Sentences with phrase «as by occupation»

A Wage Board could also be used to institute a minimum wage in New York City that is higher than the state minimum, because the law allows a board to raise inadequate pay by locality as well as by occupation.

Not exact matches

The technical feasibility of automation is best analyzed by looking not at occupations as a whole, but at the amount of time spent on individual activities, and the degree to which these could be automated by using technology that currently exists and adapting it to individual work activities.

If you're looking for a job that has you ensuring others are abiding by certain standards and regulations, then you might want to consider a profession as a health and occupation inspector.

In management occupations it's 2 %, and within that category, unemployment in «business and financial occupations» as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a near - invisible 1.7 %, equaling the lowest unemployment rate among all job classifications economywide.

This group of occupations has an unemployment rate of just over 1 per cent and wages that are «rising by an average annual rate of 3.9 per cent — more than double the rate seen in the economy as a whole.»

The bill would revoke a law that allows for the suspension of various different licenses issued by the Division of Consumer Affairs ranging from occupations such as architecture and cosmetology to dentistry and social work (just to name a few).

That religious and ethnic factions have turned on the occupation forces, and on each other as the power vacuum was not fully filled by the coalition - backed new democratic government.

This number is expected to increase by more than 82,000 by the year 2026, growing by as much as 7 percent, which is the national average for all related occupations combined.

The writ petition filed by Kali Digital claims that the decision of the Reserve Bank to deny services to crypto traders and exchanges violates various acts of the Indian constitution - Article 19 (1)(g) and Article 14 - which promise individuals a fair treatment among the eyes of law, as well as the freedom to practice any business or occupation of their choice.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

For those who by occupation or obsession (or a mix of both) monitor such things, the Times is as good a window as we have into the perversities of what passes for — because, unfortunately, it is — our high culture.

This is a point emphasized by the Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, writing in 1942 in America as an exile from his native France, then under Nazi occupation.

This is now being properly researched by historians like Dr Foa, who insists that, as a result, we can be sure that the «more recent image of the aid given to Jews by the Church arises not from pro-Catholicideological positions, but above all from thorough research into the lives of Jews during the occupation, from the reconstruction of the stories of families or individuals.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

For example, classifications by age, sex, occupation, and income are relevant to such practical matters as insurance rates, clothing, hours of work, and taxes, respectively.

He sides against those so enervated by tranquil and sedentary occupations they whine incessantly with the most minimal techno - breakdown and find themselves so locked up in themselves and their screens that they think of marriage and parenthood as forms of oppression.

He had put himself and his first wife through professional school (she, a Ph.D. physiologist; he, a law student on the law review) by working as a Customs Inspector, a droll occupation for a political radical.

And it is ridiculous for American unipolarists to insist that any conceivable American occupation of Iraq, North Korea, Iran or Syria in the wake of the carnage and killing of war will be welcomed as a liberation by the majorities of these countries populations.

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

«Professional ethics» are not as explicitly defined as in some occupations because they are for the most part inherent in the nature of the enterprise or are enforced by the operations of the scientific community itself.

Class status is defined by such matters as occupation, the length of a family's residence in a community, income and property, the quality and place of residence, the mores and values which guide them, and education.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

But if aggression were contemplated, an adversary would have to consider that any country with the foresight and courage to disarm unilaterally would have equal courage and foresight in protecting itself by a program of nonviolent resistance of such magnitude as to preclude any successful occupation.

When I was recently called for jury duty, the attorney, after asking my husband's occupation, repeatedly prefaced his interrogation by saying, «As a minister's wife, I assume you..»

The violence which has broken out has been a natural response of a people desiring its independence from this continued occupation, which involves an Israeli siege of Palestinian cities and towns, not vice versa as is so often claimed by the media.

Given the challenges it faced over the centuries» most notably the rise, in the seventh century, of Islam, which deprived the empire of much of its wealthiest territory, and the brutal occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century» its longevity as well as its brilliance is remarkable.

«We the people» are identified by our occupations, and we make up a citizenry defined as an all - inclusive «special - interest group,» chiefly concerned with «a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans.»

LOL Re: «magnificent new channel» from creationtard Eric Hovind — son of convicted tax dodger Kent Hovind whose occupation is listed by Wikipedia as «Evangelist, Christian theme park operator» and whose residence is listed as «incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Berlin, New Hampshire by the Federal Bureau of Prisons».

After the occupation, when the Americans took a religious census in connection with the religious legislation carried out by them, it was found, to their great surprise, that Japan, with only 89,000,000 inhabitants, registered 135,000,000 as the number of the faithful of all religious groups.

The Philippines, mostly Roman Catholic as the result of the Spanish occupation, were somnolent until nationalism stirred early in the 1890's and annexation by the United States occurred (1899).

They also often reject any role for governments in addressing social - economic problems, such as unemployment or the low wages earned by workers who are trapped in unskilled occupations or isolated in central cities, where financial and physical infrastructures are inadequate and social networks are weak.

Missions won many of the aborigines — Indians and Eskimos — to the Christian faith, and white occupation was not accompanied by as extensive wars and exploitation of non-whites as took place in the United States.

The speech also includes in its present form some indication of the relatively slow progress of the occupation and acquisition of Canaan: «Little by little I will drive them out from before you» (vs. 30); and it refers to some force, designated as «hornets» (vs. 28; see Deut.

As things now stand, foreigners in Tokyo must grope their way around town by looking for weather - beaten wooden arrows erected years ago by the occupation forces when they made a stab at sorting out the main streets by letters and numbers.

Seen as a way of challenging capitalistic dispossession, occupations were coordinated and helped by leftist political parties and other groups.

They argue that this would free Palestinians of the political and economic restrictions imposed by the Oslo Accords while preventing Israel from using it as a cover to entrench its occupation.

Both East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been under Israeli occupation since 1967 but neither is recognised by the international community as Israeli territory.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

Nearly half of the 807 titles covered by the state Labor Department's Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey — a total of 358 occupations, including an array of clerical as well as blue - collar positions — have entry - level wages starting at less than the $ 31,200 - a-year annualized equivalent of $ 15 per hour.

Arcuri's campaign said it wondered whether Hanna's disclosure forms were complete because many of the entries lacked listings of the occupation or employer of donors, as required by law.

As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit - making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality.

Anything that makes the occupation more permanent or assists them in any way is not seen as a good thing by many people.»

«It would be all too easy for Labour leadership candidates to please their natural supporters by accusing the Lib Dems of being collaborators — a word John Prescott used to describe his former colleague John Hutton, advising the Government on pensions — as if we were now living under Nazi occupation.

Life at the Bottleneck by Ruth Müller, 26 October 2012 Upon realizing, as a scholar of science and technology studies, that success and failure in academia depend on more than personal effort, Ruth Müller made it a point to identify other potential interests and fields of occupation to increase her resilience to career anxieties.

As of 2006, an estimated 36 percent of the world's workers are employed in agriculture (down from 42 % in 1996), making it by far the most common occupation.

Archaeologists are getting their first look at how a nearly year - long occupation by the group known as the Islamic State (IS) has affected the World Heritage Site of Palmyra in Syria.

This job category was followed by «other professionals, associate professionals and technicians,» including energy and safety analysts (17.5 %); «business, HR, and finance professionals» (12.3 %); «retail, catering, waiting and bar staff» (11.7 %); «other occupations» such as canvassers at district councils (6.3 %); and «marketing, PR and sales professionals» (5.3 %).

Being a short man or an overweight woman is associated with lower chances in life in areas such as education, occupation, and income, concludes a study published by The BMJ today.