Sentence examples for resources and labour from inspiring English sources

The planters received some compensation (£19 per slave) but generally saw their financial resources and labour forces dwindle.

Only reluctantly did he accept the provisions of the 1917 constitution establishing basic reforms in landownership, control of natural resources, and labour and social legislation.

Command systems, on the other hand, are marked by their capacity to mobilize resources and labour in ways far beyond the reach of traditional societies, so that societies with command systems typically boast of large-scale achievements such as the Great Wall of China or the Egyptian pyramids.

He pays particular attention to mechanisms of social flexibility (sharing of resources and labour) that link the productive economy and ecology.

The trade, natural resources and labour that could be gleaned from Britain's colonies turned it into a rich nation.

Following the announcement that Australia was purchasing a British-built cruiser, there was criticism, primarily from the Opposition of the day, stating that such a warship should be built using Australian resources and labour.

For this purpose, we have developed the model FARMSIM, a dynamic bio-economic model for analysis and exploration of trade-offs in resource and labour allocation in heterogeneous smallholder farms.

This result is not surprising since stratification and inequality usually appear in areas where there are alternative forms of resource and labour acquisition, such as access to land rights, permanent wells or dams, and cash (Dahl and Hjort 1976).

These articles are not able to resolve this dilemma, but they do illustrate the real world difficulty in deciding when and where to deploy a promising new technology at the bedside when that technology is hard to test scientifically and its use is both resource and labour intensive.

It shows that authoritarians of all stripes share the same vices, and not just because you know without needing to wait for their careers to "progress" that today's repressive student union politicians will be tomorrow's repressive human resources managers and Labour home secretaries.

From the Norman conquest of Ireland in the 12th century, the English began imagining themselves as the new Romans, persuading themselves they were as duty-bound to civilise "backward" tribes as they were destined to exploit their resources, land and labour.