Sentence examples for mechanical labour from inspiring English sources

Mechanical labour is more certain, less tiring and altogether more reliable than human labour, and the wise housewife will welcome it as the means of solving her household difficulties and giving her freedom for other interests.

It is a little difficult to see the point Playfair wished to make: "that never at any former period was wheat so cheap, in proportion to mechanical labour as it is at the present time".

The founders of architectural preservation loathed the palace – the combination of skill-free mechanical labour in erecting its prefabricated parts and the machine-made ornamental tapestries and knick-knacks on display so alarmed architectural opinion that it probably helped spark the Arts and Crafts movement, with its often socialistic, workerist conception of expressive craftsmanship.

When challenged, he later amended this to a claim that Williams could only read a text when he could compare it to another one, describing this as "mechanical labour which is paid for at the public libraries at Paris and Berlin at the rate of half a crown a year".

However, insufficient mechanical properties, labour intensive preparation process, long client's visiting times urge us to seek an alternative.

Animal power and machinery are substituted for human labour; mechanical power then replaces animal power.

Introduced by Jacques de Vaucanson and Joseph-Marie Jacquard, the punched cards programmed the mechanical drawboy, saving labour and eliminating errors.

25 The only cause not to show a significant deprivation gap was deaths due to mechanical issues during labour.

Our search identified a second systematic review that compared mechanical methods of labour induction with PGE2, misoprostol, hyaluronidase or placebo [ 30].

Stillbirths relating to mechanical issues during labour were the only specific cause where there was no evidence of a deprivation gap (RR 1.2, 95% CI 0.9 to 1.5).

Table 2 shows stillbirths by cause of death with antepartum deaths of unknown cause being the most common (59.2% (21.3% small for gestational age; 37.9% not small for gestational age)) followed by antepartum haemorrhage (13.0%), maternal disorders (9.1%), congenital anomalies (7.8%), pre-eclampsia (4.2%) and mechanical issues during labour (2.4%).