Sentences with phrase «hours labouring over»

I know, I know — they scream of extra work and hours labouring over the laundry basket — a tiresome task we associate with OUR parents generation — BUT — take a look at a few of these disposable diaper facts before I launch into why my household chose to use CHARLIE BANANA cloth nappies...

Not exact matches

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) increased by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.4 per cent higher over the year.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

Without the emergency intervention that followed, the baby would have suffocated in the birth canal in which he was trapped and I would have bled to death, which would at least have killed me within hours rather than over several excruciatingly painful days in the case of the obstructed labour.

Paris laboured, but it took them over half an hour to find a response, and even that came from an error, as Cedric Carrasso failed to claim a loose ball, allowing Zlatan Ibrahimovic to nick in and equalise.

In spite of a family history of long first births (the reason I wanted a home birth in the first place was to avoid a lot of intervention if labour went over 24 hours), I had my first baby in three and a half hours, and the others were even faster.

After lengthy pre-labour, labour finally started but my son was posterior and we stalled at 5 cm dilated for over 10 hours.

Considering most parents spend at least 24 hours in hospital over the course of their labour, delivery and recovery, it's surprising that more hospitals don't provide the non-labouring spouse more than just a stiff waiting room chair.

After all, your luck would really, really be in if your political opponents had declared the death of New Labour, vacated the centre - ground of British politics, abandoned Middle England and all the rest of the things you have all been saying over the last 48 hours.

But he enjoyed a warm reception from Labour activists — many of whom queued for over two hours to hear him — and received a long standing ovation when he exited the stage to soul classic «Working on a Building of Love» by Chairmen of the Board.

«Over the next 24 hours, I will reshape my shadow cabinet and announce a new leadership team to take forward Labour's campaign for a fairer Britain - and to get the best deal with Europe for our people.»

Over the last 48 hours - on LeftWatch - I've been documenting the zero to 100mph rhetorical overkill of Labour MPs and left - wing commentators.

The Labour leader spoke for over an hour without notes and received his best reception for a pledge to reverse what he called the «privatisation of the NHS».

The last Tory Chancellor charged Labour with three main faults over Northern Rock: (1) A 48 hour delay at the start of the crisis in reassuring depositors; (2) A failure during Brown's time as Chancellor to renew the Deposit Insurance regime; and (3) A lack of transparency from Alistair Darling in recent weeks.

When Labour left office, A&E was performing well with 98 % of patients seen within 4 hours; but since the election, the number waiting over 4 hours has more than doubled, and ambulance queues have doubled too.

It's been over twenty - four hours since the one - time boy wonder of the new Labour movement announced his intention to stand down from Parliamentary politics and head off across the pond.

Labour stepped up its attack on the Home Office over the nine - hour detention of David Miranda today, as the international row escalated.

Over the next hour I'm particularly looking out for Nuneaton, a Conservative seat which Labour was targeting - and the first Scottish seat, the Western Isles.

Labour inflicted a symbolic defeat on the government over universal credit on Wednesday night, hours after work and pensions secretary David Gauke announced he would end a 55p - a-minute helpline for welfare claimants.

The knives were out within hours after it became clear that the Tories were going to suffer a humiliating drop in their majority - only weeks after leading polls by 20 points over Labour.

«We've seen lots switching to Labour over the last 48 hours, it could be close,» one said on Saturday.

Early results last night indicated that Labour leader Ed Miliband will face many criticisms over the next 48 hours, including over his personal performance, and his appeal to working class voters.

«Labour have the gall to claim they've kept all their promises, yet the 4,387 patients left for over 12 hours without being treated will testify that they've failed on their pledge to eradicate lengthy waits.

The shadow foreign minister quit over the Labour Leader's shake - up of his top team - just an hour after colleague Jonathan Reynolds

Yet over the following three hours, not one Labour backbencher was moved to deliver a speech in favour of the BIll, as shadow Treasury spokesman David Gauke noted in his summing up:

When I attended the Labour Party Conference last year, in Manchester, I was struck by the fact I didn't meet a single business person over the 36 hours I was there.

In the old days, we'd labour for hours over a finely crafted letter rather than speak to someone in person; more recently, the advent of email and voice mail and even texting has allowed us to happily delay and defer direct contact, keeping the other person at arm's length.

«It needed more work than I intended,» Ireland says now that the 30 hours of labour is over.