Sentence examples for labour diversion from inspiring English sources

I am suggesting that now, in what one hopes are the death throes of the New Labour diversion, we have an opportunity to slough off totalitarian management, solve our problems in a creative way and let joy replace fear in our national broadcaster.

Horrific as it was, with its cannibalism and people eating mud in search of sustenance, the famine generated by the Great Leap's failure and the diversion of labour from farming was only part of a saga of oppression, cruelty and lies on a gargantuan scale.

In many cases, this will result in diversion of labour from other activities, including domestic work, home gardening, child care and regular preparation of well-balanced meals.

The inefficiency of the communes and the large-scale diversion of farm labour into small-scale industry disrupted China's agriculture seriously, and three consecutive years of natural calamities added to what quickly turned into a national disaster; in all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.

Her completion was greatly delayed by labour troubles and by the diversion of the 12-inch (305 mm) guns intended for her to expedite completion of HMS Dreadnought, and she was not finally completed until June 1908, six months before her sister Lord Nelson.

(Labour dismisses the proposal as a diversion).National will make its election pitch on its past record particularly its management of the economy and on keeping the Greens out of power.

The media will have a juicy Labour civil war to report as a diversion from trying to explain the complexities of withdrawal from the EU.

Now infighting over leadership in both the Labour and Conservative parties has become the best diversion.

The bad news for Labour is that this may prove only a temporary diversion.

But Unite and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions claim these are side issues, if not diversions, believing it is purely down to labour costs.

The report concludes: "The legacy of job loss [after the miners' strike] continued to be substantial unemployment and in particular a very large diversion of working-age men out of the labour market into 'economic inactivity', often on incapacity benefits".