Sentences with word «hewers»

As hewers of wood and drawers of water, our economic fortunes (and therefore our wages, our home prices and other sectors of our economy) are already closely tied to that of commodities.

Others might complain that Canadians should aspire to be more than just hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Furthermore, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that these type of accidents are more likely to occur on rural roads and roads with hewer traffic lanes.

Poloz used his speech to challenge the old cliché of Canadians as «hewers of wood and drawers of water.»

(He titled his talk, «From Hewers of Wood to Hewers of Code: Canada's Expanding Service Economy.»)

«We have reverted to being hewers of wood and drawers of water,» insists Diana Gibson, research director at the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute, a political and economic think - tank.

When Israelite leader Joshua discovered the deception, he put a curse on the Gibeonites: «You shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water.»

Slower growth in China will have a knock - on effect, especially on us hewers and diggers, but more broadly too.

We are slowly devolving back to our status as a hewer of wood and drawer of water.

But Does an ax boast against the hewer, or a saw make itself greater than its user?.

Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water?»

«Catholic youth should not be the «hewers of wood and drawers of water,» but should be prepared for the professions or mercantile pursuits,» went one early protestation by the Association of Catholic Colleges.

We are a population still not far removed from the «hewers of wood and drawers of water» whom the Canadian historian Harold Innis lamented in his 1930 history of the fur trade.

Jesus likely would be one of the hewers of hemp — if He were allowed into the country at all under the financial guidelines for immigrants.