Job alliances, for example, draw works councils into company strategy.

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Indeed, Howell might be seen to be working in a tradition unrelated to clothes, alongside British artists and designers whose works draw inspiration from the land, such as David Mellor with his Sheffield steelworks, Peter Lanyon's landscape abstractions and the organic forms of Henry Moore.

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The artist is known for creating works which draw on historic films and photographs.

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No matter what the color of our skin or what beliefs we hold, all of us can draw lessons from the works of history.

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Elephant dung is one of many materials the artist uses in his works, which draw on collage techniques and employ acrylic paint, paper collage, glitter and map pins on canvas.

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Meanwhile, the even more mysterious dark energy works to drive the expansion of the Universe - to draw things apart.

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Some fear that the weekly draw may have to be shut down, while a new operator works to install new equipment in thousands of retail outlets.

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Yet these tools draw on decades of work that Hawkins has done on how the brain works.

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Mr Pugh, who currently works in London, has taken up the Thames challenge to draw attention to a campaign by environment organisation WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) to stop climate change.

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Countless works on paper, including one seemingly endless scroll, attest to his near-compulsive need to draw, expressing a joy for life that was tragically cut short.

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