Sentences with phrase «as hired hands»

We know they'll become the core of the Abstract Expressionist movement, but at the time of The Muralist they're all working in New York as hired hands for the WPA, the Roosevelt administration's effort to put cash in the pockets of starving artists in exchange for creating work that will lift the spirits of Depression - era Americans.

Businesses in North America, when they do hire young creators, want them to work as hired hands on properties owned or licensed by them.

He says a researcher should then follow up this postdoc with a one - year placement in a company, whether it's by «sweat equity» — working for free at an internship — or as a hired hand.

As a hired hand in Syriana he didn't really tout too much high - powered weaponry and in Three Kings it was handguns and leadership.

It's one of the rare titles developed by Tose that the company actually put its name on; it usually works behind the scenes as a hired hand, helping with ports and compilations.

Not exact matches

If you find that you are still using a hands - on approach as you hire your fifth salesperson, you're doing it wrong.

His plan was to step away, again, this summer, when he was scheduled to hand the CEO reins to longtime lieutenant Keith Creel and start a three - year tenure as a consultant (or, in his own words, a «hired hand») to the railway.

As the years went by and his E-business consulting company prospered, Salonek turned over the role of selling to hired hands.

As the leader, you need to set the tone that employees are not mere hired hands but people with needs, desires and dreams.

On - demand platforms give instant, mobile booking and payment features directly in the hands of clients, so hiring someone to perform a three bedroom clean (for example) is as easy as ordering a movie or requesting an Uber.

As a startup founder you want to move fast to get your vision up and running but not taking the time to hire correctly from the start could leave you with the wrong people for the job at hand.

Just as when you hire a new employee, there are security risks involved when handing tasks over to an outsourced provider.

Some Chinese companies will pay men $ 1,000 a week to don a business suit and shake hands with Chinese businessmen, while others will hire foreigners to attend real - estate events and pose as celebrities.

This will allow you to hire more employees to keep revenue flowing and ensure that your business continues to grow — as long as it's managed properly and you don't trip over your shoelaces as you start running faster with bigger projects on your hands.

Spending the time to talk to people about their lives outside work shows a genuine interest in them as individuals and sends a message that they're more than just hired hands.

This comes just nine months after the Labor Department sued Google for not handing over 19 years of pay data on 21,000 Google employees for a routine audit into the company's pay methods, as part of that department's attempt to show whether Google's hiring discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other factors.

As your business grows, some of your new hires may need hands - on training.

To be categorized as self - employed and also the business owner, the individual must be hands - on enough rather than hiring employees to do the different tasks including managerial activities.

Tony Jones, Brian McLaren and the Emergent Crowd have sent many a «hired hand» to post negative posts here about Tony Jones» ex-wife Julie, David, and to try to get control again of the narrative (as everybody has noticed).

On the other hand, was she hired simply as a clerk or other unrelated position then shifted over to gift wrapping?

The prodigal son, after he had squandered all his father's money on whores and a life of debauchery, finally ending up craving pig - slop for food, decides to return to his father and beg for a chance just to work as one of his hired hands.

Hired hands as we say in the Old West.

Because he was not in favor of making the league too lively, Commissioner Charles refused to sanction the hiring of such obvious wild - card prospects as a trick - shot artist who could roll seven balls down the alley simultaneously or a California chimpanzee who bowled with both hands.

On offense, the Vikings will mostly be left in the hands of whomever is hired as the offensive coordinator.

On the other hand, that quote, in my opinion, is spot on to support a comment on what she was hired to do and very likely will do — provide value to the organization as a whole and the individual players that she works with and that follow her recommendations in keeping the roster, as a whole and over a period of time, healthier.

So it just boggles my mind that a lay person who knows next to nothing about childbirth thinks she can hire herself out as a midwife, risk the lives of her clients and their infants and then dust off her hands and say «oh well» when something like this happens.

Mr. Giuliani, who hired Mr. Lhota as his budget director and later promoted him to become his «right - hand» man, went on to charge Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio misled the public and demanded an apology.

The current hands are Geoff Berman, executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee, and Metropolitan Public Strategies, which the party hired as an outside consultant in January.

Wadhams, whose hiring was first reported last week by City and State, mostly stayed in the background, standing by quietly as Long shook some hands, then suggesting it was time to get upstairs for her speech after she had spent about ten minutes talking to reporters.

On the day before his second anniversary as Labour leader, Kinnock delivered his celebrated assault on Labour's Militant Tendency (`... the grotesque spectacle of a Labour council — a LABOUR council — hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers...»).

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

«Symbolically, it's important because by the end they were sort of accepting us as true faculty members, not just hired hands.»

On the other hand, a recent faculty hire will not have had a chance to accumulate a track record as a trainer of graduate students.

As such, I'd like to expand our healthcare community by hiring or creating an alliance with other like - minded practitioners with the helping hand of some sort of template.

One can see why Marvel hired him; his is a steady hand when it comes to the drama as well as the action (which is plentiful and well - staged).

This video tells the story about a Texas farm family who is impacted by a Swedish hired hand as adapted from Katherine Anne Porter's short story.

A case in point is Peter Fonda's directorial debut The Hired Hand (1971), a sensitive, deliberately paced western which Universal attempted to sell as a combination of an Easy Rider sequel and an action - revenge oater.

But whether it's dipping in for the pilot and then handing the reins to a showrunner and moving into a producing capacity, as per David Fincher and «House of Cards,» or merely coming on board as a director for hire to give a project a profile boost, it seems every week or so we're reporting on another big - screen directing star spinning the small - screen roulette wheel.

I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didn't stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch.

I guess it reminds a little of stuff like The Hired Hand in terms of pacing, but it washes out as an unpleasant - to - no - useful - end frontier melodrama.

The year following Five Easy Pieces brought a number of such figures — the titular protagonists of El Topo, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, and Billy Jack — as well as the flowering of the hippie western (Fonda's The Hired Hand, Hopper's The Last Movie, Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller).

The opening credit sequence, which unfolds as a series of smooth pans and tilts across extreme close - ups of baroque, CG - kissed headgear and flower - enmeshed skulls, soon gives way to ratty old videotape of the designer in his pre-Givenchy days, punning on «haute couture» and looking more like a hired hand than like one of the most influential designers of the late twentieth century.

3:45 am (30th)-- IFC — The Piano I often find Jane Campion films overly pretentious, but this one strikes the right chord, with Holly Hunter as a mute woman in an arranged marriage who finds love with one of her husbands» hired hands — but stealing the show is her young daughter, an Oscar - winning performance by Anna Paquin.

Based on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, the raunchy tale was written and directed by Jeff Baena, as Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci in turn play foul - mouthed nuns who can't help but prey upon the hired hand that is Dave Franco.

There's a strong sense of community in the film as well: in addition to Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, and the hired hands, Professor Marvel, the inspiration for the Wizard of Oz, is there at Dorothy's bedside when she wakes up.

In 2011, when I was hired by Burlington Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist, I was handed two concept courses by then - principal Patrick Larkin.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first thire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first tHire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

Starting out as an artist in the schools 20 years ago, I was hired to perform in the auditorium, engage small groups of students in hands - on arts activities, and share with children...

At first, Robinson was her fifth - grade math teacher, but then their paths continued to cross as he became her junior high school assistant principal, then high school principal, then principal for whom she worked, then colleague and, finally, hired hand!

With that additional money in hand, it seems obvious that schools below the cutoff would be doing more improvements than schools above the cutoff, such as using different instructional approaches, different hiring practices, developing teachers and principals and so on.