Laborers Sentence Examples

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  • It proved impossible to carry out the scheme; the laborers were too many and too cunning to be crushed.

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  • I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.

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  • In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.

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  • In June and July 1907 there were again disturbances among the agricultural laborers of Ferrala and Rovigo, and a widespread strike organized by the leg/fe throughout those provinces caused very serious losses to all concerned.

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  • In some cases there was foundation for the laborers claims, but unfortunately the movement got into the hands of professional agitators and common swindlers, and the leader, a certain Giampetruzzi, who at one time seemed to be a worthy colleague of Marcelin Albert, was afterwards tried and condemned for having cheated his own followers.

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  • Conflicts occurred between the strikers and the independent laborers and the police; the trouble spread to the city of Parma, where violent scenes occurred when the labor exchange was occupied by the troops, and many soldiers and policemen, whose behaviour as usual was exemplary throughout, were seriously wounded.

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  • There was a very slight decline in the number of child laborers both in city and country, their total number in 1905 being 159,899 and in 1900 161,276.

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  • In some respects this expectation was not deceived; the years that followed 1360 seem to have been prosperous at home, despite the continued friction arising from the Statute of Laborers.

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  • In the districts which took arms two main causes of insurrection may be differentiated; the first and the most widespread was the discontent of the rural population with the landowners and the Statute of Laborers.

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  • In the countryside the insurrection was accompanied by wholesale burnings of manor-rolls, the hunting down of unpopular bailiffs and landlords, and a special crusade against the commissioners of the poll-tax and the justices who had been enforcing the Statute of Laborers.

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  • On the meeting of the new parliament Lord Salisburys government was defeated on an amendment to the address, demanding facilities for agricultural laborers to obtain small holdings for gardens and pasturethe policy, in short, which was described as three acres and a cow.

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  • The peasants, no less than the industrial laborers, suffered from the absence of any capital laid by, which alone could have enabled them to improve their land or to face a time of bad harvests.

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  • The first a near post left foot bender from the Laborers skipper.

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  • The machine turns up the roots and the laborers, in a line, bend down to fill their wicker creels (baskets ).

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  • A small army of laborers with horse-drawn carts built a dam, which extended 175 feet into the solid rock.

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  • However, only common laborers wore denim at all.

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  • The accommodation was a wooden bunk in the back of a lorry, shared with two other clowns and four rather grimy tattooed laborers.

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  • It also imperils tens of thousands of farmers, field hands and migrant laborers.

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  • Matthew 20 records a parable Jesus told about a householder who hired laborers for his vineyard.

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  • By contrast, private firms remained adamant in their dismissal of claims by former forced laborers.

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  • This is especially true with respect to the struggling members of society, including laborers, farmers, fishermen, and the unemployed.

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  • There were nine farmers employing 85 laborers and thirty eight small holders, employing no laborers.

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  • He agreed to pay the laborers a penny for the day, which were evidently the regular wages for the ordinary laborer.

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  • Also present are between 50 and 100 Batwa families who live as landless laborers following their eviction from the forest in 1964.

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  • With respect to forced laborers, we have a much larger number.

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  • Others are farmers, fishermen, and unskilled laborers.

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  • Wages were no better than those offered to agricultural laborers.

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  • How many foreign laborers are working in Taiwan, and what rights and protection do they have?

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  • Siemens was charged with extensive use of slave laborers.

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  • Most child laborers can be considered to be wage slaves.

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  • He became parish Surveyor, and when required, measured the land for farmers and laborers in Wrangle and the adjacent parishes.

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  • Then the big work started, with several gangs of laborers digging deep pits at timed intervals.

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  • They are most common in the north and centre, a circumstance which shows them to be promoted less by the more backward and more ignorant peasants than by the better-educated laborers of Lombardy and Emilia, among whom, Socialist organizations are widespread.

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  • Gardeners and farm laborers convey spores from one bed or field to another; carted soil, manure, &c., may abound in spores of Smuts, Fusarium, Polyporei and in sclerotia; and articles through the post and so forth often carry infective spores.

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  • I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a staple production of the South.

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  • On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers--this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.

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  • On several of the hills are quarries of slate of good quality, the working of which affords remunerative employment to many laborers.

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  • The modern laborers may be free, but they may also still have something of the servile mentality.

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  • You are linked to the Christian children in Colombia who have seen their parents murdered and been taken captive as slave laborers and soldiers.

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  • Landowners are eligible for compensation, but there is no relief for thousands of poor landless laborers who tilled the earth.

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  • Surely laborers in the south did not really have to eat wheaten bread.

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  • I avoid spending money at companies that practice unethical business methods, such as employing child laborers.

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  • It could be argued that laborers have less incentive to work hard when under a rule of communism.

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  • Trying to save money by using day laborers or under the table workers often leads to disaster and expensive home repair costs.

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  • Although this seems simple, you'll have to evaluate your cutting and layout strategies relative to how many laborers will be working on the project.

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  • All men, except for laborers, wore three-piece suits every day.

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  • The hats were so completely associated with laborers that anyone above that class preferred to keep a wide berth.

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  • Laborers often wore wooden shoes to protect their feet.

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  • It ensures a healthier baby, a healthier environment, and healthier laborers.

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  • According to Nepal Vista, the primary sources of income in the country are, "tourism, agriculture, and Nepalese laborers working in foreign countries."

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  • These loans and grants are intended to buy, build, improve or repair housing for farm laborers.

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  • The laborers might be engaged in on-farm processing or even in aquaculture.

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  • Funds may also be used in urban areas for nearby farm laborers.

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  • Anyone with construction experience can write these articles, from laborers to foremen and contractors.

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  • For example, laborers may wear yellow hats while supervisors wear white.

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  • No one here knew how to plant crops, but the next town over was made up of farm laborers.

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  • The movement of emigration may be divided into two currents, temporary and permanentthe former going chiefly towards neighboring European countries and to North Africa, and consisting of manual laborers, the latter towards trans-oceanic countries, principally Brazil, Argentina and the United States.

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  • They are composed principally of peasants, unskilled workmen and other manual laborers.

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  • Millet, however, is still cultivated in the north of Italy, and is used as bread for agricultural laborers, and as forage when mixed with buckwheat (Sorghum saccaratum).

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  • The terms of agrarian contracts and leases (except in districts where mezzadria prevails in its essential form), are in many regions disadvantageous to the laborers, who suffer from the obligation to provide guarantees for payment of rent, for repayment of seed corn and for the division of products.

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  • In Emilia the day laborers, known as disobbligati, earn, on the contrary, low wages, out of which they have to provide for shelter and to lay by something against unemployment.

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  • Yet in some Tusban provinces, as, for instance, that of Grosseto, where malaria rages, laborers are organized in gangs under corporals, who undertake harvest work.

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  • The condition of Sicilian laborers is also miserable.

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  • The landlords on their part organized an agrarian union to defend their interests and enrolled numbers of non-union laborers to carry on the necessary work and save the crops.

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  • It has merely caused great bitterness among the Polish peasants, and the effect on the population is also counteracted by the fact that the large proprietors in purely German districts continue to import Polish laborers to work on their estates.

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  • In the mass they were a body of patient laborers, tilling a rich soil, and hating all foreign lands and ways.

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  • We read in a papyrus of a strike of starving laborers in the Theban necropolis who would not work until corn was given to them, and apparently the government storehouse was empty at the time, perhaps in consequence of a bad Nile.

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  • By dismissing their servants in order to reduce expenditure, they have thrown great numbers of men out of employment, while many laborers and workmen are living very poorly and often suffer want.

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  • This was followed up by the famous Laborers.

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  • Statute of Laborers of 135f, which fixed rates for all wages practically identical with those of the times before the Black Death.

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  • But enough oldfashioned landlords remained to keep up the struggle with the peasants to the end of the 14th century and beyond, an.d the number of times that the Statute of Laborers was re-enacted and recast was enormous.

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  • There is a bare mention of the Statute of Laborers in Jack Cades ably drafted chapter of complaints.

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  • The roads, which it was decided to make, were blocked by the laborers employed upon them, and by the stones, which the laborers were supposed to crush for their repair.

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  • The condition of the numerous agricultural laborers (who constitute one-third of the population) is, except in some regions, hard, and in places absolutely miserable.

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  • One consequence of the agrarian agitations was the increased use of machinery and the reduction in the number of hands employed, which if it proved advantageous to the landlord and to the few laborers retained, who received higher wages, resulted in an increase of unemployment.

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  • The landless laborers, who might have been hired to supply the deficiency, were so reduced in numbers that they could command, if free competition prevailed, double and triple rates of payment, compared with their earnings in the days before the plague.

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  • In Liguria, on account of the comparative rarity of large estates, agricultural laborers are in a better condition.

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  • In Tuscany, however, the prevalence of mezzadria, properly so called, has raised the laborers position.

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  • Com posed mainly of elements drawn from the Left, and dependent for a majority upon the support of the subversive groups of the Extreme Left, the formation of this cabinet gave the signal for a vast working-class movement, during which the Socialist party sought to extend its political influence by means of strikes and the organization of labor leagues among agricultural laborers and artisans.

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