Sentences with phrase «men toiling»

The others began to grumble, saying, «We toiled all day, whereas this man toiled only two hours, and yet the king has given him the full wage.»

Men like al - Farabi (died 339; A.D. 950) and Ibn Sina (died 429; A.D. 1037), who is known in the West as Avicenna, wholeheartedly devoted themselves to the study of those materials, and generations of men toiled and managed, sometimes by sheer brainpower, to reject nonsense and falsehood.

Together the two young Jewish men toil to create the Escapist and Luna Moth, among others, while Joe dreams of saving his family from the devastation of Europe under Hitler.

Not exact matches

As David McMillan, the chef behind Montreal's Joe Beef and a man who has toiled in celebrity kitchens, tells me, «I wouldn't trade his life for mine.

Why, he's behaving just like the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son, «the one who stayed home and toiled with his father and grew resentful when the old man slew the fatted calf upon his brother's return.»

He writes with feeling to a parent of the school, «I often think what poor creatures we priests are, who, like gentlemen of England, sit at home at ease, while you, married men, have all the merit of anxiety and toil which the care of a family involves.

= > to the man he said: «Cursed is the ground because of you through PAINFUL toil you will eat of it.»

The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their routine: men and women were at the market, the rich in their luxurious baths, slaves at toil.

I know that there is nothing better for them [mankind] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

How could Jesus accept those living in ill - gotten luxury wrung from the toil, sweat, and tears of helpless men, women, and children?

Just as Christ in his concrete historical reality (and not only as the eternal Logos of the world) is the salvation of all men, even of those who lived before his time, through hundreds of thousands of years of an immeasurable, toiling history, obscure and unintelligible to itself, the same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the Church.

I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

For spiritual stability that can stand the strain of life's toil and the shock of life's tragedy and bring a man out inwardly victorious over disappointment and disillusion is to be found ultimately in a clear religious insight that

He (like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, and the Prophets) probably became the man he was through many toils, trials, and troubles.

With the release of men from deadening drudgery and toil, new possibilities of cultural growth and the use of man's varied capacities have emerged.

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil — this is God's gift to man (Ecclesiastes 3:12 - 13).

As punishment, the serpent must slink through life on its belly in the dirt, and man must toil against stubborn, inhospitable land until his death.

(1) There is the (partial) estrangement of humankind from the world (or nature), evidenced by (a) enmity between serpent and woman; (b) partial alienation of man from the earth, upon which he must now toil for his food; and (c) pain of childbirth, implying conflict even within the (female) human body.

Even before we meet him, man is defined by his work, man has his work cut out for him: less the ruler over life, more the servant of the earth, man will till and toil, needily waiting for rain, anxious about the future.

The new and awful discoveries made of the polluting and murderous nature of their superstitions, in writings of unquestioning authority, with the success of the missionary labours of the excellent men of other denominations already employed there, the committee think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means of acquainting their natives of India with their divine religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every subject of the British throne.4

Why do men have to toil so arduously in order to live?

And few who scoffed had any real understanding of the endless physical toil needed to condition a man for a distance race, nor the physical agony implicit in a four - minute mile.

He is one of the most spectacular late men ever to toil at Anaheim Stadium.

She worked two shifts a day as a waitress at a Howard Johnson's in Times Square to support his schooling, while Charlie toiled part time at the same restaurant, manning the soda fountain.

It was clear that this Louisiana - bred man who was a high school and college quarterback and an NFL defensive back had toiled to the top.

They were still the men who toiled and dreamt with him when the team had no right to see themselves at such heights.

Arsenal were banking on the trio of Rosicky, Cazorla and Ozil for attacking thrusts in order to support lone man upfront Olivier Giroud, who put in another toiling shift last night.

After all the first half toiling in the baking afternoon heat, it took just three minutes of the second period for Morris's men to find the elusive breakthrough.

It can't be argued that one man has thrived by keeping it simple while the other has toiled attempting to create an overwhelming masterpiece either as some might have it.

The revitalised Frenchman toiled in midfield, supported the front men and made some key interceptions - notably when Lacazette was about to let fly from the edge of the area.

Mayor Bloomberg, who toiled for decades to become the city's wealthiest man, is now building a financial operation to give away his billions — prompting him to say that only Microsoft founder Bill Gates has given away more of his own money.

Our responsibility is to every man and woman who sacrificed with their blood and toil during those heady days.

«It is my hope that our actions can help spur a resolution that benefits everyone, especially the working men and women of this hotel who toil every day so that management can put its best foot forward and continue to serve the public while they visit our beautiful and wondrous state Capitol,» he said in a statement.

These are the brave men and women toiling to make tastier rations and more hygienic field latrines, among other unsung but much - needed achievements.

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Women that did not take arms toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and performed their other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production.

Set in 1943, as London felt the regular bombings from Hitler and the Allied ships were often bombarded by German U-boats, the film covers the work of the men and women who toiled in the top secret estate of Bletchley Park.

But for all its fugitive conventions, the film is at heart a social - realist tale about the toil of the working man.

They've found a precarious but so far effective way to survive, farming and fishing their way to dinner each night, while Lee toils away in his basement man cave, which is equipped with a whiteboard whose messages too obviously clue us into what he's trying to accomplish: to create a weapon to use against the monsters by identifying an exploitable weakness.

But where his real father — played by Christopher Walken — toils like a mouse drowning in a bucket cream, a surrogate enters the fray in the form of Tom Hanks» dogged FBI man.

The Shape of Water is that, certainly, a monstrous and modest example of Man - Child wish fulfillment but moreso is it something truly greater, the dazzling level of love of craft poured into each shot displaying a filmmaker working at his absolute peak, toiling from a place of pure, unchecked passion without much thought to the fact that his central conceit is wildly off - color and potentially repulsive to some, no matter how rose - colored the glasses you're looking at it through.

Like that film, it's also about men at work — about breakin» rocks in the hot sun, as the song goes, although the Eastern European climate in Valeska Grisebach's film is somewhat more moderate than the pitiless desert where Denis's legionnaires toiled.

The landscape covering the oceans of oil is inhospitable and the work done on the face of the land is the bleak, strenuous toil of hard men wrestling with the cast iron machinery and implements of their age.

Everyone agrees that «A Single Man» represents a career peak for a well - liked actor who has been toiling away for three decades now, but has rarely grabbed the spotlight for himself.

Freed either by working with the man responsible for her breakout role or by the chance to use her actual accent for once, Collette makes a triumphant return to the big screen, reminding audiences of how much we've missed her while she toiled away on Showtime's «United States of Tara.»

Corvette Racing labored long and hard in the Labor Day Weekend Grand Prix of Mosport, and the toil paid off with the team's seventh victory of the season in the American Le Mans Series.

A Christian man named Jeff Seagraves toils in a busy convenience store serving those who choose to stay asleep, and while he is awake and aware those who slumber appear to enjoy a higher quality of life and a greater sense of freedom.

He fussed over the one remaining mammoth and imagined one day his farm entire, vast and teeming, crews of men under his command, a cookhouse, bunkhouse, equipment, a woman and children sturdily determined to their toil.

Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana mill town, promptly buys the property, and puts Randolph in charge of this place unlike any he has ever seen, where men are surrounded by cypress swamps and menace, leading lives of ceaseless, backbreaking toil punctuated only by the brutal entertainments provided by the Sicilians who control the whiskey and card games and girls, and by the rough justice meted out by the still - tormented Byron.