Sentences with phrase «as a seamstress at»

Rosa's personal struggle against institutionalized racism reaches its zenith on the night of December 1, 1955, when, bone - weary after a long day's work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store, she refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man — and is promptly arrested.

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Her expertise as a seamstress came in handy one day when a bride staying at the hotel was forced to order a new dress the day before her wedding.

I'll get back to it soon - I'm a determined seamstress, I am - just as soon as I can look at it without cursing.

Ralph sets Nicholas up with a low wage work opportunity at an oppressive boarding school in Yorkshire; meanwhile, back in London, Ralph gets Kate work as a seamstress, but also subjects the young lady to many dehumanizing situations in order to get the investment of rich, old creep Sir Hawk (Edward Fox).

Piled high at one end of the room, the cloth then makes its way to a table where it is marked by squiggles and doodles in blue thread, as if the seamstress had recently departed for a coffee break.

Her retrospective at the Guggenheim translates one title, Fée Couturière, as seamstress fairy, explaining that it also puns on the name of a bird.

In 1970, she went to the United States intending to study law, but instead earned a degree (MA) in Asian History at Lone Mountain College (University of San Francisco) in 1972 where she supported herself as a seamstress and a typist.

On appeal, it was conceded that the judge's decision had been wrong as, on the judge's own findings of fact, if the RTA was to be ignored then the claimant would have still been able to earn sums, at least equivalent to those she had received as a care assistant, at the end of the acceleration period as a seamstress.

After those three months, sedentary employment as a seamstress was provided for her by the defendant at a similar wage.

I've loved those little guys since the first time I saw them last fall, and as a seamstress I have to restrain myself from feeling fabrics everywhere, including the «welcome to the worship center line» at our weekly church gathering.