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"The emphasis has been a bit more on labour [standards] but environmental issues are going to become more important, " he said.

That will be hard, because Labour has had its revolution and Mr Brown was at the heart of it.

From about the middle of the Eighteenth Century the improvement in agricultural technique began to make it possible to economize in labour.

My very best is what you get, now and forever, so what you see is all I have in those moments of being in labour.

For a time the news delighted labour MPs and trade union stalwarts: the city, at last, ws getting a taste of its own nasty medicine.

It has been a labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.

Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.

Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.

Such gloom is not what was promised in the early years of the Labour government.

Some describe how their cars' batteries can suddenly die while trying to overtake or labour up a hill.

"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.

My wife complains about poor labour policies, the "fact" that Walmart squeezes suppliers, and that it puts local shops out of business.

On October 3rd he said Fiat would pull out of Confindustria(10), Italy's employers' association, and negotiate its own labour deals.

Yet in the automobile industry, at least, Japanese companies stand out for the frequency and seriousness of recent labour problems.

Where the islands of capitalism met the sea of subsistence labour, there was not a "beach" , but a "cliff" .

In 1999 the Labour government made it a priority to reduce rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, and renewed it in 2008.

The city's labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.

She was unfazed by it. She did not look like someone who had just been sentenced to three years' hard labour.

The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.

I found myself thinking that those words would worry me, if I were Alistair Darling, the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.

It was as if he had to labour, and metaphorically sweat, before his genius could, or was allowed to, emerge.

Lenovo said the cuts would save the company $250m a year in labour costs.

failure on the part of the employing unit to pay labour remuneration or to provide working conditions as agreed upon in the labour contract.

Another finding was that fertility rates have declined in those parts of Morocco and Turkey that export labour to Europe.

Speakers from Telford's Labour-controlled council talked about its "urban heartland" , as if it were the Bronx.

Many people seem to have dropped out of the labour force for good, perhaps to retire, collect disability, or return to education.

New Labour, as the name suggests, made a fetish of youth; Tony Blair went out of his way to speak of Britain as a "young country" .

Changing times have pushed the question of labour back to the top of the agenda.

But, to his lasting frustration, he never unravelled the mystery of what triggers labour in humans.

It is not yet fully clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

The Labour MP was criticised for walking out of a Muslim wedding last summer after learning that the guests would be segregated by sex.

How much labour and how much capital (in the form of savings) to supply, and.

It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly wrung replies.

This division of labour, however, is under strain because some Chinese partners feel ready to go it alone.

In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on "skilling up" young people.

The Labour Party is ready to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields, including closer inter-party exchanges.

What would worry me more than anything, if I were a Labour minister, is how the media now treats Tory announcements.

and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.

But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.

Early on as party leader, he said he would match Labour's public-spending commitments for the first year.

It may gain Labour a few votes from Moslem voters of Pakistani origin, but it was not in the best interests of the UK.

All this means that the homes can be built very quickly and with unskilled labour.

Mr Zapatero's next trick was to flag a package of proposals for labour reform, an issue on which he has stalled for almost two years.

Thailand's is not the only Asian economy hooked on cheap labour. Neighbouring Malaysia also depends on millions of guest-workers.

Finally, I registered with the Labour Department. I learnt about the job market situation of other trades which had been unfamiliar to me.

It's scandalous that in 13 years of power New Labour did not abolish the charitable status of public schools.

This means Ofcom must now start trying to make the act, rushed through in the dying days of the last Labour government, actually work.

The labour admInistrative department In charge shall command a correction and a fIne.

Without it, growth would be dependent on labour and capital inputs, and growth would be just a few percent.

In this case, natural agents, the wind or the gravitation of the water, are made to do a portion of the work previously done by labour.

Some resources, in particular the unskilled labour was an exception as the queue length was not very sensitive to this resource.

The Employee shall enter into a labour contract with the new FIE with the same duration and terms and conditions set out in this Contract.

All this could reduce productivity growth at a time when labour forces in these countries will be growing more slowly or even shrinking.

The coalition says the Labour government got less than it should have done for the money it poured into the public services.

And only a few people on the Labour left think the thing should be scrapped altogether, which would at least be neat.

This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

There is no doubt Foxconn and its peers will be able to automate their labour-intensive processes.

Three months after the coalition was formed, much of the Labour Party is still struggling to understand the zeitgeist.

Research by the International Labour Organisation suggests that Chinese wages have been outpacing the rest of Asia for at least a decade.

He must revive Labour's economic credibility, if not by apologising for overspending, then at least by elucidating which cuts he would make.

And also a guy who beat up one of her friends in labour, guy whom she shall hang by the balls over a piranha -infested pool.

China is no longer so cheap as it was, the cost of labour - especially skilled labour - is rising with each year.

Yet it owes more to the alacrity with which they, before any other community, seized on the opportunities of migrant labour.

Scarce and expensive skilled labour is often a spur to invention.

These days, when it attacks him as a hardline right-winger, Labour often seems to be fighting a foe that no longer really exists.

It is not easy to do what Ed Miliband, Labour leader, did last week, making himself an enemy of some of the media's most powerful forces.

Yet the introduction of a national pay floor in 1999 was one of New Labour's most radical economic policies.

asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labour.

But a Labour member of the London Assembly, John Biggs, argued the cable car was "no substitute" for a bridge across the Thames.

Their party coasted on protest votes for years, latterly pretending to be some sort of left-wing conscience for Labour.

Even when BCG first expounded the relationship, it had been known since the second world war that it applied to direct labour costs.

Spain is often cited as the big EU economy most in need of labour-market reform.

Youngsters who have been jobless for a year or more tend to do worse in the labour market for the rest of their lives.

Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at Blenheim Palace.

More recently, however, consumers seem to be flagging despite the strong labour market. Retail sales fell in April.

Workers in rural areas, who still make up about half the total labour force, never had much coverage of any kind anyway.

In the last days of Labour government in 1979, the OFT decided to ask the court to look at the rule book of the stock exchange.

They have been able to do so, first, because labour is still only about a quarter of their total input costs.

His work on labour markets includes a classic paper on the Beveridge curve, which is often cited as evidence for structural unemployment.

He said the process to select a new Labour leader could start immediately.

The news is still bitter, though, because we have yet to see the gains of economic growth translated into the still-decrepit labour market.

However, he said "the weak labour market and the declines in equity and housing wealth" would continue to weigh on spending.

When Lech Walesa had visited the pope, his host had been a man from the Italian Labour Confederation.

It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.

Despite all this, she faced constant sexism, particularly from union leaders who abhorred the idea of a woman running labour policy.

China, which used to be closed to immigrant labour, is now handing out residency permits to professionals, academics and entrepreneurs.

The rise seems to show that people who dropped out of the labour market when prospects looked bleak are now willing to rejoin it.

A year ago the Tories had a double-digit lead over a ragged and squabbling Labour Party. The election seemed theirs for the losing.

Proverbs 21: 25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labour.

The rise seems to show that people who dropped out of the labour market when prospects looked bleak are now willing to rejoin it.

A year ago the Tories had a double-digit lead over a ragged and squabbling Labour Party. The election seemed theirs for the losing.

Proverbs 21: 25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Making it work better was one of the main reasons why the Labour government created the post of mayor.

The more productive China becomes, the cheaper its labour will be, at least relative to what you get.

Clear leadership from him could do much to put the country's labour relations on a more stable footing.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he takeda under the sun?

The regularity with which he did this smacked of some one who was waiting to live upon her labour.

The instinctive refusal to see that there is a non-agenda is characteristic of both the Blair and Brown versions of New Labour.

Mr Menon says that the turnover of staff declines when the company hires from vocational schools rather than the general labour market.

One of the catalysts for the upward trend in wages is demographic, with a falling number of young Chinese entering the labour market.

Nothing would be so effective as a strong economy and a tight labour market.

It's not been easy but he has kept his focus on his work and is now beginning to see the benefits of his labour.

She did not sing for fame, it was purely a labour of love.

However, the bank's report clearly stated that this would require better education, labour market reforms and less red tape.

The central bank recently referred to its "extremely favourable labour market developments" .

Indonesia has not managed to draw investment in the sort of labour-intensive manufacturing for export that fuelled China's boom.

When Labour won the General Election in 1997 I thought it was the best thing that could have happened to the UK.

But there was in her a certain pride and love of labour with which many members of the labour force have been blessed.

Such voters no longer see Labour as "fair" to working families, calling it a party for benefit claimants, unions and immigrants.

It was the urge to amuse that recently prompted Cameron to riff on an old TV ad and shout "Calm down, dear, " at a female Labour MP.

Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labour pain to the father.

For her, prostitution is a step up, providing flexible working hours, no heavy labour and a bigger income, she says.

Migrants, he said, had mostly filled gaps in the labour market left by a welfare system that "paid British people not to work" .

Traditional Labour supporters have accused the new leadership of being a Trojan horse trying to destroy the party from within.

and Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's Labour Party, is now trying to wrap himself in Benjamin Disraeli's "One Nation" Tory cloak.

In Europe, with its increasing numbers of elderly and a shrinking labour force, every notch upwards in unemployment spells further misery.

You do not have to be a member of the moribund Socialist Labour Party of America to see the political appeal of that.

A country that has been built on immigrant labour is now building fences and demonizing foreigners, almost as if it did not need them.

It is a question rather of how much openness to trade and movement of capital and labour there should be.

I was brought up in an Italian immigrant family with a work ethic that teetered on the verge of slave labour.

They had known the sort of poverty where there was not enough to eat, and each day was filled with grinding labour.

Since the February election was a snap one, Labour could legitimately call another a few months later to try for a working majority.

Our comrade pointed out how the land was one of the means by which the labour of the workers was exploited by an idle class.

He said the crucial question was whether the global labour market could sustain a recovery "without the US cylinder firing" .

If the matter cannot be resolved through conciliation, the Labour Affairs Bureau will refer the case to the Public Prosecutions Office.

In 1995, when the Labour government lost power, he took a position as Senior China Consultant at a large Australian accounting company.

Andrew Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union and an influential labour boss, believes a compromise is possible.

The resources were predominantly labour and a concrete mixer was the only equipment used.

In its statement, Foxconn International did not refer to rising labour costs as a reason for the profit warning.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

On the day that the baby is said to have been born, Grant was reported to be at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.

Labour leadership candidate David Miliband, said the "war logs" showed that the war could not be won by military means alone.

Frances Perkins, later Franklin Roosevelt's labour secretary, was one of those who watched the fire.

Mr Brown said he was willing to step aside later this year, at the time of Labour's annual party conference, traditionally held in October.

The possibility that the majority of the labour force will work at home is often discussed.

Labour value is a basic theoretical question of political economy as well as a realistic problem in the developing socialist practice.

I therefore intend to ask the Labour Party to set in train the processes needed for its own leadership election.

But Labour may not be the only party to suffer: it has a new candidate, and the backlash seems to be indiscriminate.

Karen Ward, UK economist at HSBC, said the rise in labour availability was "just what the Governor [of the Bank of England] ordered" .

But many in India do not see child labour as a social evil that has to be ended immediately, saying the poor need it to survive.

SMEs are much closer to their customers and there is often more trust between managers and workers, meaning greater labour flexibility.

Such a business-labour-agricultural council would develop into a super lobby with coercive powers.

She also bequeathed me a strong constitution as well as a strong inclination for labour so that I have been able to work untiringly.

The Calman commission was set up in London after his Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) edged out Labour in the Scottish elections of 2007.

He wants to cut the deficit at least as quickly as Labour intended before the general election (ie, to halve it in four years).

There was a learned debate about the conditions in which trade and capital movements could be a substitute for the free movement of labour.

If China were to follow Japan, the next stage would be labour strife and inflation.

Wage push and rigid labour laws across most of these vulnerable countries did not help either .

He made it a rule to take part in physical labour.

the return of mass unemployment could prove lethal to any remaining chance that Labour will cling to power at the next election.

Viz. that what might be a little to be done with help and tools, was a vast labour, and requir'd a prodigious time to do alone, and by hand.

"Although labour costs are a substantial part of any hospital budget, the interactions themselves add nothing, " the authors say.

as you know, we need a lot of skilled workers to supplement our labour force.

An increase in productivity means that you've made it the capital of the labour force, and the costs can be reduced to a minimum.

As for Adam and Eve, they were driven from the garden and they would have to labour out in the wildwith all their future generations.

Supporters of the plan thought the new leader might at least get a hearing from voters, and could reduce the scale of Labour's defeat.

There is no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.

Labour MP and committee chairwoman Joan Walley said the move suggested the UK really was determined to switch to a greener economy.

Known as the International Labour Organization, the building, real estate, financial and automotive markets with the biggest impact.

Local producers would see production costs rise as they climb the value chain, he said, including rising wages for skilled labour.

That certainly seems to be the view of many senior figures in the Labour and Conservative parties.

That decision was mistaken: the NHS budget grew extravagantly under the previous Labour government and was as ripe as any for pruning.

If you desire to reap the benefits of the fullness of your light you shall and your efforts will be a labour of love and not a burden.

Over the years the company has been accused of using child labour in Asia and of buying feathers plucked from live geese.

The most dramatic moment, though, was when the Labour MP Tom Watson called him a mafia boss, something he said was offensive.

Such a scanty margin could mean Labour emerging as the biggest party in the next parliament.

Nicklas Bendtner's partner is in labour and he is due to be a father today or tomorrow. So I don't know if I will involve him.

China's rate of labour productivity growth outstrips that of Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and Turkey, it says.

However, interspecific hybridization programmes can be slow and require a great deal of scientific expertise and skilled labour.

The issue now is to see how the measures will be implemented, especially those concerning the labour market.

Britain'sdebt burden will rise in the next couple of years to more than 70 per cent of GDP as a result of Labour's bail-out of the banks.

This was the result of both faster growth in average labour costs and slower growth in productivity.

Entrepreneurship used to be seen as somehow Thatcherite, but the New Labour years broke down the idea that business is a bad thing.

eg. But in the hunting stage of mankind there was no steady, regular toil of the sort that we refer to as labour.

A founding member of New Labour, Lord Mandelson's real talents lie in the dark sorcery of public relations and internal party discipline.

The hukou system, which helps to keep wages uneven by discouraging labour mobility, is at least partly to blame.

So Labour needs a leader fitted for the "new politics" , able to be conciliatory as well as ruthless.

That scab union was a tool used by the capitalists in their vain attempt to damp down the labour movement.

The figures showed that since the beginning of 1997, the year Labour came to power, the number of foreign-born workers has almost doubled.

Construction simple, easy to operate and saves materials, Labour and maintenance cost.

AS THE general election draws closer, a crucial dividing line between the ruling Labour Party and the Conservatives is becoming blurred.

There is no Labour Party in the United States, nor have the workers any other mass political organization of their own.

Labour MPs protested at the time that this applied to no other category of public expenditure.

What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.

Yet, though I feel proud of my achievements and sad at the direction the Labour party is now taking, my journey is not over.

The concept of trade in tasks can be traced to Adam Smith's description of the division of labour in a pin factory in 18th-century Britain.

He took part in forced labour as slowly as he could, digging ditches or chopping up blocks of marble in the fierce, dripping Cuban heat.

The expression 'division of labour' is an indefinite one, and must necessarily produce a false or indefinite idea.

Voters' immediate reactions to him in focus groups conducted by the Labour Party are said to border on the cruel.

With its economies of scale and abundant labour, China is hoping to gain an edge in what promises to be a lucrative new industry.

But as the labour progressed, the husband felt fine, so he asked the doctor to go ahead and bump it up a notch.

Having long taken their labour market's flexibility for granted, Americans may now have to work at it.

If out of the ashes of Labour, Mr Osborne creates a self-reliant nation freed from benefit addiction, yesterday's pain will not be in vain.

Labour and social insurance for the Working Personnel of the Company shall be handled in accordance with Applicable Laws.

Each one of these profit centers uses up company resources (land, labour, money) and should be making a profit.

Farmers, who have political clout and a perpetual hunger for cheap labour, may be allowed to hire more seasonal workers.

But as the labour progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and bump it up a notch.

Strapping and taping can be up to 50% more expensive in terms of material and labour costs.

Genius is nothing but labour and diligence.

and that the Labour Party is ready to exploit anti-EU sentiment.

"It would be a huge blow to our labour-intensive industry, " he said.

The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price.

A year ago the talk was of exceeding Labour-era commitments on health spending and making this the "greenest government ever" .

Poor Dorothea felt a pang at the thought that the labour of her husband's life might be void.

India retains rigid labour laws that make it almost impossible to fire an employee or to hire contract labour.

It may try to deregulate the labour market a little, even if it is unlikely to challenge the country's powerful trade unions overtly.

"They were horrible. There will be other kids out there who know , from other homes, they were used as slave labour , " he said .

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

The Maoists are trying to spread their movement among trade and labour unions, poor people and students.

This has been a selective account of Labour's long, eventful tenure.

And, with support for the Conservatives and Labour falling, the number of MPs elected by a minority of votes cast in their seat has risen.

If the women are found guilty, analysts say they face at least five years detention with hard labour in a North Korean prison camp.

Yet governments are often reluctant to leave migration flows to the labour market.

We are all familiar with one of the effects of a globalizing China: the relative price of labour falls, meaning cheaper "stuff" .

Calls for a more pro-poor, pro-labour stance strike a strong chord with the party's rank and file.

To ~ a man is a tedious and uncertain labour; hanging the sure work of a minute.

Labour accuse him of using the euro crisis as an excuse for poor growth but many voters seem to think it is a good one.

Labour mobility between the two economies is a delicate but clear enough subject in terms of its pros and cons .

This might have prompted a bold Labour manifesto and a cautious Tory one.

The labour administrative department in charge shall issue a warning and command a correction and impose a fine concurrently .

He took over as chairman of BP in 1997 when his predecessor, Lord Simon, unexpectedly joined the newly elected Labour government.

"America's dependence on such critical inputs as foreign labour, resources, capital and markets has never been greater, " he wrote.

Over time, consumer spending should also be supported by an improvement in labour market conditions.

Women die as a result of infection and of haemorrhage. Some have obstructed labour and cannot get a caesarean section.

He said a big challenge for the next five years was responding to a growing loss of competitiveness in low-cost labour manufacturing.

Its prominence has had much to with the global dominance of its culture, the allure of its labour market and its lavish bursaries.

Rising commodity prices are not the only worry. The labour market is weak, with continuing jobless claims at a cyclical high.

President Obama's speech to a union crowd on Labour Day was an election-campaign event, more about politics than economics.

When Gordon Brown arrived in Downing Street it appeared that Labour might have lost its enthusiasm for the ASBO scheme.

With its seemingly limitless supply of cheap labour and the rapid acquisition of technological prowess, China appears to be unstoppable.

With Westminster back from its summer break, both Tory confidence and the durability of Labour's poll bounce are about to be tested.

The ordinary peasantry seemed to have been forced to labour on the construction of the Norman castles that existing in every major town.

Labour's basic solution was to fix the symptoms of that failure, making exams and access to university easier.

But thanks to Mr McCain's "hold" tactic, the Republicans seem to have won the first labour skirmish.

The dire state of the economy all but guaranteed a Labour defeat but it was not sufficient to give David Cameron's Conservatives a majority.

But bosses fear that the stricter labour standards that would accompany such a concession might outweigh the benefits.

Labour is often the father of pleasure.

18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

"It has been a difficult time, a difficult day and difficult letters are on the way, " he told the parliamentary Labour party.

But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production.

The war is again becoming a potential deal-breaker for erstwhile Labour voters, as it was at the election of 2005.

as if nature were rather busy not to err, than in labour, to produce excellency.

In many countries, the agribusiness sector employs more labour and generates more income than any other sector of the economy.

Barack Obama used a speech on Labour Day to call for an extra $50 billion in spending on infrastructure as a way to create jobs.

However, psychiatrists say the suicides cannot be explained as a simple consequence of labour conditions at Foxconn.

However, a woman infected with HIV, can transmit the virus to her child during pregnancy, labour or delivery, and also through breast milk.

Brevik 25 initial appearance, said he chose to start with the ruling Labour Party's goal is to hit the party as possible.

"Compared with the bosses of the firms they were going up against, the early labour leaders were the geniuses, " says Ms Horowitz.