Sentences with phrase «as labour day»

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They are made to silence the objections of organized labour and make the government of the day appear as if it's acting in the national interest.

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rday walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rDay Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

And in September, at about the first Wednesday after Labour Day, they «go haywire,» as parents with young kids scramble to readjust to a new school year.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Here's what the consultancy did: It identified all long weekends between 2006 and June 2011, such as those created by Victoria Day, Labour Day or Canada Day.

Did you know, Labour Day was once a 7 - day public holiday known as the third Golden Week in ChiDay was once a 7 - day public holiday known as the third Golden Week in Chiday public holiday known as the third Golden Week in China?

I thank the labour party every day for the freedom to live my life as I want, and the taxpayers pay for it.

Think of these parables: the seed falling among good soil and bad soil; a tiny mustard seed becoming the largest tree; the landowner who paid the workers who laboured an hour the same wage as those working a full day; the foolish and wise builders constructing on rock and sand; the end times judgement of the sheep and the goats — and so on.

To this day you and all of your gender are punished with painful labour as a result of your offense to god.

The story Jesus told reflects the conditions of first - century Palestine and we are to assume, as his hearers certainly would have assumed, (that the labourers hired later in the day expected to receive a part of a denarius, a denarius being a regular payment for one day's labour.

I'll be honest, having run up to labour at a fast pace in a slightly stressful environment with a house that was still a building site from a long overdue reno project as we left... a long night's sleep and nothing happening for a day wasn't sad.

My eldest suffered from colic and it was truly horrendous — I look back on those days as being so dark — I had a traumatic labour, breastfeeding hadn't gone to plan and I was utterly exhausted.

Although I had been counting down the weeks and days until my due date for months, I was completely prepared for it to come and go without so much as a warning twinge that labour may be starting.

Coping techniques for pain, labour and early days as a parent.

We showed up in labour with our first baby just as the hospital cafeteria was closing, and delivered before it opened again the next day.

You'll get dozens of fresh ideas on how to cope with the reality of labour from this and many other sections of the book, which will help you on the day whether your birth is easy as falling off a log, much tougher than you expected, or somewhere in between.

Mothers will have a start stop labour that may go on for several days as the baby tries to engage, the contractions may be double ones and painful but the true trance like state of labour doesn't come on and the energy of the labour doesn't move forwards.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

As Labour's Luciana Berger said last night when asked if smoking will one day be banned: «We'll have to see».

The Tories poked fun at Miliband's turn of phrase but as the clip got replayed the next day, Labour began offering «Hell Yes» t - shirts to raise money for the campaign coffers.

By the next day, Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.

Labour MPs have granted Conservative MP Charles Walker a standing ovation after he said he had been «played as a fool» on the final sitting day of the parliament.

Also, believe it or not, the day to day life of Labour party people is not as elitist as you assume either.

This afternoon the Labour benches were half - empty, as though half of them had forgotten that this is the first day back at school.

None are as important for Labour as trying to reduce or even reverse the apparent swing against them before election day.

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

The confirmation that Ed Miliband will attend the Royal Wedding in a morning suit, such as trade union leaders used to wear to Royal Ascot in the days when they were always justly and often technically known as barons, confirms that he is True Labour rather than New Labour, as surely as David Cameron's vacillation on the subject confirmed his desire to be the Heir to Blair.

Anecdotes to Cox's character flowed thick and fast including Labour MP Rachel Reeves reminiscing that when Cox shadowed her before becoming an MP that «by the end of the day people weren't sure who the MP was and who as doing the shadowing».

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer lLabour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labourlabour.

His remarks at a Labour comedy event last autumn were reported by the Mail as having taken place at a «sick alternative poppy day «comedy» night».

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

In his book 5 Days in May, Andrew Adonis goes so far as to argue that the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the Conservatives rather than Labour not because of the parliamentary arithmetic was considerably better but instead because Nick Clegg and David Laws especially were ideologically closer and personally warmer to the Tories than to Labour.

That was the unhelpful but not unreasonable question posed by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith the other day as she likened Tian Tian's lengthy but unproductive pregnancy to the Labour leader's failure to produce a single policy of note despite a three year gestation.

But long before the internal debate over Labour's new ideological orientation had been resolved, the Tories had successfully established the deficit as the most important issue of the day — and one for which Miliband's team never managed to craft a decisive message.

Follow all the day's events in and around Westminster as Labour holds its PLP meetingand the Tories continue shoring up their defences

Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark «dead cat» strategy — a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: «There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table — and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

So many of those who have since tried to evaluate Benn's speech have also commented on how difficult it is to see both why he selected the «St. Chrispin's Day» speech as his strategy and also why so many Labour MPs voted for simplistic bombing as a solution.

In her article, timed to appear two days before the Rochester byelection — which Ukip is expected to win — Reeves insists her plans are designed to end exploitation in the labour market and prevent employers using tax credits as a way of subsidising inadequate wages.

Still, as polling day approached, Lord Falconer, the Labour peer charged by Miliband with preparing the party for the transition to government, was working on three possible electoral outcomes — all three involving a hung parliament.

Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, is seeking urgent talks with Corbyn in an attempt to broker a compromise that would prevent the party plunging into a snap leadership contest, as Angela Eagle prepares to launch a challenge by the end of the day.

With inequality growing by the day, there is now a clear dividing line not only between the Liberal Democrats and Tories, but more importantly for many, between Labour and Lib Dems as well.

The confirmation that Ed Miliband would attend the Royal Wedding in a morning suit, such as trade union leaders used to wear to Royal Ascot in the days when they were always justly and often technically known as barons, confirmed that he was True Labour rather than New Labour, as surely as David Cameron's vacillation on the subject confirmed his desire to be the Heir to Blair.

As polling day approaches, the voters are beginning to tune Labour out.

Earlier in the day, a senior contact in Scottish Labour had described Salmond's nationalism as «being slightly fascistic.

While some Labour MPs have bitten their tongues over Tory plans to limit child tax credits to the first two children, Phillips speaks her mind as we sit down at one of the tables behind Portcullis House on a hot summer day.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

But the government could lose the vote on a «programme motion», which limits debate on the bill in the Commons to 14 days, because Labour will join forces with as many as 100 Tory rebels.

Some Labour MPs and the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, dismissed the offer as unacceptable, saying it represented only 12 refugees a day over the course of this parliament, adding that 20,000 sounded less impressive given the long timescale.