Sentence examples for wet labor from inspiring English sources
NEW ORLEANS — The remnants of what was once Tropical Storm Lee, a slow-moving but extremely wet system that lumbered its way onto the Louisiana coast on Sunday, were still bringing high winds and rains to the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, leaving a wet Labor Day but less damage than had been feared.
Investment of labor in wet taro fields appears to have been a late prehistoric activity in most island groups, fueled by population increase and the need for intensification of production (Kirch 2010; Spriggs 2011).
Shifting cultivation under conditions of periodic stress was the real recipe for expansion and land taking, not cropping from highly valuable and labor-intensive wet fields.
But few existing dry cleaners were inclined to switch because "wet cleaning" takes longer, increases labor costs and can easily lead to shrinkage or other quality problems.
Once scholars debated whether the distinctive labor conditions of wet rice explained the better condition of women in Southeast Asia (Goldschmidt and Kunkel 1971; Moore 1973; Winzeler 1974) but that thought disappeared once gender became culturally constructed.
The weather was cold and wet, a perfect winter weekend for laboring over the dish.
Alex and I sat down in the shade of a palm, where the ground wasn't too wet, and we slowly enjoyed my labor of love, cooking, and law breaking.
The flipside is that they have to be willing to do manual labor in cold, hot, or wet conditions, and they often work weekends and holidays.
They represent wet weekends in Scunthorpe and men who have manual-labored themselves into the sort of retardation that renders them unfit to look after small children.
Although more labor intensive and costlier than the more familiar wet harvesting, it is gentler on the fruit.
