Sentence examples for small labour from inspiring English sources

The Conservatives could well make gains in Lib Dem seats like Eastbourne and Portsmouth South, countering any small Labour gains.

After working briefly as a newspaper reporter, he began a movement in 1911 to combine the many small labour unions that had sprung up with Japan's burgeoning industrialization.

The beginning of "Houses and Small Labour Parties", a lovely social realist story, is entirely mangled; elsewhere a missing "s" gives us the "Edinburgh lums".

The two likeliest outcomes in that year's general election are a small Labour majority or a small Conservative majority (coalitions are never likely in Britain, despite what everybody in Westminster seems to believe, and even less so in 2015 because the Liberal Democrats will probably lose seats).

Sure, there are other events where the Leftfield could find a home – the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival, the Women Chainmakers festival, the Burston School Strike Rally to name a few – but these are relatively small labour movement gatherings and people would be quick to accuse us of preaching to the converted.

The presumption is that it's an outrider (indeed other polls conducted at the same time show small Labour leads), but regardless of whether this is the start of a trend towards a Tory "crossover" or just a one-off poll, it's clear that Labour's campaign could still do with sharpening up.

Small labour-of-love shops are sprouting up again.

Because of the hazards of disease and pests, most of the world's cacao is grown on small labour-intensive farms of less than two hectares (five acres) instead of large plantations through which these hazards can rapidly spread.

Others, however, argued that long-term improvement depended on the economic growth that would flow from policies designed to encourage large-scale investment rather than small-scale labour-intensive developments.

Worker-management (except for small-scale, labour- intensive operations) puts workers at excessive risk and cuts the firm off from the capital markets, since outside investors know the workers can vote themselves higher wages out of profits.

They are almost certain to be heading into a smaller Labour contingent in the Commons.