| Below dark cliffs and mossy overhangs lay olive groves, entire slopes terraced with backbreaking plots of retaining walls and water channels. |
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| They, and the man taking their pictures, are snatching moments between bursts of intense, backbreaking work. |
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| Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor. |
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| For fishermen, new wartime technologies made fishing safer and more productive and significantly eased the backbreaking nature of the work. |
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| Today, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze. |
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| Digging through frozen piles of litter with only an ice axe and a sack is backbreaking and unprofitable. |
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| None of the broken fence palings were really long enough to reach across the gap any more, but after two or three minutes of backbreaking work, I constructed this. |
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| According to political lore, patriot-Americans do the backbreaking work that keeps the country humming. |
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| I was imprisoned nearby, then transferred to Flossenbürg to do backbreaking work at a quarry. |
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| Not only must she cook Osias' meals, clean his mud-brick house, and tend the goats, but Darlene must also trudge off each day to a backbreaking job in the sugar-cane fields. |
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| His mother supported the children, all five of them, by carrying water and night soil for hire, a backbreaking labor that made her shorter by several inches. |
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| In sub-Saharan Africa, millions of labour hours are wasted, especially by women, who are often subjected to this backbreaking work. |
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| The new bridge will cut their backbreaking journey to Kandahar by five kilometers. |
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| How many of these working children will have the motivation and physical energy to attend school after hours of backbreaking work? |
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| For many millions the tools and technology they use are as old as their toil is backbreaking. |
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| The work I did in the camp was so backbreaking that I lost tissue in my spine. |
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| An officer can order them to provide a month of backbreaking, uncompensated labour for the local battalion. |
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| Today, tourists would not be visiting Egypt were it not for the hard, backbreaking work of the quarrymen so many thousands of years ago. |
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| Pitifully little is produced in the underdeveloped world by lifelong backbreaking labour. |
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| Their equipment is very basic and the backbreaking work in the heavy heat from sunrise to sunset, team or family. |
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| However, what may be a wing-spreading experience for you can be a backbreaking endeavour for the environment. |
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| Proletarian labor remains repetitive, backbreaking and often dangerous. |
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| Fourth Uncle doesn't say much, and fishing is backbreaking work. |
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| It was backbreaking work, but they make a good team, Mark and Tracey. |
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| Her ancestors can rest in peace, since the pastures left by their many decades of backbreaking work will be preserved as well as the ghost-creating marshes. |
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| This backbreaking work was mostly done with axes and hoes. |
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| Top executives were jettisoned, huge fines imposed, and the pair were hit with portfolio caps and higher capital requirements. The journey to redemption has been backbreaking. |
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| Two games later, he finished Detroit with a variety of backbreaking shots down the stretch, including a ludicrous 15-foot lefty banker that had to be seen to be believed. |
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| And there, in his uneasy bed, the Gudgers, as they rose for another day of backbreaking labor, found him — their recording angel, ready to observe and write again. |
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| This backbreaking, low-paid work was very useful since the economy slowed down in the winter, while workers had to pay for increased heating costs and other expenses related to the cold weather, without any public assistance. |
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| The rapid growth of agriculture on the prairies, attained largely through the backbreaking efforts of the European newcomers, provided rich new markets for manufactured products and the railways. |
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| The 30-kilometre vineyards along Lake Geneva are not only a bountiful gift of nature but are also testament to centuries of backbreaking human toil. |
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| They chose the crop despite the fact that it demanded long days of backbreaking, manual labor that damaged the soil, which in turn forced coca-farming families to migrate every four years. |
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| Clearing trees and starting crops on virgin fields was harsh and backbreaking work. |
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| Yes, washday was a drudge, backbreaking work, Now it's press a button, no one needs to shirk. |
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| Although they were successful in convincing many to settle at the mission to begin a life of backbreaking labor, it was soon clear that the Coast Miwoks were not thriving. |
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| Backbreaking work, all that stooping but I had been warned, even discouraged from going. |
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