• Its razor-sharp leaves can maim, and workmen (called jimadores) who cut away the leaves to get at the heart must do a careful dance.

    FORBES: Mexican Invasion

  • The result for many pilgrims in 1998, has no doubt been closer to hell than heaven as JCBs, diggers, mechanical cranes and workmen in hard hats have made movement virtually impossible.

    BBC: Seeing chaos at Christmas

  • The body of Mr Suddards was discovered by a parishioner and two workmen on 14 February.

    BBC: Mr Suddards conducting a baptism

  • The body of Mr Suddards was discovered by a parishioner and two workmen.

    BBC: Rev John Suddards

  • Back in Massachusetts Susan built multiple home pages on the Web to promote the properties, e-mailed prospects, paid bills and scheduled workmen.

    FORBES: Beach House Bummer

  • Mirabeau, in his speech which decided the second great issue of paper, had insisted that, though bankers might suffer, this issue would be of great service to manufacturers and restore prosperity to them and their workmen.

    FORBES: Get Your Popcorn Ready To Watch The Coming Keynesian Self-Destruction

  • Not long after becoming Housing Minister, Deputy Power said he came across an email on a printer in the States building and with workmen around, he decided to take it home because of the sensitive nature of what it contained.

    BBC: Minister resigns after breaching data protection code

  • Other compromises were to follow after Mr. Ye hired a group of local Dali workmen and launched the renovation.

    WSJ: Inside the Home and Studio of Ye Yongqing

  • And recently, workmen can again be seen shovelling cement into mixers at a few brick factories in Gaza .

    BBC: Smuggling fuels Gaza's stalled economy

  • We squeeze past workmen and reach the head of the tunnel.

    BBC: London's underground boring renaissance

  • Peasants, workmen and students were among those who believed that a whole way of life, as well their own livelihoods, was threatened by the march of modernisation.

    ECONOMIST: Pierre Poujade

  • The recently smitten include: Errol (obviously), Lauren at No. 20, the Meals on Wheels lady, and several council workmen whom Magda battered with one of the stock of road cones she keeps in the front yard.

    NEWYORKER: Magda Mandela

  • " By the early 20th century Sherwin was making paint with lead-based pigment, even after the company published an article in 1904 warning that "white lead is poisonous in a large degree, both for the workmen and for the inhabitants of a house painted with white lead colors.

    FORBES: Chip Thrills

  • He exposes in print what clubby archaeologists from Oxford and Cambridge have long known but kept to themselves: that Evans was a mediocre field archaeologist, who relied on his skilled, hard-drinking assistant, Duncan Mackenzie, to manage the Cretan workmen and build a chronology for the different phases of occupation and destruction at Knossos.

    ECONOMIST: Bullshot

  • As we looped around the Velodrome at the one-mile mark, to the sounds of a samba band, the sun came out, glinting on the temporary fences, scaffolding and equipment still being used by the neon-jacketed workmen who waved and cheered on the runners -- and walkers.

    CNN: Crossing the Olympic finish line

  • Parents, nursery staff and even housing association workmen at her flat reported concerns but despite a child protection plan, there was a "fairly chaotic" approach to case planning, the report said.

    BBC: Kaiya Blake death serious case review cites failings

  • Mr Gourlay said some of the other workmen were alcoholics and William Connors had difficulty in stopping them drinking as he wanted them fit for work.

    BBC: Connors trial: Worker 'would have been found if he left'

  • Relations between Mr Mountney and the council deteriorated and on 12 February 1912, as the council was planning a new museum for the town, council workmen arrived at the castle and removed the exhibits.

    BBC: Exhibition marks custodian's death at Newark Castle

  • Inside the hot and dusty Bolshoi Ice Palace, workmen atop a mechanical arm installed wiring in a scoreboard above the hockey rink.

    WSJ: Menu

  • Its workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment.

    FORBES: Vacation Is Good for Business

  • Workmen are busily patching up the neighbouring buildings and repainting markings on the newly resurfaced road.

    ECONOMIST: After the bomb, Indonesia finds a new type of tourist

  • Mr Cooper told jurors he introduced Victor Mears to local workmen in order to finish the site on time and also provided animals, including reindeer and donkeys, but never received any money.

    BBC: Victor (left) and Henry Mears

  • Human and animal remains which may date back to the Iron Age have been found by workmen laying the foundations of a school in south London.

    BBC: Human and animal remains at the site

  • After several police appeals to find her, workmen found her decomposed remains in the River Kent in Cumbria in February 2004 and she was identified by her dental records and jewellery.

    BBC: Shafilea Ahmed death: Serious case review call by charity

  • Council workmen have begun clearing up beaches in west Wales that have been swamped with dead and dying shellfish.

    BBC: News | Wales | Sea urchins may have committed suicide

  • And in another example revealed by the BBC, John Hawthorn, from Blackpool, said the workmen took away the meter when he was away, even though he told them not to.

    BBC: British Gas mistakes revealed

  • Britain had to fall back on claims of safer, more competent and more scholarly stewardship: claims now demolished, almost literally, by the image of British workmen in overalls scraping their blades across the shoulders of the gods.

    ECONOMIST: Scraping the marbles

  • One of the workmen actually testified he was out of the state for seven of the weeks that had been billed and absorbed by Stevens' benefactor.

    NPR: Judge In Stevens Trial: Some Evidence Tainted

  • The workmen were ready with the net: they wrapped it around the moon, trapping it between the net and the ground.

    NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

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