labor - saving machinery造句

• Community health experts think that, through cars, escalators and other labor-saving machinery, America has engineered out its ability to get activity in.
• Chris Lehane, a spokesman for Gore, referred to the House Republican leaders as " Luddites " the group of early 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery as a protest.
• Others see themselves as " neo-Luddites, " successors of the early-19th-century British textile workers who smashed labor-saving machinery in the belief that the equipment threatened their jobs.
• Inspired by the mythic example of Ned Ludd, who had smashed an employer's knitting frames a generation earlier in Leicestershire, the Luddites stormed factories, wrecked labor-saving machinery and created general havoc, hoping to restore the old system of manufacturing.
• "Children watch more television daily, physical education has been markedly reduced in our schools, many neighborhoods lack sidewalks for safe walking, the workplace has become increasingly automated, household chores are assisted by labor-saving machinery, and walking or bicycling has been replaced by automobile travel, " the editorial said.
• In its final form, brought out by Foreman's own Ned Ludd Books ( named after the nineteenth-century British worker who destroyed labor-saving machinery ), " Ecodefense : A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching " gave practical, detailed instructions on how to decommission bulldozers, pull out survey stakes, spike trees, and generally harass and delay resource industry plans.
• Owned since 1988 by Tate & AMP; Lyle, the British food processing company, Staley said it would invest in labor-saving machinery; cut the workforce of 750 to 225 to 250 over several years, and institute 12-hour rotating shifts in which for one month, an employee works three days straight, 6 a . m . to 6 p . m ., then takes three days off.