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the labours
noun
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
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I hope mine doesn't – the labours of that alter ego.
SuperKamiokande too was the result of the labours - intellectual, physical and political - of hundreds, probably thousands, of physicists and engineers.
Its unflinching realism – its patient delineation of the labours of killing, dismembering, dragging – eventually becomes a kind of nightmare surrealism.
But that may prove to be like the labours of King Cnut, a monarch who, legend has it, thought he could hold back the incoming tides.
Such are the tales of more than one sack of Troy, which are supported by archaeological evidence, and the labours of Heracles, which might suggest Mycenaean feudalism.
This weekend expect something similar in all three matches with forced errors decisive and rapid attacks living off the labours of aggressive defence.
The wealth of Britain was built on the labours of the North, but I know that those associations aren't there for everyone.
Most advances are based on the labours of previous generations: you need electricity to run computers and reliable communications for modern health care, for instance.
The politics of death Reprints Related items Health reform: The labours of SisyphusAug 20th 2009A slim majority of Americans support Obamacare.
These texts owe their preservation mainly to the labours of upper-caste men, especially Brahmans, and often reveal far too little about the perspectives of others.
Although the version claimed to be "truly and purely translated into English," it was in reality a combination of the labours of Tyndale and Coverdale.
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