Sentence examples for light labor from inspiring English sources

Once the machines are loaded, they make for light labor.

It's very light labor that shouldn't take much more than a couple of hours.

Will it set back efforts by journalists and activists who seek to bring to light labor conditions in China and elsewhere?

Soon after he took (highly leveraged) ownership of the museum, in 1841, he hired an unemployed man who was seeking alms to do "light labor" and gave him five bricks, one of which would be placed near the museum entrance, three of which would be placed on the three facing street corners, and one of which he'd bring to the next corner.

Competitors, Mr. Driscoll said, have lighter labor restrictions.

Sons and daughters in farm families see no reason to do back‐breaking farm labor for an average annual income of $150 for each family member when they can earn two and three times that much at lighter labor in factories and enjoy the bright lights of a big city.

Thousands of them have found better remuneration and lighter toil it is no uncommon thing for those who, toiling night and day, could earn only one or two dollars per week, to now receive from three to ten dollars per week for operating a sewing machine two-thirds as many hours, and with lighter labor.

Cut to Siberia where, amid the haunting mountains and indigo light, a labor camp officer tells Janusz and hundreds of other accused enemies of the people that (in a somewhat Herzogian, as in Werner, pronouncement) "nature is your jailer, and she is without mercy".

Pendoley says that too often travel programs for young people fall into the trap of "voluntourism," a combination of sightseeing and light manual labor that assuages the first-world guilt of the volunteers but does little to change the structural problems that create poverty in the first place.

The recital hall room fee is $1,170 for a nonprofit group, with additional charges for equipment, lighting and labor.

The prolonged battle to stabilize the power plant has cast a harsh light on the labor practices of an industry that has long relied on informal contract labor for many of its more dangerous and taxing jobs.