Sentence examples for appeals for work from inspiring English sources

It is the sidewalk vigils by many hundreds of residents -- plaintive appeals for work that some have undertaken daily for months or years.

I recall my first season (1961) in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra when, to protest the seven-performance and heavy rehearsal schedule, I was on a hastily formed string committee to appeal for "work relief or some financial compensation".

Of UNICEF's $110 million appeal for work inside Syria just $16 million was received out of the $33 million requested for education.

Under Green's predecessor, Iain Duncan Smith, it attracted notoriety for its harshness and there were high numbers of successful appeals against fit-for-work decisions.

There have been over 600,000 appeals against fit-for-work decisions in recent years, clogging up tribunal courts and costing the taxpayer over £60m a year.

There has also been a massive drop in the number of appeals against fit-for-work tests being heard at a tribunal.

It has been dogged by administrative delays, which have often left claimants stressed and penniless, and there have been hundreds of thousands of appeals against fit-for-work decisions in recent years, about four in 10 of which have succeeded.

This group of "hard-to-reach" clients attracts higher success payments, so the choking off of this potential income stream (because of the huge backlog in appeals against fit-for-work decisions) is beginning to hurt primes financially.

Atos said that accusing it of being responsible for an increase in successful appeals against fit-for-work tests was a "gross oversimplification" and it did not make any decisions on benefit entitlement.

These related to claims for unemployment and disability benefits, and waits triggered by appeals against fit for work test results.

Oxfam has launched an emergency appeal for its work in Niger and other countries affected by the food crisis across West Africa's Sahel region.