Sentences with phrase «day laborers in»

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.
His project Homeland (2006 — 2009), further explored the intersection between a longing for home and fulfillment against the promise of suburban life by staging day laborers in domestic dramas.
His project Homeland, (2006 — 2009) further explored the intersection between the longing for home and fulfillment against the promise of suburban life by staging day laborers in domestic dramas.
When John Sonsini began painting Latino day laborers in Los Angeles, California, around 2001, his intentions weren't quite political.
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.
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.

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There likely are additional North Korean day laborers who work in China under cross-border provincial agreements, he added.
These «poor» are far richer in both income (however obtained) and opportunity than the $ 1 a day laborer overseas.
«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»
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.
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.
Commenting on the prayer for bread and forgiveness of debts in the Lord's Prayer, J. Kloppenborg says, «Bread and debt were, quite simply the two most immediate problems facing the Galilean peasant, day laborer and non-elite urbanite.
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?
Indian Poor Day Laborers always breastfeed in Public but they have sense to cover up while they breastfeed.
Matthew evidently understands it so, for he gives here (20:1 - 16) the parable about the laborers who were hired at different hours of the day to work in a vineyard, but were all paid the same wages for their day's work; and at the end of the parable he says, «So the last will be first, and the first last.»
So early in the morning he goes to the marketplace where day laborers waited to get hired, and hired those he found there.
because in this last days were the Holy Spirit has been given to all believers in Christ, laborers are few, the coming of the Lord Jesus closer today than it was yesterday, we have so many unreached areas with gospel, women are instrumental to the finishing of the great commission.
The laborer who pays with his person day by day, and has no rights invested in the future, offers also much of this ideal detachment.
The pages of the Torah resonate with a profound concern for the socially and economically vulnerable in society — the poor, day laborers, orphans and widows, resident aliens, and even the Levites who, unlike members of other tribes, were assigned no parcels of land in Israel.
In the world that Jesus knew, day laborers worked for wages because, for whatever reason, they had lost their access to the patronage system that gave them a share in the harvesIn the world that Jesus knew, day laborers worked for wages because, for whatever reason, they had lost their access to the patronage system that gave them a share in the harvesin the harvest.
In the last analysis, men stand before God not otherwise than the day laborers of the parable, with their utter lack of any legal claim (that was the rule in those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (MatIn the last analysis, men stand before God not otherwise than the day laborers of the parable, with their utter lack of any legal claim (that was the rule in those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (Matin those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (Matt.
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).
Also Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice called on the Federal Railroad Administration to investigate workplace safety practices at the LIRR's rail freight contractor, after allegations in a lawsuit that New York & Atlantic Railway was having untrained and uncertified day laborers perform dangerous jobs on LIRR tracks.
Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.
May Day, also called International Workers» Day, has been around for more than a century, started by laborers in Chicago who marched for an eight - hour workday at the end of the 19th century.
He also worked as a day laborer and is the first in his family to go to college.
tall dark and handsome umm lets see I'm a single father, actor I'm also a laborer at Giants Stadium chivalry is not dead I do believe in cooking cleaning and healing you to the best of health all it takes is a smile and is done naturally imagine coming home from a hard days work house clean food...
Reunited with his real - life girlfriend and star Aubrey Plaza («Life After Beth») and producer Liz Destro, «Little Hours» sees a medieval convent go insane after a sexy day laborer (Dave Franco) moves in.
(In Cantonese with subtitles) Ladron Que Roba a Ladron (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Crime caper about a couple of career crooks (Fernando Colunga and Miguel Varoni) who come out of retirement to rob a TV infomercial guru (Saul Lisazo) who has made millions by selling worthless health products to poor Latino day laborers.
Green also shot «Joe,» featuring Nicolas Cage and a cast of homeless people and day laborers, in the Austin area.
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 son.
Success and honesty have become diametrically opposed forces in 99 Homes, a one - percenter housing thriller that pits a wolf of real estate in the form of an e-cigarette munching Michael Shannon against a hardworking everyman day laborer (Andrew Garfield).
Chrysler was an American man by all standards in those days, a self - taught engineer and entrepreneur who worked his way up the ladder from a skilled laborer, to the top of the first company he worked at: Buick.
The war between the government forces and the Khmer Rouge is remote until the day the Khmer Rouge arrive in his town and, taking all the children captive, march them into the countryside, where they become, essentially, slave laborers.
With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream.
A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»
In Sonsini's work, the day laborers are removed from their context and painted without defined backgrounds, without clear, individual identities.
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 weekend activities include tours in Spanish and English and a musical performance by the L.A. - based Los Jornaleros del Norte (The Day Laborers of the North).
At the same time, in cobalt - producing regions of Congo, child laborers are being employed, women are spending their days washing minerals, and babies are being born with shocking, rarely - seen birth defects.
«You have the day laborer saying saying «this is mainly for the young professionals who are working in Downtown LA.»
Rainforest Action Network has likened the situations faced by laborers in Indonesia and Malaysia to «modern - day slavery.»
Actually, its source is usually jute, and practically all of the burlap we use is woven from laborers in India who receive only four cents a day.
Colorlines recently outlined reforms that would help the five labor sectors that probably endure the hardest conditions and the worst pay and treatment in the U.S.: day laborers, domestic workers, tipped workers, workfare workers, and farmworkers.
The post comments that in comparison with those in the investment industry, partners at firms are really like day laborers rather than capitalist owners.
The article quotes at length from a recent decision in National Day Laborer Organizing Network et al. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, et al., a United States District Court case arising -LSB-...]
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.
Justin McDevitt, a second - year law student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, won first place in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers writing competition with an article entitled «Compromise Is Complicity: Why There Is No Middle Road in the Struggle to Protect America's Day Laborers
p. 28) as, «the most influential judge in the e-discovery area as the author of the Zubulake opinions, a group of influential e-discovery cases» (in 2003 - 04), in Nat» l Day Laborer Org.
Game Change: Reevaluating Collection Processes in the Wake of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Ruling 3/23/2013
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