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Example sentences for "workforce"

Lexicographically close words:
worker; workers; workes; workest; worketh; workhouse; workhouses; workin; working; workingman
  1. Officially, in excess of one third of the workforce is unemployed.

  2. A complex system of incentives and disincentives drives the workforce to dedication and industriousness.

  3. Others were drained of almost one half of the growth in their educated workforce (for instance, Israel during the 1980s).

  4. With cheap, educated workforce - they can monopolize basic data processing and telecommunications functions worldwide.

  5. The great majority of households gain their livelihoods from subsistence farming and migrant labor; a large portion of the adult male workforce is employed in South African mines.

  6. Unemployment looms as a serious problem with roughly 25% of the workforce without jobs and with population growth swelling the ranks of the unemployed yearly.

  7. The government's long-run economic goal is the modernization of Portuguese markets, industry, infrastructure, and workforce in order to catch up with productivity and income levels of the more advanced EU countries.

  8. Unemployment looms as the most serious problem with over 25% of the workforce without jobs and population growth swelling the ranks of the unemployed yearly.

  9. They employ less than one fifth of the workforce (compared to two thirds in the European Union and in many other countries in transition).

  10. It is the sense of Congress that the implementation of this section is intended to reshape the Federal workforce and not downsize the Federal workforce.

  11. Dependence on oil and a large expatriate workforce are significant long-term challenges.

  12. The resulting influx of non-resident workers, who totaled one-fifth of the workforce in 2006, has fueled tensions among some segments of the population.

  13. America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free, sent a generation of GIs to college, trained the best workforce in the world.

  14. Talk to the small business in Phoenix that will triple its workforce because of the Recovery Act.

  15. In today's economy, when having both parents in the workforce is an economic necessity for many families, we need affordable, high-quality childcare more than ever.

  16. I'm also convinced we can help Americans return to the workforce faster by reforming unemployment insurance so that it's more effective in today's economy.

  17. My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of a workforce that turned out the best products on Earth.

  18. To give working families a fair shot, we still need more employers to see beyond next quarter's earnings and recognize that investing in their workforce is in their company's long-term interest.

  19. During World War II, when men like my grandfather went off to war, having women like my grandmother in the workforce was a national security priority, so this country provided universal childcare.

  20. She also wanted to be able to chat with the increasingly Hispanic workforce in restaurants and delis.

  21. This building was built just before the prior turn of the century, and it was intended to house a small workforce of cooks and nannies and seamstresses below stairs.

  22. Schools used to be able to prepare students to find their place in the workforce even before graduation.

  23. But literacy projected its characteristics onto the entire activity, thus making a literate workforce desirable.

  24. More time was available for study because industrial society discovered that a qualified workforce was more productive once machines become more complicated.

  25. Services are the major source of economic growth, though two-thirds of the workforce is in agriculture.

  26. Unemployment at one-third of the workforce remains a critical economic problem.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workforce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.