Sentences with phrase «at hard labor»

This was Wilde's prison number at Reading Gaol, where he was confined at hard labor, never allowed to speak, and made to sleep in his own feces on a plank inches from the cold stone floor.

Both sources described the trip as a «private humanitarian mission» to free Gomes, a 31 year - old Boston resident who was sentenced in April to eight years at a hard labor camp for illegally crossing North Korea's border with China and for an unspecified «hostile act.»

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Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

Put another way, it's harder to find labor in the U.S. right now than at any point in recent history.

From a labor market perspective, we think it is hard to justify maintaining interest rates at zero or to pursue a negative - interest rate policy in the United States.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

Our forebears learned the practical effects of collectivist methods: No one in a commune feels a personal motive to stay up at night with a sick cow (someone else will do it, I'm too tired), and the hardest workers who observe the loafers and free riders will begin to reduce their own labors.

Mrs. Mueller had apparently labored hard to instill fear of all things flabby in her young son, awakening him daily at 6 A.M. for strained carrot juice, a brisk jog around Baltimore's Lake Ashburton and «a grueling order of calisthenics» before sending him, exhausted, off to school.

Contemporary aristocrats — the people with the best education and the greatest ability — labor harder than ever at their increasingly complex tasks, while people with lesser endowments of energy and intelligence now have time to spare.

While most Americans spend their Labor Day weekend savoring the last moments of summer vacation, political scientists are normally hard at work at their annual association meeting, held this year in Seattle.

The point is that the science that says the earth is ~ 4.5 billion years old is rooted in thousands of years of hard scientific labor in arriving at what we know today; the number may be 4.

Labor and delivery can be very hard on your body so you need to wait at least six weeks until you start to take active steps towards losing weight.

Sleeping arrangements: It is hard to predict how long labor will last and at what time it will begin and end.

An example is, we can be in hard labor, uncomfortable, trying to have our peace and privacy, but our husband will want his dad and mom, to stand at our vagina and watch the baby emerge.

In our one - on - one and community care sessions, there were so many things my midwives said about labor and delivery that, thankfully, turned out to be true (as hard as they were to believe, especially at the time).

In our delirium as we headed to the hospital, we completely forgot to bring the two cases of coconut water, hard boiled eggs, almond butter, energy bars, etc. that we had ready to go for labor at home.

Labor is considered hard now and often painful... at the least, strong and intense.

Labor of Lunch (5 min) Making from - scratch meals for 5,000 kids is hard work for everyone, and it happens every day at the Berkeley Public Schools Central Kitchen.

It can be hard to choose, but for the first trimester, I would steer away from the heavier stuff about the mechanics of labor and birth and focus on books that meet your nutritional and emotional needs at the moment.

Labor is hard work and it is painful at times, but knowing and expecting the different stages so the fear of the unknown isn't there can make a tremendous difference.

The AFL - CIO has been pushing back hard in particular against the mayor's plan as well, while a rally of labor groups was held at the Capitol today to back the prevailing wage component.

Article 316: Thefts that are committed at night by two or more persons and at least one of them carries a manifest or hidden arm shall be punished for with temporary hard labor.

The Labor Movement will engage our members at the local level to make sure hard working New Yorkers, not corporate special interests, decide who represents us in Washington,» said union President Mario Cilento.

For ultimately proving themselves not enamored of the war in Iraq, for coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery star.

The Labor Movement will engage our members at the local level to make sure hard working New Yorkers, not corporate special interests, decide who represents us in Washington,» added Cilento.

Opponents of a convention fear opening up the constitution could put at risk hard - won labor and environmental protections, among others.

Taking a dig at a top rival in the race, former Assemblyman Barry Grodenchik, the spokesman added that it was a «hard choice» between endorsing Ms. Lynch and attorney Ali Najmi, another Democrat running in the primary without any organized labor endorsements.

When talking about manly physical activities, nothing beats hard manual labor — in our modern world where most men work at a desk all day long, it's understandable that the average male physique is weak and flabby instead of strong and athletic.

Labor is hard work and it is painful at times, but knowing and expecting the different stages so the fear of the unknown isn't there can make a tremendous difference.

• Talking casually: recovery pace / easy • 1 to 2 sentences at a time: endurance pace / moderate • 2 to 3 words at a time: labored breathing / hard

Without the days of hard labor at home, the hospital would certainly have forced me into a c - section.

Hubby and I got lunch at a Greek restaurant, though it is hard to eat in labor.

I should have mentioned probably that I am 28 so still young in that respect, and I work a manual labor job for the most part (sometimes we have really slow days at the shop) I find it hard to figure my exact genetic disposition in regard to muscle gain / strength.

In fact, eating a lot of junk puts you and your baby at risk for preterm labor, low birth weight, gestational diabetes, a baby with a predisposition to be overweight and a very hard time for you to lose your pregnancy weight, which often adds to the risk of postpartum depression.

And while not as exhausting and hard on your body as physical labor, sitting at a desk for eight - plus hours a day can do some real damage.

I'm hard labor guy and I work at Cracker Barrel 80 hours all week I just don't have enough money for things I want I want passionate love making

A truly fantastic Paul Muni plays James Allen, a returning WWI vet who gets wrongfully arrested and sentenced to ten years hard labor at an abhorrent southern work camp.

Teachers» unions also joined their labor brethren nationwide to chip in at least $ 20 million to beat a proposal that would have have made it harder to collect dues for political purposes.

As my car is approaching inspection I'm trying hard to fix this issue myself (if possible) because since the P0171 (running lean) code has so many possible causes, it's literally a matter of trial and error for the repair which can cost well over $ 1k at least from what I was quoted by the dealer (and also from my research on parts and labor online).

Now, Hyundai says the Sonata Hybrid can reach 75 MPH on watts alone (at least for a couple of heartbeats); its EPA - DOT efficiency ratings have inched upward to 40 MPG in highway driving and 36 in the city; and it has labored long and hard to fix the prior car's failings.

If yours goes out after warranty, prepare to pay at least 2 hours labor (HARD to get to) and $ 200 for the part.

At first, I self - published my game in the only way available at the time: the hard way; with components printed locally and personally assembled in a warehouse with the free - labor help of familAt first, I self - published my game in the only way available at the time: the hard way; with components printed locally and personally assembled in a warehouse with the free - labor help of familat the time: the hard way; with components printed locally and personally assembled in a warehouse with the free - labor help of family.

1 By Shigeru Tsuchiyama Futabashi / JManga Windows 7, SeaMonkey 2.4.1 — When Shunsuke (or possibly Junsuke — the translation is inconsistent) Aida is sentenced to three years of hard labor for assault and kidnapping charges related to his host club empire, he finds that his eight fellow cellmates at Naniwa South Prison have an interesting tradition: every Christmas Eve, they have a storytelling contest about the best meal they ever ate.

From a labor market perspective, we think it is hard to justify maintaining interest rates at zero or to pursue a negative - interest rate policy in the United States.

At the end of the round all your workers will head home, tired from their hard day of labor.

Today, those of you with a quick mind will begin to spot the fruits of that labor, which our teams have been hard at work on.

The has process is fascinating to look into and seeing these artists and engineers hard at work on a labor of love gives me even more hope that the end of Nathan Drake's story will be a great one.

So let's consider an average few days of in - game time; To get some money to buy equipment for working out in the garage instead of paying the gym entry fee you opt to spend a long time laboring away at a hard job that saps your overall happiness and energy.

At first glance across the gallery, the twenty - one new works seem to be the hard labor of a painterly photorealist.

He had a romantic attraction to the rusting, gear - strewn vessels and to the idea, at least, of good hard labor at sea — and he rued the trawlers» eventual obsolescence.