Sentences with phrase «by hired hand»

Synopsis: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14 - year - old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer.

The monetary rewards for these tasks vary, but if you have all your farming duties being covered by hired hands, these are a good use of time and help break up the monotony of just farming all the time.

These artists were invited to provide instructions for works to be produced (in whatever sense they decide) in not more than 2 wo / man - hours by hired hands.

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

Last week, Re / Code reported that an at an all - hands company meeting, interim CEO Jack Dorsey responded to an employee question about diversity hiring by saying that company should and will set diversity goals.

On the other hand the average length of the work week decreased by 0.2 hours, indicating that while employers have hired more, this may be eating into the hours of the already employed.

The sleeve, featuring a backdrop of Meghan Moser's hand block printed coffee bean pattern in a camouflage design, recognizes the Veterans and military spouses who have been hired by Starbucks.

In this parable, the hired hand always gives his employer the benefit of the doubt by imagining the best possible motivation for actions that otherwise seemed suspect.

The BoostApak by Trunki is hand - luggage approved for air travel, and eliminates the need to hire a car seat when renting a vehicle on holiday.

In a letter submitted to the Times Union, the commissioners — all legislative appointees — argued that the hiring by JCOPE's outgoing executive director is improper because Gagan's special counsel title wasn't listed in a staffing plan, approved in 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive director.

The company has hired a handful of employees and expects to have 200 on hand by the end of the year.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Noble noted that the current «strong mayor» system was enacted hastily 20 years ago when Mayor T.R. Gallo (the incumbent's late brother) orchestrated a rapid about - face from a proposed city manager system which would have left day - to - day operations in the hands of a professional hired by elected council members.

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.

Citi News can confirm that the vehicles handed over to the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in 2016 on hire purchase by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre [MASLOC], have been left at the mercy of the weather.

The advocates also called on Cuomo to release any report handed to him by private investigator Bart Schwartz, who was hired by the administration this spring after the governor's office was served with a federal subpoena related to the development probe.

The folks in whose hands my future career lies (e.g., faculty committees looking to hire) will either admire that quality or pass me by.

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

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 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.

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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.

My favorite idea was making the famous Philip Marlowe of the Raymond Chandler books and several films (played by Humphrey Bogart) into his willful stooge and incompetent hired hand; Watson to his Holmes.

After Jim and his friend, Dr. Doppler, discover the golden ball is a map to the legendary Treasure Planet, they hire a crew and the RLS Legacy, manned by Captain Amelia and her right hand man Arrow.

by Walter Chaw On the strength of his scripts for The Hired Hand, Ulzana's Raid, and Night Moves, Scottish novelist Alan Sharp seems well at home with the better - known, more highly - regarded writers and directors of the New American Cinema.

Everything seems to be going fine at their convent until Father Tommasso brings on new hired hand, a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord.

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.

Everything seems fine at their convent until Father Tommasso brings on new hired hand, a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord.

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.

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.

Principals and superintendents frequently lament that their hands are tied by contracts, policies, and regulations — especially when it comes to hiring and firing staff, assigning employees to schools or classrooms, designing programs, or allocating resources.

The transfer of hands took place the following day: signage was replaced and Tim's 148 employees went through procedural steps to be hired by Findlay.

Many independent e-publishers choose to handle the formatting themselves or hire someone to do it by hand (depending on who you talk to, fees typically run from $ 50 - $ 150 for full - length novels — if you have a lot of pictures, it's more work for someone and will cost more, but you shouldn't be paying heaps of money for this).

He lost his boat to the bank in»31 when Teddy was eleven, spent the rest of his life hiring onto other boats when they had the work, unloading freight along the docks when they didn't, going long stretches when he was back at the house by ten in the morning, sitting in an armchair, staring at his hands, whispering to himself occasionally, his eyes gone wide and dark.

This is a problem solved by hiring additional hands (also known as academic writers) to help complete the term papers on time and with a high quality of information.

But good for Hannaford, Eric thought, hiring the guy at no - doubt minimum wage with his savings all eaten up by his wife's final illness — the sadness of late - life loss was in the old bird's eyes and posture, even in his hands.

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

At 74, he still digs fence post holes by hand and complains about the shoddy job Mom's hired landscapers did at their new house.

Knowing that the writer is more than capable of handling the task at hand surely boosts your confidence in us that is why we make sure only the best writers are hired by our company.

A personal financial advisor, on the other hand, is hired by you to manage your personal investments, which could include actively managed funds, index funds, and other investments.

Fortunately for you, there's a number of options that you can choose from when you file your taxes: do it by hand, use accounting software, or hire a full - blown accountant to do them for you.

On the other hand, the cost of hiring a limousine to travel to clients may be helpful, but is not ordinary by tax standards.

Hand - built rowing skiffs, crafted along the lines of the boats used on the Thames in the 19th century, are available to hire by the hour; $ 26 for the first hour, $ 5 for each hour thereafter.

We hired a driver for a three - day desert tour to the Chilean border and when we crossed over, Ania and I took exploration into our own hands by renting mountain bikes.

Mega-yachts hire a larger variety of positions (from deck hands to cooks to engineers to hosts), and although the hours can be long, again you're getting a travel experience by virtue of the job and you can save the money you make since your accommodation and food is covered.

Once on board your hired vessel, you can relax one hundred per cent knowing that you are being looked after by an expert crew who are on hand to take care of you and your luxury boat charter Croatia vacation.

AMD - B dive guides all know every dive site in Bali like the back of their hands, which gives AquaMarine led divers an advantage over divers led by newly hired expat dive guides.

At the start of each chapter the council will convene and based upon some of your prior decisions will hand you a pile of silver and supplies that you can then use to bolster your forces by hiring new troops, disbanding old ones and upgrading existing ones, as well as equipping them with some gear like new javelins or some heavy axes.

In honor of the confirmed release date and this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, a new on - board hotlap gameplay video has been released showing Toro Rosso — Ferrari's Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo taking on the tight twisty turns and steep inclines of the Hungaroring circuit As is always the case with these videos, former formula one driver Anthony Davidson, who was also hired by Codemasters as F1 2013's Technical is on - hand to narrate the action, giving his words of wisdom on how to tackle the track proficiently and find the optimum racing lines to maintain your speed.

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.