Labour has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | Those who labour with their minds govern others; those who labour with their strength are governed by others. | |
| 2. | We are indirectly dependent upon the labour of others for all the necessities and comforts of our lives. | |
| 3. | Hanson is wrong when he states international economic developments led to great migrations of labour in the seventeenth century. | |
| 4. | "I'd rather get the sack than not join the labour union," said the disgruntled worker. | |
| 5. | Argument continues about the "White collar exemption" that exempts specific white collar workers from the "8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week," working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act. | |
| 6. | Distrust of the Social Insurance Agency and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare just keeps getting stronger. | |
| 7. | Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive. | |
| 8. | The reformed Labour Standards Act will be in force from Jan 1st 2004. | |
| 9. | They rarely spoke of the labour problem at their workplace. | |
| 10. | We all labour against our own cure; for death is the cure of all disease. |