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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alien job" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a job that is foreign or unfamiliar, possibly in the context of an extraterrestrial or non-human context, or metaphorically to describe a job that feels out of place.
Example: "After moving to a new country, I found myself in an alien job that required skills I had never used before."
Alternatives: "foreign job" or "unfamiliar job".
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"Joining Magnum didn't mean leaving a coherent artistic sphere for an alien job; and being a photo-journalist didn't mean being a photographer," the scholar and photo-curator Peter Galassi writes.
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The surge in discouraged workers is going to continue unless America takes back the jobs that are being held by millions of illegal aliens, jobs that we blacks used to have.
In an interview, Mr. Lewandowski and two supporters, Mimi Whitman and Charlene O'Donnell, said illegal aliens take jobs from Americans and are a burden on the taxpayers.
Conceding that § 1031(a) also bars aliens from jobs that "may have only a tenuous connection to traditional police functions of law enforcement," ante at 443, the Court nevertheless declares that alienage classifications "need not be precise; there need only be a substantial fit" between the classification used and the State's asserted interest.
Mr. Franco says illegal aliens take jobs from American citizens; Mr. Gonzalez, with dignity, tells him to blame instead the Government "for chasing all the industry out of the United States". The program -produced by Steve Reiner, directed by John Bianco - is television as the national hearth.
"Ausaf and Azhar were doing degrees and were going to get proper jobs – Alien Kulture was always going to be a bright star that shone briefly.' In the summer of 1981, Alien Kulture disbanded.
When he spoke of immigration, perhaps the touchiest issue facing a gridlocked Congress, he placed it in a dark frame, with talk of gang violence, of alien intruders stealing jobs and a suggestion of unending "chain" migrants — aunts, uncles, cousins and other family members — leaching taxpayer dollars.
Jeunet had just completed the script to Amélie and was surprised he was offered the job for Alien: Resurrection, as he thought the franchise had finished with Alien 3 and believed that making a sequel was a bad idea.
Scott did such an amazing job with Alien, so how could Prometheus not be good?
Although this call for the state to step in and do its job appears alien to our current political leaders, it chimes not only with decades of pre-Thatcher economic consensus, but also the expectations of a majority of voters.
You have one alien fighter, and your job is to escort an unarmed scientist through hostile territory, carefully eliminating target after target as you wind your way to the final destination.
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