The trouble at the coalface is that old chicken/egg conundrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Club in a Box] Reference

Professionals at the 'coalface' exercise a level of discretion & autonomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Mr Rudd said it would be a real help to know what it was like at the "coalface".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

We remember the coalface as we remember Maggie and The Nasty Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stressed at work?] Reference

Health Portal enabling hugely improved decision-making at the 'coalface'. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [E-Health Insider Primary Care News] Reference

In the meantime we must not despair and we must keep working at the coalface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Fingers to the Little People] Reference

He sniffed deeply, and smelled the coalface smell of his father's cogitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

From the coalface I can assure you that the world is indeed a very complex one.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The journalists are the eyes and ears of editors at the coalface of legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I would be interested to hear the views of those who are closer to the coalface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delivering Computerized Assessments Safely and Securely] Reference

They are at the coalface of the disease and stare suffering in the face every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at the 20th International Candlelight Memorial] Reference

At the educational coalface, Shuggy is feeling the strain as Christmas approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-27] Reference

It was cool, but not cold, and the wind smelled more strongly of coalface than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

Time to look in the bucket once again after another shift at the coalface of culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 April « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

Nice to see a voice of sanity returned to the Islamist coalface which was once Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This framework assigns responsibility to that sphere of government at the coalface of delivery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents:] Reference

I knew all the jargon from Mrs P's days at the educational coalface, but nothing of its origins.    From Wordnik.com.  [[education destroyed] one of the root causes] Reference

Maybe if it was the home office or something but the Police at the coalface would make a big deal of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Stick and a Small Carrot] Reference

Instead, the consent of the nation must be renewed each day, at the coalface of labour amongst the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY MANNE DIPICO - STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE] Reference

Bill Kerr a new name to me is someone at the coalface, and his post reveals some of the frustration he feels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

It is the young prepared in the coalface of the struggle to open our minds in institutions of higher learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY DUMISANI MAKHAYE, ANC NEC MEMBER, AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE OF COMRADE SIPHIWE ZUMA, THE LATE PRESIDENT OF SASCO] Reference

coalface sunbeam, that's a laugh coming from you, I lived in Durham when Maggie was destroying the coalface and the miners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stressed at work?] Reference

I'm generalising wildly of course? although it's an informed generalisation, based on 20 years at the coalface of men's bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body] Reference

When someone starts a business, they are at the coalface, dealing with customers, responsive to their needs and able to deliver.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

It s that condition symptomatic of homogenized luxury, when you ve been to the coalface of hotels throbbing with bling and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Owens: Italy's Secret Concierge] Reference

I smelled the sewage and oil smell, but none of the habitual smells of my father: Clean water, coalface, sulfur, grass, and lime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

It's that condition symptomatic of homogenized luxury, when you've been to the coalface of hotels throbbing with bling and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Owens: Italy's Secret Concierge] Reference

When they refused to go to the coalface, mine officials gave them the choice of returning to work, or being arrested by mine police.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. RULING CLASS RESPONSE] Reference

This is where I loose the chains of a lifetime of NHS coalface working, shake off all the worries and the rules and just have a good time.    From Wordnik.com.  [51 entries from August 2007] Reference

Multi-Purpose Centres and others place GCIS at the coalface of the re-engineering of government for integrated planning and implementation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

After all they are the ones on the coalface when things get weird or when you have to say no to something they might really want you to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [9 Ways to Prepare for NaNoWriMo « Write Anything] Reference

We, its citizens, who are very close to the coalface of change may not easily see the steady transformation that informs all aspects of our national life.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We, its citizens, who are very close to the coalface of change, may not easily see the steady transformation that informs all aspects of our national life….    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Marching into the African Century] Reference

Working class activists also have to be found at the coalface of these new instruments, besides their presence in these institutions as public sector employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Dad John had worked as a coalface worker at Wellington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference

"I think it's really important evidence for us at the community coalface," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Yes, it was to be a long afternoon at the coalface for Messrs Dickinson, Ford and Low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

No, they mean those at the bottom, the nurses, the teachers and those at the coalface doing crucial jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialist Party Main leads] Reference

He was at the coalface for some of the time and later obtained his deputy's ticket and worked on shot firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference