Sentence examples for laboured to raise from inspiring English sources

For months, lawyers, bankers, advisers and construction chiefs laboured to raise cash for the extension and upgrade of the M80 motorway, one of the busiest roads in Scotland.

By 2015, the bank estimates, Amazon will sell 28%.Booksellers are labouring to raise their profile online and win back the customers they have lost.

Any attempt to undermine unions hurts the Democratic Party, which relies on organised labour to raise money and knock on doors at election time.

That promise headed off a campaign by her formidable predecessor, Barbara Castle, for Labour to raise the basic pension in line with earnings, and not, as has happened since 1979, just with prices.

Grant Shapps, the Conservative chairman, has dismissed a call from a cross-party select committee suggesting councillors should receive higher pay as a "cynical and sleazy move" by Labour to raise funds for the party.

Some senior party figures had wanted these messages highlighted alongside the NHS in the Heywood campaign, and would also now like Labour to raise openly in Europe questions about the long-term challenge posed by the free movement of unskilled labour across the EU.

Alan Jarrett, deputy leader of Medway Council, said that for Labour to raise the issue now was "bizarre" and "political point-scoring".

Ofsted started statutory inspections of all local authorities in England two-and-a-half years ago as part of Labour's drive to raise school standards, and has now inspected around half of them - 75 in total.

Ed Miliband has pledged Labour to raising wages – but I suspect someone has told him this will happen anyway because of the recovery, with a nudge from minimum wage rates.

We know that if elected Labour planned to raise VAT.

Labour pledges to raise the minimum wage to £8 per hour and the Greens to £10.