Sentences with phrase «for day laborer»

One bitterly cold morning, driving to the train station, I noticed a group of Latin - American men huddled outside, waiting for day laborer jobs.

NDLON fosters safer, more humane environments for day laborers, both men and women, to earn a living, contribute to society, and integrate into the community.

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«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.»

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?

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.»

During the days when Hebrew speaking peoples were the only ones obeying God's commands, when a man fell on hard times provision was made for him to sell himdelf into slavery to another man, who was bound by law regarding the treatment of his laborers.

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.

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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 harvest.

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into this vineyard.

The cost of the ointment was the equivalent of the wages of a laborer for three hundred days, almost a year.

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).

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.

Levy, a fiscal hawk, has done a competent job of managing Suffolk's budget; he's loathsome, however, on issues like immigration, employing crude Latino - bashing jokes and displaying an enthusiasm for raids on day laborers, all of which plays to the angry white crowd.

Mr. Levy was irate, but ultimately came to terms: He agreed to build a state - financed hiring hall for immigrant day laborers, and the Assembly extended the tax.

One of the earliest proponents of high protein diets was the distinguished German physiologist Dr. Carl Voit (1831 - 1908).1, 2 After studying laborers who consumed approximately 3100 Calories daily, he concluded that protein intake for people should be 118 grams (g) per day — this value became known as the «Voit standard.»

(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.

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Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

and the Congress of Day Laborers began working together more than six years ago after realizing that their struggles for LGBTQ liberation, the human right to move freely, and the fight against criminalization are inherently and inextricably linked.

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.»

A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

For Hours of Labor, the artist investigates the current politics of economics and immigration by hiring day laborers to create objects with him.

Opening: «John Sonsini» at Ameringer McEnery Yohe A Los Angeles - based artist best known for his portraits of Latino day laborers, John Sonsini adds a conceptual twist to his portraiture by paying his subjects their normal hourly working wages to sit as his painting models.

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.

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.

«You have the day laborer saying saying «this is mainly for the young professionals who are working in Downtown LA.»

By the time I evicted them, they had lived without utilities for four months, the basement was nasty, and the house smelled so bad that day laborers refused to work in it.

I went to home depot got day laborers... bleach and other cleaning supplies all done for a few hundred.