Sentences with phrase «hard labour for»

I'm not encouraging you to do any hard labour for this cake!

A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced a 30 - year - old small - scale miner to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an 8 - year - old school girl.

This is unacceptable as Ozil's hard labour for Arsenal has almost totally been thrown to the trash bin.

North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Labour holds two - thirds of Scotland's seats in the British Parliament, and their removal would make it harder for Labour to become the governing party again.

Fitch Ratings chief economist Brian Coulton said inflation «will be hard for the Fed to ignore» as the labour market tightens.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

I, for one, have laboured long and hard over the whole matter of seeking to change and become more godly not realising that the means was to accept me fully and completely.

Life had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily life, he had done his chores uncomplainingly.

This Christmas, spare a thought for these people on the land and their hard workers, while you enjoy the fruits of their labour.

I could say what a miracle it was to see this sweet life enter the world, or how I admire the strength and grace with which Roxanna (and mothers everywhere for that matter) laboured and gave birth, or how the love and joy in this little family as they welcomed J made it hard for me to keep back tears.

My plan was to call her again as late as possible because I imagined having an audience for my labour might actually make it harder for me to stay calm and focused.

It is a difficult choice to make for most first time mothers as its hard to self assess what the different sensations of early labour mean about your progress and the length of time left until the labour gets more intense.

«I would recommend the Dreamgenii to any pregnant ladies, because even without the SPD as I've had this time, it is hard to get comfy the bigger you get in your pregnancy and the right ergonomic support can help not only to get a better night's sleep, but also in theory to make sure your body is well aligned and prepared for labour, so it could indeed contribute to a successful birth...»

If the new Labour leader can't build up a real period of polling success, they may be in for a long, hard struggle.

Last year the Labour peer Lord Watts had his own dig at North London Labourites when he described them as «the London - centric hard - left political class who sit around in their # 1 million mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution».

It might be the equivalent of turkeys voting for Christmas, but it's hard to see how Labour could refuse.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

Similarly, the SNP argued that Labour MPs had handed the Government a «blank cheque for hard Brexit».

It is hard to see any useful role for him in Britain: there is no national populist upsurge; those that vote UKIP will never listen to him; he is now also widely disliked within the modern Labour Party, as unfair as that might be.

Which is why Gavin Barwell, the PM's chief of staff, is laser - like focused on activity that it's hard for Labour to oppose in the Division Lobby.

The former arch eurosceptic has been accused by some Labour MPs of not campaigning hard enough for a Remain vote.

«If ministers were as good at upgrading roads as they are at making announcements about upgrading roads, life would be considerably easier for Britain's hard - pressed motorists,» Labour's Michael Dugher said this morning.

The move will make it harder for Labour to take key seats from the Conservatives in the 2015 general election campaign.

The second is that they use it with as much precision as Margaret Thatcher; for if one cavils at Thatcher's materialistic interpretation of the story, it is hard to feel much more comfortable with Labour's general «the state should jolly well get involved and do something» interpretation.

The Tories will implement boundary reform as one of their first actions, making it at least 20 seats harder for Labour to beat them.

You would be hard pressed to find a more spirited, socialist Labour MP so I'm genuinely baffled that Paul Mason had called for her deselection last week.

For some pro-EU advocates, Labour is a hard Brexit party and Jeremy Corbyn is as culpable as Theresa May.

It's hard to make the case that rail would be dramatically more efficient under Labour's plans for public ownership, as the party has committed to several things which would keep costs high — though could easily also result in better service.

Chuka Umunna, Labour Mp for Streatham and a leading critic of Brexit, is presenting the result as a rejection of hard Brexit.

Two - thirds of the increase in unemployment was accounted for by women, who continue to be hit hardest by the deterioration in the labour market.

As with the Tories Labour would also call on the DUP and Liberal Democrats first if those parties were sufficient to yield a majority, on the basis that the SNP will be harder for Labour to do a deal with, especially given their differences over Trident.

Labour has endured all three in the past 20 months and the reluctance to hammer May's hard Brexit, every day warning of the dangers of jingoistic isolation and reminding us of that # 350m a week for the NHS lie, encapsulates a fatal lack of political confidence and leadership.

A hard Brexit might not be ideal for the Tories» reputation as the party of business but as long as Labour is led by Jeremy Corbyn there'll be no competition for the mantle.

«In the face of an increasingly insular, hostile, right wing centralist Tory party and a hard left statist command and control Labour party we have to aim for the gaping void in the middle.»

I agree with those who suggest a long hard look at what Labour stands for rather than a fudged compromise and more - of - the - same - with - a-different-smile.

It is hard for Labour to compete on generosity with the Green policy of abolishing fees and reintroducing grants (ED234).

I acknowledge that one of the most off - putting things about Labour, for me, is that the loudest, most strident voices seem to emanate from a hard - line atheist worldview which I associate with communism.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Yet you can still see the potential for the SNP to push for policies that Labour might favour if it didn't have compete so hard on territory occupied by the Conservatives.

First, whilst these cuts are going through, huge numbers of some of the poorest people are having their lives made much harder; can we wait for Labour?

They will be duty bound to push for their manifesto commitments and although the Liberal Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.

Although Kinnock had a hard time laying the foundations for the changes in the Labour Party that Blair would finally push through, the one thing he had going for him when fighting his internal battles was the outcome of the 1983 election.

There is strong evidence that Labour is still carrying the burden of being in office when the financial crisis struck, fatally damaging its hard won reputation for economic competence.

In a hard - hitting interview with The House magazine, Mr Dugher also condemned former London Mayor Ken Livingstone for appearing to justify the actions of the 7/7 bombers, and suggested Labour's ruling National Executive Committee should sack him as co-chair of the party's defence review.

William Hague is leading a cabinet committee that is due to produce proposals about how to proceed with the so - called West Lothian question (it is being boycotted by Labour, who see the issue as a trap designed to make it harder for them to govern).

And it would present an open goal for the Conservatives against Labour (indeed, for the Liberal Democrats against Labour as well — why take the harder target?).

The benefits of incumbency mean that it is harder for either Labour or the Tories to win an overall majority, as they have to battle against incumbent MPs who have large amounts of state funding to bolster their campaigns.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

For Labour's part, it's harder to see how a presidential election can work, given their leader's unpopularity.