Sentence examples for profitable labour from inspiring English sources

And they need to question whether they are focusing more on creating a profitable labour force than they are on ensuring the well-being of their students.

It was Oglethorpe's plan to transport imprisoned debtors to Georgia, where they could rehabilitate themselves by profitable labour and make money for the proprietors in the process.

Subsidies have caused Mexican farmers to stick to maize instead of switching to more profitable and labour-intensive crops, such as fruit and vegetables, Mr Serra argues.

The MP, who was until recently the parliamentary private secretary to Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, suggested it was not profitable to ask Labour MPs to keep repeating the same slogans.

Instead of regulating these sectors properly, taxpayers' money has been used to augment inadequate pay in the form of tax credits to low-paid UK and EU workers – introduced by Labour – subsidising profitable businesses with corporate welfare.

We once had to ask ourselves whether a company that could only remain profitable by employing child labour should be allowed to exist.

The binding of young children suggests that very juvenile labour was profitable for masters, or at least that any disadvantages were outweighed by the long period of their service.

Critics say the programme is providing free labour for large profitable companies while being of little benefit to the individual concerned.

But he quickly shed unprofitable, mostly domestic routes, increased service on profitable ones and cut the labour force.He also started to use wet leasing (the industry's equivalent of hiring temporary workers and aircraft along with them).

Mr Osborne was encouraged to think that he could make this politically profitable for the Tories by Labour's earlier, and continuing, confusion about whether or not it supports the £26,000 cap on annual benefit payments to a family.

They also included the stewards of a vast "black economy", accounting for 15-20% of the total, which politicians were loth to interfere with because it was Italy's most dynamic and profitable sector (unsurprisingly, since its labour costs were so low).