Sentence examples for a captive work from inspiring English sources

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"People say you have a captive work force," he said.

A captive work force: forty-four men, laborers from Thailand who were lured to Hawaii in 2004 with promises of good wages, housing and food.

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Working with wild-born Sumatran orangutans originating from two genetically distinct populations, we recently combined field experiments with captive work to show that genetic differences could not account for differences in their knowledge of stick use.

An important and growing body of captive work shows that apes are cognitive animals and do not simply react following stimulus-response patterns; therefore, it is not entirely suprising that they can represent their cultural knowledge.

The highest responder-rates in non-patient groups were in Lithuania (54.2%), a door-to-door survey conducted by trained interviewers which, probably, provided more incentive to answer than the self-administration demanded elsewhere, and in the relatively captive work-force population of Spain-workplace (58.8%).

Most of them were not even captured by US military personnel but were, rather, delivered by bounty hunters paid per captive, working for such upstanding organizations as those headed by one or another of the warlords making up the Northern Alliance, some of whom were even Taliban when it suited them.

'It is Saturday 8 December and the temperature outside is zero degrees.' As a young man, Laurie had preached to the Inuit: he knew how to work a captive audience.

Aided by Krak (Quentin Maré), a captive Arab engineer, Stucley begins work on the most phallic fortress the world has known.

While many companies encourage employees to patronize their products through financial incentives -- namely, discounts -- technology companies have the benefit of a captive audience, at least at work.

Dr. Kuczaj developed an early two-way communication system while working at a captive lab in Orlando in the late 1980s.

And yet he is not the author of these works, only a captive bystander of accidents which would already occur, whether or not anyone was there to see them.

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