Sentence examples for labourers by from inspiring English sources

He also imported the first wave of Japanese labourers, by a contract made in 1868.

Most of them had been reduced to landless labourers by market forces and the Enclosure Acts, or driven into the satanic mills of early industrial England.

The two suspects are both Shuar men employed as labourers by EcuaCorriente, and according to Serrano, one was found in possession of Tendetza's mobile phone.

It had issued a decree sacking the Bihar state government for its failure to stem the slaughter of low-caste labourers by private armies of landowners, and imposed direct rule from Delhi.

And, as well as being workers who cut cabbages and painted walls (displacing some British labourers by the simple expedient of turning up on time), they proved to be human beings who settled down and had children.

Aiming to motivate labourers by aligning state and market prices, Kim Jong Il declared that subsidies to state-owned firms would be withdrawn, while farmers could sell any extra produce in small-scale markets.

They get the limelight, they stay in fine hotels – built by labourers, serviced by cleaners.

Originally a labourer by trade, Souleyman pursued music as a sideline, forging his reputation by performing at weddings.

Sulieman Ali, one of Dinar's sons who remained in Darfur, was given a position as a manual labourer by the British, a way to "demote Dinar's family", according to Sudanese historian Abdullah Adam Khatir.

Silver, tin and zinc were first extracted by Quechua labourers forced by the Spanish to work under conditions so horrific that Cerro Rico became known as "the mountain that eats men".

Recently Fairfax Media in Australia published an investigation into the alleged ill-treatment of thousands of construction labourers hired by contractors engaged by the Adani group to build luxury houses on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.