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How to use the word labour in a Sentence? Page #7

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U.S. data has remained on the weak side, despite tightness in the labour market. This allows the FOMC (Fed) to remove the patience language and remain dovish in the statement tomorrow, that so much discussion around the economy is still warranted whilst equity price performance marches on toward imperious new highs is clear evidence that assets are out- performing underlying economics.

Nick Lawson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When Labour was in government they were quite supportive of Israeli high-tech in all forms - taxation, grants, export policies, politicians understand that having successful multinationals in Israel is good for the start-up industry.

Yoram Oron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

While the vast majority of workers in Qatar are fairly treated, we recognise that a minority are not. That is why we are reforming labour laws and practices.

Saad Al-Mraikhi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One hypothesis the labour data is putting forward is that employment may now be growing at a pace of almost 300,000 even after the dollar has strengthened considerably. That is clearly above the speed limit, if this continues while labour participation does not increase, the jobless rate will fall to around 4.5 percent by the end of year and the Fed risks falling behind the curve in keeping inflation in check.

Tomoaki Shishido

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If this continues while labour participation does not increase, the jobless rate will fall to around 4.5 percent by the end of year and the Fed risks falling behind the curve in keeping inflation in check.

Tomoaki Shishido

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Boosted by a solid rise in new work, service sector output in India expanded at a robust rate in February ... Nonetheless, the latest improvement in economic prospects across the sector is yet to feed through to the labour market.

Pollyanna De Lima

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They'll try to keep workers conscious of the fact that they're in there for the long haul. I doubt they'll go in and do a clean sheet restructuring. That may help them reduce confrontation in labour management.

Damian Thong

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When money is too easy, people are going to take risks they shouldn't take, i think it would be much better if rather than trying to paper over the fundamental issues, Europe tackled labour market reform and made it easier for people to manage their business.

Aengus Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It takes a huge bite out of Labour leader Ed Miliband's core central economic attack that the recovery has only benefited a small proportion of the population.

Oliver Harvey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even in the most charitable light (the Labour proposal) is going to increase risk, increase uncertainty, increase volatility and, as night follows day, (mean) higher prices for consumer.

Ed Davey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

An extremely positive number could cause some ripples, particularly given the timing of a Fed rate hike, as it would suggest that any slack in the US labour market could disappear faster than anticipated.

Michael Hewson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

An extremely positive number could cause some ripples particularly given the timing of a Fed rate hike, as it would suggest that any slack in the US labour market could disappear faster than anticipated.

Michael Hewson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is nothing less than a once in a generation fight about who our country works for, it is a choice between a Tory plan where only a few at the top can succeed and our public services are threatened. Or a Labour plan that puts working people first, deals with the deficit and protects our NHS.

Ed Miliband

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The initiatives are in the right direction, however, alongside focusing on the quantitative aspect of skilled labour force the policy makers will also need to focus on the qualitative aspect of the skill programmes.

Chetan Ahya

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Before becoming positive on the sector, I would like to see them making efforts to improve productivity, adopt technologies like softwares to optimise logistics networks, cut labour costs and have a sustainable dividend policy, it's a very competitive market, growth prospects are limited and the barrier to entry is not very high. The danger for the market is that Amazon might replicate its experiment across Europe and other online companies such as eBay also launch their own delivery services to cut costs.

Edmund Shing

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Jesus Christ

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10 years ago

What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.

Maxim Gorky

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11 years ago

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

Saadi Shirazi

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12 years ago

He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.

Menander

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing.

Afghan

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12 years ago

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

Victor Hugo

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

C. S. Lewis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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13 years ago

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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