Sentences with phrase «as day laborers»

The only employment they are allowed would be as day laborers on third world construction projects building coal and natural gas electrical generation plants and electrical distribution grids.

Alternately as day laborers on potable water treatment systems, sewage systems and their associated pipeline networks.

She still remembers the struggles her parents faced as day laborers in New York City... But a new investment by the New York City Council might help improve the quality of life of day laborers and their families.

This includes folks who find assignments via digital platforms such as TaskRabbit and Upwork, as well as day laborers who get picked up on a street corner and are driven to a construction site.

The greatest example of this in the eyes of Napoleon Hill is Charles Schwab, who started as a day laborer in one of Andrew Carnegie's steel factories.

She had to leave her boys with a sister so she could work in a coconut estate as a day laborer, while her husband, who is completely illiterate, works in a chili grinding mill.

He also worked as a day laborer and is the first in his family to go to college.

Synopsis: During the Great Depression, ex-boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) works as a day laborer until his former manager Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) o...

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But most contemporary scholars say it's more likely a general craftsman; some even translate it as «day laborer.»

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

If I were to imagine to myself a day - laborer and the mightiest emperor that ever lived, and were to imagine that this mighty Emperor took a notion to send for the poor man, who never had dreamed, «neither had it entered into his heart to believe,» that the Emperor knew of his existence, and who therefore would think himself indescribably fortunate if merely he was permitted once to see the Emperor, and would recount it to his children and children's children as the most important event of his life — but suppose the Emperor sent for him and informed him that he wished to have him for his son - in - law... what then?

We are actively doing our part as FT partners in the Breedekloof, having not only build two after - school computer and day care centers for the laborers» children but also by recently acquiring a nearby farm which is 100 % FT (all shares belong to the FT partners / laborers).

One of the earliest proponents of high protein diets was the distinguished German physiologist Dr. Carl Voit (1831 - 1908).1, 2 After studying laborers who consumed approximately 3100 Calories daily, he concluded that protein intake for people should be 118 grams (g) per day — this value became known as the «Voit standard.»

As great as that film and its beautifully inflected father - son relationship are, Wallace Beery as the slow - witted but lovable lead doesn't achieve the complex characterization Takeshi Sakamoto does in the equivalent role of a day laborer, and Jackie Cooper as Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's soAs great as that film and its beautifully inflected father - son relationship are, Wallace Beery as the slow - witted but lovable lead doesn't achieve the complex characterization Takeshi Sakamoto does in the equivalent role of a day laborer, and Jackie Cooper as Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's soas that film and its beautifully inflected father - son relationship are, Wallace Beery as the slow - witted but lovable lead doesn't achieve the complex characterization Takeshi Sakamoto does in the equivalent role of a day laborer, and Jackie Cooper as Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's soas the slow - witted but lovable lead doesn't achieve the complex characterization Takeshi Sakamoto does in the equivalent role of a day laborer, and Jackie Cooper as Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's soas Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's soas Sakamoto's son.

Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

He started working as an undocumented day laborer before becoming an artist.

Cage once laughingly referred to his role as that of «an unpaid day - laborer,» 29 and he always acknowledged Rauschenberg as the originator of the idea.

The painting that gives the show its title, Late America, was painted just after the American presidential elections; in it a young boy draped in an American flag looks over a naked older man lying in a fetal position at the edge of a pool as two day laborers work in the background.

Opening: «John Sonsini» at Ameringer McEnery Yohe A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

The beach south of Cox's Bazar in the country's Chittagong Division is, as Bangladeshis proudly proclaim, the world's longest and the government was using thousands of day laborers in an attempt to preserve an area where so many people including Burmese refugees live so close to the tide line.

Once its treeplanting technology, which is said to be «an air gun - like system that shoots seeds into the soil at speeds on par with a BB gun,» is fully developed, DroneSeed believes that its drones could plant as many as 800 seeds per hour, compared with a human laborer planting about 800 seeds per day.

There's the case of the 25 - year - old day laborer who was seriously injured while riding as a passenger in a car pulling a trailer on his way to the lake with a few of his friends.

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