Sentence examples for pressing labour from inspiring English sources

The bill entered parliament at a time in which the number of people claiming asylum in the UK was rapidly rising and the Conservatives were pressing Labour with accusations that Britain was a "soft touch" for "bogus" asylum seekers.

"If we fail to act, if we fail to tackle the youth jobs crisis, long-term unemployment, high drop-out rates and other pressing labour market issues, we will be destroying hopes for sustainable growth – and sowing the seeds of further, and perhaps deeper social unrest," he said.

Mental illness is a pressing labour market issue.

With a general election only a month away, the opposition has inevitably dismissed Mr Hartz's recommendations as a gimmick, too costly, and irrelevant to Germany's more pressing labour-market requirements.

The Labour leadership is understood to be pressing for Labour MPs to abstain on the grounds that the party's policy is under review and the real vote on Trident will come in the "maingate" decision next year.

As well as pressing Cameron, the Labour leader called for a cleanup of Britain's overseas territories and dependencies, including the British Virgin Islands, which accounts for about half the companies named in the Panama Papers.

Miliband said the prime minister had failed to prove definitively that the Assad regime was responsible for the attack as he intensified the pressure on Cameron by pressing an alternative Labour amendment to a vote.

Neither seems ready to talk about the sort of labour and capital market deregulation which proved so successful in Britain, for example, and which the European Union has committed itself to as part of the Lisbon process, aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive region by 2010.Mr Schröder has, finally, shown signs of being ready to tackle the pressing need for labour-market reform.