in labour; parturient
I steel myself in labour.
His wife is a woman in labour.
Jane was in labour for ten hours.
Classification and code of employment form in labour contract system
The disparity in labour productivity fully illustrates this situation.
This paper led to a radical change in labour policy.
My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.
According to statistics, about 10% of the prison population did not participate in labour in 1990.
A simple tool for identifying these problems early in labour is the partograph – a graph of the progress of labour and the maternal and fetal condition.
Do not let your mountain in labour bring forth a mouse.
a rise in labour intensity must increase strength consumption and decrease work efficiency.
The labour market remained slack in the early part of 1999. Yet a steady improvement was observed thereafter, along with the revival in economic activity and also the slow-down in labour force growth.
Taking part in labour should be included in the curriculum, with half a day set aside for labour every week. The main objective is to help students cultivate good work habits and strengthen their collective spirit.
The resulting fall in labour-productivity growth might cause alarm among some analysts, But TFP would remain strong.
And slavery helped keep the South backward. The planters, with all their capital tied up in slaves, had little incentive to invest in labour-saving technology.
So Africans with AIDS, cancer, sickle-cell disease, victims of car crashes, gunshot and machete wounds, and women in labour, suffer severe pain without relief.
But now childbirth expert Dr Michael Odent says fathers' presence in labour wards is so disruptive, it can even be blamed for the dramatic upsurge in caesarean section deliveries in the past few years.
