Uquq laboured for 40 hours, and eventually delivered a stillborn pup.
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Many (of assorted political persuasions) laboured quietly to produce valuable research.
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For more than three months Mr Tsimba laboured over the fire.
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However long it took, he laboured until each piece was exactly right.
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There is just enough to look at to distract from the laboured treatment.
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Munich's police spokesperson, Marcus da Gloria Martins, laboured tirelessly to sort fact from fiction.
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Yet Mr Trump and his supporters have laboured to suggest she is weak and unwell.
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Anyone who has laboured over hundreds of failed panoramic attempts will know this all too well.
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Sonam Kapoor stands out like a sore thumb in a laboured and awkward turn as Avni.
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Lending Over nearly four years, the ECB has laboured to depress borrowing costs and boost lending.
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Would he liken himself to those who laboured at Stonehenge, the pyramids or China's Great Wall?
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The coalition deal has few fans, even among the people who laboured for months to negotiate it.
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In 1900 two in every five American workers laboured on a farm; now one in 113 does.
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In 2018 South Koreans laboured for 39 hours per week on average, 16% above the OECD mean.
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Under the "putting out" system of pre-industrial capitalism, workers were often sole traders who laboured at home.
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While swathes of banking have laboured under cutbacks and stiff capital requirements, their headcount and clout have grown.
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She has decent hitting power but her striking looks laboured and telegraphed next to someone like Valentina Shevchenko.
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Like any good kid hoping to write someday, I laboured over Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson at fifteen.
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Ahok had been popular, having waged war on Jakarta's corrupt and idle bureaucrats and laboured manfully to improve its infrastructure.
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For years NGOs and the government have laboured to build toilets in the Indian countryside, only to find them unused.
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The one exception is "Faust", his most famous work, on which he laboured on and off for most of his life.
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Last year full-time workers in the OECD, a group of rich countries, laboured for 40.1 hours per week on average.
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Roman herbalists used the drug to combat dysentery, even as they warned against the "chilled extremities" and "laboured breath" of overdosing.
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FROM the start of his academic career in the 1950s until 1996, when he died, Hyman Minsky laboured in relative obscurity.
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As the party disembarked from the vessel and laboured up the swaying jetty, a group of women gathered to greet them.
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There, in a hillside house with a view of the Connecticut river, he laboured "to turn himself into a specifically American writer".
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Despite the sounds of his laboured breathing, Baruto landed some tough body punches and some crunching knees to the ribs of Fujita.
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The side steps which seemed effortless in the first round became much more laboured as Andrade poured on the body work throughout.
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Such allegory runs the risk of becoming laboured, and the play's overarching metaphor is made to do a lot of heavy lifting.
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Investor sentiment has laboured under tighter liquidity conditions and regulatory measures, including a crackdown on speculation involving curbs on lending, analysts said.
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In the third round, the two come together in a clinch, and Tsagouris hits Torres with five laboured shots behind the head.
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With many referring to the Trump visit, one amateur artist laboured the point of double standards by superimposing Ivanka's face on Model Khulood.
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In the opening segment, echoes of other satirical fantasias—whether Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" or Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum"—sometimes feel laboured.
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IN A SUNNY room in a small apartment in the Tokyo satellite town of Kunitachi lies Yasuyuki Ibaraki, eyes closed and breathing laboured.
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"Crude oil prices laboured under the weight of various OPEC members seeking exemption from the production cut agreement," ANZ bank said on Tuesday.
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Then, many more workers laboured within large corporations, on contracts with built-in cost-of-living increases tied to the rate of inflation.
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I do this so the essence of the work, its point or focus, floats clearly on the surface without appearing laboured or compromised.
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Mr Enders has laboured, with much success, to reduce state influence on the group and to create a profit-driven firm like any other.
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Generali however has laboured to convince investors that its finances are solid enough to meet regulatory requirements and has had three CEOs since 2012.
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However, Tajne laboured at his task single-handedly, putting in four hours in the morning, and two hours in the evening after returning from work.
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Yet backtracking on planned reforms would be a huge embarrassment for China's leaders, who have laboured long and hard to raise the yuan's status internationally.
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SMOKE belched from the exhaust of a double-decker coach as it laboured over a rail crossing a short distance from Bangkok, Thailand's teeming capital.
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They spent weeks drawing up new intersections and revising one-way systems; workers laboured to add new doors to the other side of thousands of buses.
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Ms Friedlander notes that her tongue and jaw shake during vibrato, her breathing is laboured rather than smooth and that her Italian diction is "completely unintelligible".
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Contemporary English in blank verse can sound laboured ("Why, if you approve of my advances / Deny to me definitive credentials?" runs a particularly tinny pair of lines).
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He describes the birth of his daughter movingly—frail, he lay swaddled as his wife laboured beside him—and the soul-filling love for his new baby.
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In the early 2000s about a quarter of workers laboured for more than 45 hours a week, but by 2015 this had dropped to about a fifth.
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A more assertive United States will raise tensions in the European Union with both sides having laboured for years to find common ground in areas like clearing derivatives.
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In April a hopeful sign was the government's creation of a new Ministry of Emergency Management, drawing together staff who had previously laboured in a dozen different departments.
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A peculiar two-on-two grappling match, which looked like laboured sparring, pitting Silva against old opponent Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro while partnering up with Kiyoshi Tamura.
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The greenback, measured against a basket of currencies , scaled a fresh 2018 peak on Wednesday, while the euro laboured near $1.1352, recovering slightly from losses earlier in the week.
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However while United laboured, Sevilla had not looked a real threat in what was a generally poor quality game until the introduction of Ben Yedder with 18 minutes left.
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Cabrera Bello combined with Jon Rahm for a three-under 69 as teams in the 28-nation field laboured on slick greens on a windy day at Kingston Heath.
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It's become obligatory recently for critics to end reviews by attempting to integrate pop culture into the contemporary political climate – an impulse that has, at times, felt over-laboured.
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The current chief executive, Brian Moynihan, has also laboured to clean up the mess left by his predecessor, Ken Lewis, who bought Countrywide, a big subprime mortgage lender, in 23.
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The slaves, who included babies and old people, were sold for $13,000, about $3.3m today, to plantations in Louisiana, where they laboured in dreadful conditions on cotton and sugar plantations.
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The House passed a similar resolution in 1984 but successive administrations have laboured to dissuade legislators from using the g-word for fear of alienating Turkey, an American strategic partner.
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He laboured to win over Chief Justice John Roberts—the court's median vote—by citing him twice in the opening paragraph and twice again, for good measure, in the conclusion.
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But for a band who were once so subtle, so able to craft great emotion with the lightest lyrical or instrumental touch, the point just feels laboured, and that's a shame.
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In a country whose leaders have intermittently resorted to anti-Americanism to prop up autocratic rule or justify protectionist policies, modernisers have long laboured to overcome distrust of the United States.
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It is against this backdrop that John Kerry, America's secretary of state, laboured for months to stitch together the temporary cessation of hostilities deal that fell apart as soon as it began.
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Even before "The Dark Knight Returns", various writers had laboured to bring Batman back to his noirish roots and away from the camp image of Adam West in the 1960s television series.
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Bolt, running his first 200metres race for a year in his last outing on the track before the Olympics, struggled for his usual rhythm as he laboured to victory in 19.89 seconds.
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The denouement is especially laboured, with an "active shooter" hostage situation livestreamed on smartphones, in an Equator fulfilment centre, involving a CEO and an aggrieved truck driver whose job is threatened by automation.
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Buying 2.6 trillion euro worth of debt over nearly four years, the ECB has laboured away to depress borrowing costs and kick start lending, all in the hope of rekindling growth and inflation.
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Last year, as part of the city-state's push to become a global trading hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG), it developed the slightly laboured SLInG, a spot-price index for Asian LNG.
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The laboured process of negotiating an initial draft, which could see the parliamentary vote on the budget delayed until January, shows how sclerotic policy-making has become in Spain's new era of fragmented government.
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The subsequent angst and outrage will be compounded by a joyless hour or so of laboured attacking from the home team, before Chelsea nab a second on the counter attack in the 92nd minute.
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Having laboured for over a decade in his desire to drag Portugal to the top, Ronaldo is still without major international silverware, and this might be his last chance to win something for his country.
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That is not reassuring talk for a justice who has laboured to dial back discrimination against gays and lesbians for decades while colleagues to his right accused him of fashioning rights out of thin air.
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With fresh funding, after Force India laboured under significant debts and had their bank account frozen towards the end, the Silverstone-based team were tipped to be among the leaders in a tight midfield group.
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Gilead Studies has become surprisingly popular: "Those of us who have laboured in the dim and obscure corners of academe for so long are not used to the bewildering glare of the limelight," he says.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency laboured to monitor Iraq's nuclear-fuel cycle, but for other possible misbehaviour, including efforts to make poison gas or deadly germs, Mr Ekeus had to recruit his own team of experts.
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McIlory disappointed the home support with the home favourite carding an eight-over-par 79 while a stiff-looking Woods was nothing like the player who won the Masters in April as he laboured to seven-over.
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Ambling about the pitch, wandering offside as Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne laboured to create chances for him, it was no surprise to see him substituted for Divock Origi with 20 minutes left on the clock.
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Many of the fighters had migrated to Russia for work—as millions of Central Asians have—and laboured in grim conditions for low pay, when they were radicalised by Muslim fanatics with Russian citizenship from the Caucasus.
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In pursuit of unforgettable melodies, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad laboured over their songs in the studio, but those songs were never designed to do anything other than get the listener's toe tapping.
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If the aim of the film was to evoke nostalgia, it works in the sense that you yearn for the time when Bollywood knew how to make a love story, and romance didn't have to be this laboured.
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Even with Son restored to the line-up on Monday after starting the Malaysia match on the bench, the four-times champions laboured in the first half of a match from which they needed a point to progress.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British pound laboured near seven-week lows against the dollar on Friday and three-week lows versus the euro, as doubt grows about whether the UK and the European Union can clinch a Brexit deal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British pound laboured near two-month lows against the dollar and three-week lows versus the euro on Friday as doubt grows about whether the UK and the European Union can clinch a Brexit deal.
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Mourinho's final few months in charge were dominated by media reports of his falling out with the club's 13 million pounds ($114 million) France midfielder Paul Pogba while his side laboured on the pitch playing dull defensive football.
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In his time as a Treasury official in the 1960s he had laboured to maintain the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which had built an international monetary system round pegging the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce.
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Add in the painful body language and laboured reading of a prepared statement announcing that he had, and it is hard to escape the conclusion that someone convinced him to eat his words from Helsinki upon his return home.
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ROME, May 25 (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte met with the head of state Sergio Mattarella on Friday, a source from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement said, as Conte laboured to put together his cabinet team.
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A Jewish-American journalist who worked under Mr Lipsky fondly recalls the mix of staff: Hasidim from Brooklyn who laboured in Yiddish; secular American Jews who put out the English edition; fast-talking, conspiracy-minded Russians who wrote in their language.
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On top of economic concerns, politics could also loom large over the exchange rate as the fraught and laboured UK-euro zone negotiations over Brexit intensify in the coming months ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union in March 2019.
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Though Moussa Sissoko laboured admirably to create space for them, they neglected to make anything of it, and the game soon descended into a hit-and-miss lumping match the likes of which suited their opponents down to the ground.
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But it seems as if he and his co-writer, Tony Grisoni, laboured over the screenplay for too many years, fiddling with different drafts until they could no longer remember which story they wanted to tell or which points they hoped to make.
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They obviously weren't trying to make proto-punk songs—they were trying to make traditional pop songs, but without the knowledge or skill to emulate that, all they could do was make sure they could follow a carefully fixed and laboured arrangement.
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Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle, which runs data-science competitions that have resulted in promising academics being hired by firms, compares Google's pre-eminence in AI to the concentration of talented scientists who laboured on the Manhattan Project, which produced America's atom bomb.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The third-generation leader of South Korea's top conglomerate was mostly silent at his first court appearance in what has been called the "trial of the century," as his lawyers laboured to portray him as an innocent bystander in a graft scandal.
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Wearing replicas of the first Bayern shirts 120 years ago, to mark the club's birthday, they laboured to add another in the second half with Augsburg keeper Andreas Luthe stopping a point-blank Philippe Coutinho shot and Serge Gnabry scuffing a handful of golden chances.
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Squeezed into an unfamiliar front three by manager Osvaldo Bagnoli, the new signing looked unusually laboured as the team lurched towards the wrong end of Serie A. Soon enough, Bagnoli was sacked, with Inter going on to avoid the drop by a single point, finishing a lowly 13th.
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The lumbering, laboured Premier League behemoths went into their game against Swansea on the back of a midweek defeat to Fenerbahce in the Europa League, as well as a lacklustre home draw against Burnley at Old Trafford that had seen Jose Mourinho sent to the stands, and subsequently handed a one-match touchline ban.
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Although the blunt-but-laboured testimony of the 92-year-old mogul persuaded the judge that "further judicial involvement" was not necessary to protect Mr Redstone's well-being, the judge was careful to note that he was "not making any ultimate finding relating to Redstone's mental capacity, one way or another or whether he was unduly influenced".
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It is a strange fate that everything that I have, of set artistic purpose, laboured to leave indefinite, suggestive, in the penumbra of initial inspiration, should have that light turned on to it and its insignificance (as compared with I might say without megalomania the ampleness of my conceptions) exposed for any fool to comment upon. . . .
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Haye took the centre of the ring and dictated the pace of the fight for the vast majority of the first five rounds with Bellew happy to circle near the ropes looking for the counter, but Londoner Haye appeared laboured and had limited movement for the latter half of the fight, which was later attributed to a ruptured Achilles tendon.
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Her prose can be inattentive ("take the bull by the horns"; "putting on a brave face"); her account of the period's social and political unrest is laboured and lacking in fresh insights; and her consideration of the writing of Evelyn and Pepys suffers from a lack of comparison with that of the century's other great life-writers—one thinks of George Fox, a Quaker, or John Rogers, a member of the Fifth Monarchy, an extreme Puritan sect.
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It was an evocation through revenants, ghosts, of how memories of the Holocaust went on pulsing through the present, like the slow ripples of the river on which one Polish interviewee rowed and sang a Prussian song; or like the laboured clunking of a train in which an old railwayman stood, remembering how he had drunk vodka to mask the smell of burning bodies; or the rote recitation of railway stations by the German who ran the Department of Special Trains, still proud of ensuring that they got to Treblinka in time.
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