Sentence examples for labour effort from inspiring English sources

In country A (before international trade), the price of cloth ought to be twice that of wine, since a unit of cloth requires twice as much labour effort.

In country B (again, before trade), a cloth unit should cost three times as much as a wine unit, since a unit of cloth requires three times as much labour effort.

All tangible economic activity consists of human beings applying their labour effort to the naturally occurring resources of the planet in order to convert them into things that people need and want.

Subsequent price volatility and peaks put huge pressure on millions of people, many of whom already spent half or more of their incomes and labour effort on getting enough rice, maize or bread.

Meanwhile, a parallel Labour effort to get the vote out, largely led by Brown, started in May. Brown proved throughout the campaign to be every bit the same "clunking fist" (as Tony Blair once put it) that he ever was; bullying and bulldozing his way through, intolerant of failure and incompetence.

The likely shift in student support will encourage Labour effort's to take Morgan's Loughborough seat as well as Hendon, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Lincoln, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, and Brighton Kemptown off the Conservatives, and the marginal seats of Bristol West and Bermondsey and Old Southwark off the Lib Dems.

We tend to think that it has to do with labour, toil, effort.

In the face of retrograde Labour efforts to portray his party as a cabal of moronic toffs, Mr Cameron confessed his posh background and expensive education.

Some have suggested that Labour efforts to hold onto their key marginals could be undermined by resurgent Liberal Democrats splitting the anti-Tory tactical vote.

In the 60s he joined forces with Enoch Powell, with whom he shared the title of best parliamentary orator, to block Labour efforts to reform the Lords – though he wanted it abolished, Powell wanted it left untouched.

After all, Mr Balls had earlier admitted that a decade of costly Labour efforts to save the most vulnerable children from failure has not been successful enough: poor kids on free school meals are still half as likely to get five good grades.