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  • The distinguished film-maker Humphrey Jennings assembled a national portrait by collaging seaside snapshots with prospects of Beachy Head, stone circles with coal-miners and iron workers, the surreal detritus of coastal defence systems with gargoyle proles and Falstaffian ale-drinkers.

    The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011

  • Further, the coal-miners had never lost any love for the Greek fishermen, and were pretty certain to render us hearty assistance.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • United States, in the last fourteen years, a total of coal-miners, greater than our entire standing army, has been killed and injured.

    THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

  • Adani Power has gotten into deals with coal-miners in Indonesia to beef up its supply chain against the possibility of supply disruptions within India.

    A Greater Game for India's Energy Abheek Bhattacharya 2011

  • Secretaries are like coal-miners now, aren't they; they're a dying breed.

    Helen Simpson | Cockfosters 2011

  • Fortunately we no longer have the coal-miners nor coal mines dependent upon them that generated the worst of the disputes of the 1970s and 1980s.

    Archive 2008-01-13 2008

  • Fortunately we no longer have the coal-miners nor coal mines dependent upon them that generated the worst of the disputes of the 1970s and 1980s.

    Trouble 't Mill? 2008

  • For the US to create a clean energy future that we all realize is essential, we need to address first the economic needs and concerns of oil-workers and coal-miners and others who would be displaced and injured by a move to clean energy.

    Paul Abrams: Clean Energy Legislation Proponents Repeat Mistakes of Anti-Tobacco Movement 2010

  • For the US to create a clean energy future that we all realize is essential, we need to address first the economic needs and concerns of oil-workers and coal-miners and others who would be displaced and injured by a move to clean energy.

    Paul Abrams: Clean Energy Legislation Proponents Repeat Mistakes of Anti-Tobacco Movement 2010

  • Carbon capture and storage CCS, which coal-miners worldwide hope will guarantee a future for coal as an energy source, may not be viable, technically, economically, and in terms of liability.

    Does carbon capture and storage work??? GayandRight 2008

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