Local government was a crucial element of the social-democratic or Keynesian welfare state so laboriously constructed after the war.

Many images are confected ones; a miniature tableau is laboriously constructed, then photographed.

A giant siege tower with a battering ram was constructed and moved laboriously up the completed ramp.

Didn't their accomplishments, their laboriously constructed resumes, count for anything?

Of course, as has been shown, neither English nor humane education were simply "there", but had been laboriously constructed over a long period.

There were now so many paintings, laboriously constructed dot by dot (pointillism).

And we walk on laboriously constructed paths that permit no fatal missteps.

It was a poor moment to decide that the ship had left the big detection system, laboriously constructed over so many years, prematurely.

But all this laboriously constructed scaffolding of lies was shaken to its base and fell away piece by piece.

Every part has been laboriously constructed to that sole end.