Sentence examples for were labor from inspiring English sources

Keene's parents were labor organizers.

There were labor problems and low-cost competitors.

"If I were labor right now, I wouldn't risk my future on a failed California governor".

The son of a Jewish mother and an African-American father who were labor organizers in Michigan, Dr. McAdoo was also a civil rights activist, writer and musician.

Before the 1973 war, 62percentt of Israelis born in Asia and Africa were Labor backers; afterward, that figure plummeted to 43percentt.

So when N.H.L. owners speak wistfully of old-time hockey, what they really mean is old-time economics — when the boys were labor, not talent.

Others are notable because they were labor-intensive.

Just under half the audience reported leaning more towards Liberal, and just under 40% said they were Labor-leaning.

Those were labor-saving methods, and no one but the most stubborn Luddite would want to abandon them.

Although seismic tomography has been used for many years in the oil industry, until recently its practicality in the mining industry has been limited because the processes involved interfered with mining productivity and were labor-intensive in terms of data collection and interpretation.

Moreover, the capital/labor ratios were pretty similar in both cities: both men's clothing in Chicago and "dressing" (vestido y tocador) in Buenos Aires had about 750 dollars per worker in capital, which suggests that both industries were labor-intensive and using relatively similar technologies.