Sentence examples for manpower rather than from inspiring English sources

The Chinese hoped to develop labour-intensive methods of industrialization, which would emphasize manpower rather than machines and capital expenditure.

In the capital and the surrounding countryside, it is sheer manpower, rather than machines or fuel, that appears to keep the economy going.

One explanation advanced for the "productivity puzzle" at the heart of Britain's lacklustre recovery is that hiring new people or holding on to old employees has been so cheap that as the good times have returned, it has been easier for firms to boost output by increasing manpower, rather than by investing in innovation and training and working more smartly with the staff they have.

This is a tricky moment for transgender inclusion, though, because the pressure of sequestration-the insane policy where federal lawmakers decided to take a hatchet to the budget in hopes of curbing the deficit-has the military looking to reduce its manpower rather than scrambling for new recruits.

To the extent that local subcontracting takes place, it takes the form of domestic bodyshopping (euphemistically referred to as manpower consultancy services), rather than offsite execution.

Although topics are peripheral in Figure 6, most indicators of manpower and training and manpower development concern nurse training, nurse deployment, and related frontline worker capacity-building themes rather than manpower development themes related to systems strenghening.,, Publications about other manpower issues concerning supervisory or management training are relatively uncommon.

Training, rather than manpower, is the problem in Iraq: there are 50,000 Iraqis suited up as part of the new army, police and civil defense force, but real education has hardly begun.

The attacks on Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan and the Sudanese pharmaceutical factory are a case in point (made easier by the soldiers' ability, after the casualties suffered in Somalia five years ago, to rely on technology rather than manpower).

It has always been the policy to cover manpower deficiencies by paying overtime, rather than increasing the size of the Police Department.

But a senior Kurdish official responsible for defence in Kobane, Ismet Hesen, told the BBC that his forces already had the initiative against IS and they needed heavy weapons rather than extra manpower.

But while these high-profile applications can be and have been useful, Ermolaev seemed more sanguine about the more prosaic applications: a lost child or confused older person, for instance, can be found in a moment's time rather than diverting manpower to painstaking search.