Sentences with phrase «domestic servants»

By the time students enrolled in this course become established in their legal careers, it is anticipated that robots will be our surgeons and our domestic servants.

There are narrow exceptions for certain types of agricultural workers, charities and non-profit organizations, domestic servants, and those employed by family members.

Exempt employers include those engaged in agriculture, with some restrictions, and employers of domestic servants in a private home.

Some of the slaves worked in cities as craftsmen or domestic servants; but the plantation based on the monoculture, first of tobacco in Virginia and later of cotton throughout the Black Belt, was the involuntary home of the mass of Negro Americans.

As the tradition evolved, in some places the focus turned to domestic servants, who were given the day off from the manor houses in which they worked to allow them to return to their mothers for the day.

In other cases, people are lured by the promise of highpaying jobs in other cities or countries, then forced to work in brothels or as domestic servants in private homes.

The family wishes one to become a bride for one of their two sons and use both girls as domestic servants.

The novel is about «African - American domestic servants and their wealthy white employers in Mississippi before the civil rights era.»

While many of these proud black women might have toiled as lowly domestic servants during the week, they would invariably arrive decked out on Sunday.

There's a general vibe of unease in this house in the woods, compounded by the fact that the two domestic servants are both African - American and possessed of a peculiar set of mannerisms that are anything but normal.

Washington, a superstar voice of white - friendly compromise, advocated vocational training for blacks as the nation's laborers and domestic servants — while he hobnobbed with powerful industrialists.

Besides the western influence the ladies of those regions have the tradition of a good education and are not prone to becoming domestic servants after marriage.

Machines for washing clothes — and dishes — have trebled the workload of domestic servants by transforming their employers» expectations concerning daily hygiene.

Wilhelm H. I. Bleek, a German philologist, acquired custody of the men, who built huts at the bottom of his garden and worked as domestic servants.

The EFCC had, in June last year, arrested four domestic servants, including a driver and a houseboy, who allegedly operated bank accounts belonging to Patience.

He claimed that every now and then domestic servants at the Presidential Villa were sent to deposit money into the company's accounts for Patience.

Recognised as having a keen mind, he is better known for his character, humility, pastoral skill, and his simplicit - living in a basic apartment rather than an archepiscopal palace, travelling by public transport rather than chauffeured car and cooking for himself rather than employing domestic servants.

So it isn't an exact model: if domestic servants value productivity differs from (say) video game programmers, the price of the commodities they contribute to won't express the actual number of human hours of labour, but only the number of hours of human labour that our society (through market, production, class war) deems socially average.

BiruhTesfa also gives girls the opportunity to have peers and make friends, something completely absent from the rest of their waking hours as domestic servants.

Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

In modern English, this makes her sound like a domestic servant, but the words «meet for him» translate from the Hebrew word kenegdo: a combined meaning of «like» and «beside» and «him».

An uneducated domestic servant, aged nineteen, poisons herself, and leaves two letters expressing her motive for the act.

If you do nt make that team you probably better look for a job as a domestic servant.

Really a domestic servant?

My grandmother was a domestic servant, who worked as a lady's maid below stairs.

That's fair, but she conveys this with so little irony or insight that Dodge's workmates, domestic servant, and the gaggle of randy, dedicated T.G.I. Friday's — esque waitstaff he and Penny encounter on their journey come off more as morons than heroes.

It sees Gadon journeying into unfamiliar territory to portray the show's protagonist, the real - life Grace Marks, an Irish domestic servant who was convicted, perhaps wrongly, of the double murder of her employers in Canada in 1843.

3:15 pm — TCM — The Spiral Staircase A classic example of the «old dark house» atmospheric thriller, with Dorothy Maguire as a mute domestic servant whose life is endangered when a serial killer seems to be targeting people with disabilities like her.

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843.

However, their plans for a testosterone - only oasis of solitude is ruined upon the arrival from Boston of Ruth Lowell (Mamie Gummer), a gorgeous, eligible young heiress accompanied by her equally - attractive domestic servant (Blythe Danner).

Based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James

Katy dreams of a better life than just being a domestic servant at Cheadle Manor.

In Maids of Misfortune, Annie Fuller, a widowed boarding house keeper and pretend clairvoyant, goes undercover as a domestic servant to solve a murder, in Uneasy Spirits, Annie and San Francisco lawyer Nate Dawson investigate fraudulent trance mediums, and in Bloody Lessons, they try to determine who is attacking San Francisco teachers.

Witches were accused of being able to transform themselves into black cats, considered to be witches» «familiars», an «animal - shaped spirit or minor demon believed to serve a witch or magician as domestic servant, spy or companion.»

Having worked primarily in the cotton fields and then as a domestic servant, her compositions include scenes of outdoor activity and still lifes of everyday objects.

Alatise has written a book about a Yoruba girl who is rented out as a domestic servant in Lagos; in the girl's dream world, she can fly.

Carrie Davies, an 18 year old domestic servant quickly confessed.

In 1915, a member of one of Canada's wealthiest families was killed by a young domestic servant.

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies the parties» joint motion to seal court files in this suit filed by plaintiff, who formerly worked as a domestic servant in defendants» homes in the U.S. and in Qatar, alleging violations of the...

This section also covers the Workmen's Compensation liability of the insured to domestic servant working in the premises of the Insured person.

It is not unusual for a beneficiary to be a lover, illegitimate child, faithful domestic servant, or have some other type of relationship with the insured that he or she may not want to be publicly acknowledged.

Not exact matches

When Russia decriminalized domestic violence in February 2017, civil servants tasked with protecting women in the country's far east were dismayed by the new vulnerability of their wards.

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

Vega, a dedicated public servant, has over a decade of experience in international and domestic affairs and significant expertise in organizational and strategic planning, policy development, and resource mobilization and allocation.

She screened a portion of «Corridor» (2003), a double - channel video documenting side - by - side the mundane activities of two black women — a servant in 1860 and a middle - class homeowner in 1960 — each going about their day in a domestic setting.

The poor didn't have servants even though domestic help seems to have been more common than it is now.