Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

If labor pains hurt as much as people say, everyone would only have one child!

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

This company uses cheap labor to increase its profit margins.

Making babies is not hard labor.

The woman was seven months pregnant when she went into labor.

Is this the Department of Labor?

Students, labor organizers, intellectuals, professional and others were kidnapped, assassinated and they "disappeared". Meanwhile many people went into exile.

If the real purpose of all the uproar about sweatshop labor in the Third World is to allow college students and professors to feel morally one-up on businesses that are providing much-needed jobs in poor countries, then it accomplishes that purpose.

It's a labor of love.

Man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.

This task is labor-intensive.

How much did you pay for the labor on this?

This work will only be done well if there's division of labor.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Internal division within the Labor Party was one of the factors which led to its defeat at the recent election.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Tom is very skilled in manual labor.

Tom is very skilled at manual labor.

The court sentenced him to 18 years of labor, with no possibility of early release.

She's going into labor.

The mountains will labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

I work and always labor very much.

The labor union announced a strike.

This rug was made without the use of child labor.

The payment for labor and return on invested capital was several millions.

Labor created man.

I have come to see the fruits of your labor.

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

After several hours of labor, she delivered a lovely healthy baby.

We need to reduce labor costs.

Slave labor and child labor are sad realities.

Child labor is a serious social problem in Brazil.

There is an important reason that so many working families feel like the system is rigged, and it’s because the economy hasn’t caught up to some of the enormous changes that have transformed America over the past 50 years. Those days when the average family was a dad who went to work every day and a mom who stayed at home and did all the unpaid labor -- that’s not what our economy looks like anymore. Household and work arrangements come in all shapes and all combinations, and yet, our workplace policies still look like they’re straight out of Mad Men.

But there's a big difference between forced and voluntary labor.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property.

For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.

You can get nothing without labor.

The General Court of Massachusetts followed the example of the English Parliament in 1659 when it enacted that ' anybody who is found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting, or any other way, any such day as Christmas day, shall pay for every such offense five shillings.'

In developing countries, labor organizations have often been suppressed, and the growth of the middle class has been held back by corruption and underinvestment.

Fadil thought of his life as hard labor.

含“labor”的英语例句