Sentence examples for surfeit of labour from inspiring English sources

The grain meant to be handed out as a substitute for a mid-day meal never appears.One of Bihar's biggest difficulties is its surfeit of labour.

A surfeit of land, a labour shortage, low rents, and high wages, which had prevailed throughout the early 15th century as a consequence of economic depression and reduced population, were replaced by a land shortage, a labour surplus, high rents, and declining wages.

I'd describe it as—I mean people are worried," here she listed off the worries, a litany of Labour's perceived faults lack of policy detail, surfeit of taxation, lower immigration meaning fewer people to build the sorely needed houses.

A surfeit of influence from this quarter is blamed by some Labour reformers for the party's sullen approach to academies and free schools, which are opposed by most teaching unions.Mr Miliband's job is complicated by presiding over a party still bruised by the leadership contest which saw him fight his more Blairite brother David for control.

This is a pressure-cooker world fuelled by a surfeit of masculinity, one in which the values of hard manual labour, Calvinist austerity and cruel machismo have no counterpart in the "feminine" qualities of empathy, fertility and compassion.

with a surfeit of death.

However, they have a surfeit of patients.

But a surfeit of awards may backfire.

The surfeit of odors made one giddy.

But there is a surfeit of villains.

And New York offered a surfeit of candidates.