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261 examples of Labour in a sentence

This is a labour of Sisyphus, since the 'acquis' grows faster than the capacity to absorb it in East European legislation.
An independent body of experts that publicly calls for member states to correct their macroeconomic course – based on objective and comprehensible indicators, such as unit labour costs – could make an important contribution in this regard.
At the same time, many Labour MPs recognize that the EU plays a central role in providing economic opportunities and social mobility for British citizens.
So the Labour and Liberal Democrat majority in the House of Lords – which May cowed into authorizing the start of the Brexit talks in February – can reject the deal that a minority Conservative government produces.
They have a rather closed system of big corporations and big labour unions loosely directed by an interventionist government with the collaboration of big banks.
To what particular labour and capital-market institutions might responsiveness to share prices be strongly linked?
Yet governments can attack speculative excesses and thus reduce job instability by doing for capital markets what they have long done for product and labour markets: set up systems to monitor markets for the safety of investors, ensure transparency, and promote good corporate governance.
She famously asserted that she would never hand that control away, and the Bank of England was not set free until 1997, when Tony Blair’s first Labour government was elected.
All major fields of economic policy are covered: innovation and entrepreneurship, welfare reform and social inclusion, skills and employability, gender equality, labour and product market liberalisation, and "sustainable" development.
Part of the answer lies in free market reforms undertaken in America, Britain and parts Europe, that made them more competitive by shifting the balance of power from labour and consumption to capital and investment.
In addition, some member governments, like those of Germany and Austria, have demonstrated serious anxiety that EU enlargement will incite a flood of job-seekers from Central and Eastern Europe, and made clear that they will demand a long delay in granting free movement of labour to any new member state.
The first missing ingredient is a clear reckoning as to how justice itself is measured, especially the net effects of trade-offs between, say, child labour and starvation.
But, starting with the US and EU, rich countries fear increasing unemployment due to competition from developing countries armed with cheap labour.
Issues raised by globalization’s opponents, such as labour standards in poor countries -- all those images of exploited women and children in sweat-shops -- are manipulated by rich countries as a form of protectionism by other means.
Trade liberalisation does not decrease aggregate employment; instead, it changes the composition of the labour force, making the whole economy more efficient.
If child labour is wrong, it is always wrong.
So, too, with child labour in poor countries.
If the alternatives, however, are starvation or children abandoned by their families, then child labour might be tolerated in the context of policies designed to combine growth with a determination to use its fruits to reduce poverty and promote social justice.
Down goes the economy and down goes the Labour government’s standing.
From the Labour Party’s point of view, this second election was a test of its credibility as a normal party of government.
South Korea has focused on systemic reform and, today, despite labour unrest the signs of economic recovery abound and political prospects are brightening, too.
Of the EU's 160 million-strong labour force, 56% report working at very high speeds, and 60% to tight deadlines.
Labour leaders like Clement Attlee, the first prime minister after World War II, were not opposed to a market economy; they just wanted to regulate markets in such a way that might best serve working-class interests.
Of the 1.9 million youngsters in higher education who are expected to enter the labour force over the next five years, 15.2% have no hope of employment.
Existing labour laws (introduced after 1979) make it costly for employers to hire workers, who benefit from compulsory bonuses and generous severance payments.
But during market reforms the traditional suppression of consumer demand and lack of work incentives stood in the way of a sharp increase in labour productivity.
The difference between today's Russia and the old Soviet Union is that the Gulag archipelago of labour camps has been shunted aside in favour of what can only be called a "Gucci archipelago" or a casino camp.
Despite piloting the economy through a post-recession recovery, Major lost to Tony Blair in 1997, ending 18 years of Conservative government and bringing a 13-year Labour run, which will probably end when Britain votes for a new government on May 6.Blair took over a strong economic legacy, and, to be scrupulously fair, he didn’t wreck it.
Thus, more votes are needed to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP.
Moreover, next year he will have been Prime Minister for a decade, longer than any previous Labour leader.
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