7 sentences with 'manual'
Example sentences and phrases with the word manual and other words derived from it.
• « Osteopathy (Greek for bone disease), a manual technique for restoring movement and balance to the body's structure, is an example of an alternative therapy. »
• « The manual of Modern Devotion was called The Imitation of Christ, written in the mid-15th century and published in several later editions, which was so popular that its sales matched those of the Bible at the time. It promoted the idea of salvation without the need for the Church as an intermediary at all. »
• « Another famous group, the Luddites, destroyed factory equipment in a vain attempt to turn back the clock of industrialisation and return to the manual labour of artisans. »
• « The bourgeoisie had certain visible things that defined them as a class, literally "status symbols". They did no manual labour of any kind, and insisted on the highest standards of cleanliness and order in their appearance and their homes. »
• « Good hygiene became a matter of survival and a badge of class identity for the bourgeoisie, and the dirtiness inherent in manual labour was a further cause of bourgeois contempt for the working classes. »