| The hewers of wood have long claimed that slaughtering forests is good for the environment. |
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| It took 70,000 burden bearers, 80,000 stone hewers, 3,300 officers, and a forced levy of 30,000 subjects 13 years to finish. |
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| My concern is that we seem to get mired down and continue to think that we are hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| Never has it been a better time to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, not to mention miners and oilers. |
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| Lonely voices were raised in those boom years warning that Canadians were dangerously dependent on being hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| The only exception was the 1858-1859 time book which contained details on individual hewers ' productivity in terms of tubs mined, forward progress, and mine location. |
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| In effect, what happens is we are no longer hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| The people in western Canada are not going to be considered to be hewers of wood and drawers of water anymore. |
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| Coal was got by hand, hewers using picks and shovels in mines lit by candles. |
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| We were the hewers of wood and the sellers of ore. |
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| We are the hewers of wood, the drawers of water and the pumpers of oil. |
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| Clearly, Canadians do not want to be hewers of wood and carriers of water. |
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| Beyond our traditional role as hewers of wood and drillers of oil, every single Canadian enterprise is faced with a relentlessly intense new level of competition. |
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| But we also need to break down the social barriers, often most obvious at work, which limit some families' aspiration by convincing them that they are destined never to be more than hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| Apartheid survived for almost a half-century, a system based on the view that the only thing blacks were good for was to work as hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| We had these same arguments when we began the free trade discussions with the United States some 20 years ago, that we were going to lose jobs, lose our pensions, lose our water and become hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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