
In a forthcoming book with Jared Bernstein we show that the ability of the bottom half of the labor force to secure wage gains depends hugely on the level of unemployment.
Labor is projected to secure fewer than fifteen seats in the next election, a thorough humiliation.
When organizations look to overseas labor as a way to secure cheap production costs, the negative effect on sustainability is often high.
In prison I labored secretly for months to secure a forbidden shortwave radio, which I kept hidden in a used milk carton.
