Sentences with phrase «to labor for»

She also donated over $ 100,000 of plant material and labor for a project to renovate the roof of the LGBT Center on Halsted.

Interviewing noted legal thinkers like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), the documentary argues that this «loophole» — allowing forced labor for criminals — enabled resentful white society to imprison black citizens on minor charges and put them to work.

This modern method is often the best — and most inexpensive — way to come up with new ideas, generate content and supplement labor for your business.

«The NFLPA has been holding events around the league at small towns to talk to small business owners about the pending lockout,» says Liz Mullen, a reporter who covers agents, unions and labor for the Sports Business Journal.

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

With help from EIGS, Digital Quest obtained certification from the Department of Labor for its course to be included in a four - semester industry certification program awarded by the Mississippi Enterprise for Technology, after which students are ready to be an entry - level geospatial technician.

Real estate developers have plenty of ways to avoid taxes, via totally legitimate deductions not available to folks who labor for a company.

I certainly enjoy working in the fresh air, but I'll admit it would be nice to have someone else — or something else — handle the backbreaking labor for me.

Entrepreneurs are faced with a unique opportunity to not only build innovative products but also to build companies that break the cycle and do not play off of fear, false superiority, or treating work as simply an exchange of labor for money.

Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer has criticised Labor for wanting to tie more of workers» pay up in superannuation.

However, despite continued pushback from the broker - dealer and insurance industries on the controversial rulemaking — and delays — Saxon told ThinkAdvisor that he doesn't believe that Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, the main architect of the fiduciary rule, «is ever going to give up» on making sure the fiduciary redraft sees the light of day.

A loss of sanctuary status also means potentially less supply of labor for lower paying jobs.

Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, agreed in comments to reporters that DOL is «confident that we have put together a rule that will survive legal challenges.»

Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in a recent interview that DOL has been getting feedback on areas in the rule that need tweaking.

Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, stated at the meeting that DOL spent hours trying to ensure the rule struck the right balance between what constitutes education and what constitutes advice.

The lower the Feds keep rates, the higher the margins in trading labor for capital.

At the same time was the release of a 16 - page FAQ, which includes 30 questions and answers that Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, said are meant to answer questions «especially for workers and retirement investors.»

We applaud the Department of Labor for raising awareness of the importance of fiduciary standards, especially the duty of care, the focus of our comments.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics» (BLS) Employment Cost Index (ECI) is a quarterly release which gives information on the costs of labor for businesses in the United States.

The company, founded in 2014 as an online marketplace for services and labor for the energy industry, also secured a $ 30 million credit line from Silicon Valley Bank.

Pastors labor for hours over the perfect soundbite for their congregations to tweet.

On this line I want to tell you about Willie Burton, who is laboring for God in the Belgium Congo.

The difference is that the Christian is equiped to recognize the Spirit for who He is and may follow the Spirit more easily; whereas it may be more labor for the non-Christian to figure out who the Spirit is and what exactly He wants.

Furthermore, some substitution of human labor for fossil fuels absorbs unemployed workers.

Among the remembered prayers of the very wise and holy St. Thomas More is this: «The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for.»

And it is the object of Thomas More's prayer: that we may have the grace to labor for that for which we pray.

Whatever impulse his followers have had to labor for the amelioration of human life in ministering to the sick, the weak and helpless, the ignorant, the poverty - stricken, the imprisoned by any kind of chains, owes its primary origin to the love of God for persons as this was manifest in Jesus.

Do not labor for the bread that spoils but for the bread that endures to eternal life.

The miracle is that this weeping, angry God still graces us to hope and to labor for peace.

We are called on to clarify what God in the historical labor for holiness and justice wrests from us as sound teaching.

I've watched their teachers labor for hours to tutor students once considered beyond education and civilization.

But we also «use» other people when we hire them under the table and pay them a substandard wage, expect them to provide services for us, but don't want them to have affordable health care, manipulate others into providing free labor for us when we can afford to pay for it, etc..

For decades, the chocolate industry has been accused of utilizing child labor for cacao harvesting operations that subject children to horrific working conditions and regular beatings.

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

You do not know about working hard as I have done both, hard labor for 16 hours a day and 16 hours day in executive management.

To labor for money is to secure the right to autonomy.

But then comes God's challenge for discernment: «Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?»

At a conference in California this past summer, I had the opportunity to discuss these questions publicly with an old friend, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, OP, the archbishop of Vienna and principal editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (a labor for which the universal Church owes him a great debt of gratitude).

It is also why the insistent human belief that justice for all people and deliverance from oppression and servitude is met by the divine Love that labors for precisely such justice and freedom.

Ogden, for example, argues that by far the most important way in which we can participate in God's emancipating work of «helping people manage their opportunities for good... is to labor for fundamental social and cultural change.»

I love the programs you run, and how you have labored for Christ so faithfully over the years.

The Cuban people, they fear, would become cheap labor for the Yanqui capitalists, with the regime taking the money and paying off workers with soap, toothpaste, and other necessities in short supply.

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

Man, under communism and socialism, forces man to give the fruit of their labor for the alleged purposes of feeding, housing and clothing the needy (but look how that is so out of control and so much abused).

If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me.

Somehow, I suspect your very simple - minded response would change if I claimed you as my personal property, restricted your personal freedoms, claimed any children you might have as my additional personal property, and forced you (using only that «necessary» amount of physical violence to maintain your compliance) to perform hard manual labor for 12 hours a day.

If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me.

Implicit in that question is another: Will he find people of faith who never halted, who never wavered, in laboring for the fulfillment of his prayer that «they may all be one»?

We hear of wars and rumors of wars, and instead of flipping through LaHaye to pinpoint the event, we pray, protest and labor for peace.

Some of the inhabitants of villages are employed on these large holdings; others are expected to go to the cities to supply labor for factories.