Sentence examples for labour interest from inspiring English sources

In economics, profit is the excess over the returns to capital, land, and labour (interest, rent, and wages).

Labour's great achievement in 1945 and again in 1966 was to stand not just for the Labour interest, but for the progressive conscience.

His careful leadership of labour interests earned Gompers a reputation for conservatism.

Mr Blunkett, who stood down this morning, said that a win for a majority Conservative government would see Labour interests sidelined and stifled by Tory policies.

His long tenure as president of the combined AFL-CIO made him the leading spokesman for American labour interests, and he used his power vigorously.

The industrial and labour interests linked with coal are far more powerful than those on the cutting edge of green energy.

Poland has typically backed domestic labour interests--the coal industry provides roughly 100,000 jobs--over EU climate policies, even vetoing the EU's Low Carbon 2050 Roadmap and the Doha Amendment under its new president, Andrzej Duda.

It is in Labour's interest.

After the 1945 Labour landslide, interest in electoral reform was minimal.

"It was greatly in Labour's interest, once the Tory party had accepted so much of Labour's programme as unalterable, that the Tory party should be preserved against the danger of dissolution," Hitchens writes.

The community development approach of Sure Start was also consistent with broader principles central to New Labour's interest in modernizing government, including the view that public services should be user not provider driven, evidence based, joined up, and innovative.