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January 21, 2009

manpower

Manpower

manpower (noun) - the number of workers to do a task or project (either workers needed or workers available)

a manpower shortage 

trained manpower 
skilled manpower 
manpower  needs
need for properly trained manpower
need for manpower with the right skill set
highly qualified manpower

don't have the manpower to carry out these tasks
hampered by chronic manpower, training, equipment and financial constraints
pouring even more manpower into the struggle

they sent no money and no manpower
available manpower
muster all available manpower

efficient use of manpower
call out all available manpower
how many years is it going to be before the medical technology catches up with the manpower?
Now they want to put their manpower where it's more urgently needed

diverted a great deal of manpower from other operations to the project
they supply the manpower and we supply the materials

most state agencies do not have the money or manpower to ensure that all regulations are being carried out

Manpower shortages and waves of crime have turned most big-city cops into reactive figures

the money and manpower essential to a military victory
in a manpower crunch, eliminated round-the-clock supervision

there was a 95 percent manpower turnover as a result of the beriberi, yellow fever, dysentery, pneumonia,

available manpower
best use of the available manpower
ensure best use of the available manpower
review to ensure best use of the available manpower

undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower
temporary manpower

reduction in the importance of manpower with intensive use of capital
Adherence to agreed manpower limits

large corporations donating weeks of manpower and supplies
Manpower could be replaced by technology
alarming, crisis of manpower and resources
the abundance of manpower

lacking raw material and manpower
we don't have the manpower to make use of this technology
Manpower training is needed
Automation and other changes threaten to reduce the need for assembly line manpower

But we know how to farm with less manpower, less water and more profit.
assailed Congress for not giving the Coast Guard the money and manpower to do its job right.
there should not be a problem of competition for manpower between civilian and military uses

allocation of manpower to the project
manpower requirements
each manager has a right to money and manpower resources

chronic lack of skilled manpower
there is not the time, the manpower or even the need to carry out these tasks
increase in demand for service manpower
machinery was not highly automated and manpower was important

demands made upon England, in money and manpower

management's growing need for up-to-date, accurate information about company manpower
manpower reductions, factory reconfiguration and the acceptance of a vital cost improvement agreement
the growth of manpower
manpower and training requirements

scientific manpower
lack of manpower, lack of resources, lack of money.


Example sentences:

* Has this increase in manpower and resources been effective?

 * Money and skilled manpower are the main constraints.

* Each manager has a right to money and manpower resources depending only on his level of seniority and not on his track record.

* Numerous conditions may be attached to the donor's disbursement of funds, such as the allocation of manpower to the project, or a change in pricing policy.

* The demands made upon England, in money and manpower, for the defence of the Angevin inheritance are well known and have been intensively studied.

 * When one looks at the use of highly qualified manpower within this shifting labour market, the picture is further complicated by the phenomenon of substitution.

* When computerised personnel systems are discussed, it is often assumed that the kind of thing in question is interrogating personnel records, salary modelling and manpower planning.

* Over time the rhetoric of government spokesmen has changed to boasting of how much more manpower (doctors and nurses) and money is devoted to the NHS, compared to 1979.

* Alexander seems to have shared this insouciant attitude to the economic problem, arguing at one stage that there should not be a problem of competition for manpower between civilian and military uses as a slight increase in productivity would solve the manpower gap.

* In the past, machinery was not highly automated and manpower was important.

*  High illiteracy rates and a chronic lack of skilled manpower meant that the new government regarded educational provision as politically and economically important and popular demand for it at all levels was considerable.

 * In its view, there is not the time, the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense.

*  The prospect of a long war with the inevitable increase in demand for service manpower was a critical factor.

* The intensive use of capital for highly automated products leads to a reduction in the importance of manpower.

* And it was the earls who could produce the great and so necessary manpower.

* A narrow gauge track ran along the platform surface, its polished rails carrying the 16mm colour film camera and cameraman on a four wheeled dolly, pushed along by manpower and matching the pace of the train.

* For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon, and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late, that she was a frontier province of the Greek world; beyond lay Illyrians, Dardanians and Thracians, and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe, undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower.

* Adherence to agreed manpower limits is complicated by the fact that the Department of Health counts doctors in post, whereas counting the establishment is the only realistic way of planning locally.

* This need arose either through specific statutory requirements or alternatively through management's growing need for up-to-date, accurate information about company manpower.

* The recommendations of a study especially conducted in early 1992 have been largely implemented involving manpower reductions, factory reconfiguration and the acceptance of a vital cost improvement agreement by the Waterford workforce.

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