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Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
It scarcely needs me to point out that English word order is indescribably complex, so it is no small wonder that in a brief work like this, while the author has labored mightily (and successfully) to identify many of its features, she has inevitably failed to cover all contingencies.
His only interest in life was his farm, and he labored long and hard among the stones and the whins to wrest a living of sorts from the reluctant soil.
Four screenwriters, among them the great Bo Goldman ( Melvin and Howard , 1980; Shoot the Moon , 1982), labored on this moldy script, which features characters who ask questions that begin "Am I to understand that ...
The artists who populated the auterist canon--Howard Hawks and John Ford, pre-eminently--had labored within the constraints of the studio system.