Sentence examples for band of workers from inspiring English sources

If but a small band of workers is toiling now, more than 200 will soon occupy the site.

This is a double burden: benefits for growing numbers of pensioners will have to be paid for by a shrinking band of workers.

Since nobody was going to hire his sometimes fragile, often eccentric band of workers, Colón decided he needed to become a businessman.

The biggest part of the solution lies in expanding the shrinking band of workers, mainly by getting people to retire later and persuading even more women to take up paid employment.

Divorced and having a hard time keeping up a connection with his kids, Richard would like to believe that his small band of workers think of themselves as a family, despite much evidence to the contrary.

If debt continues to grow as the economy contracts, it will become even harder to bear.Secondly, a dwindling band of workers will have to support rising social-security payments, as the number of retired people grows.

Meanwhile, bands of workers and volunteers — armed with crowbars, sledgehammers and chainsaws — continued to dig through the debris of wood, metal and plastic that blanketed the city.

The ironworkers were joined by a vocal band of casino workers, led by Robert McDevitt, president of Unite-Here Local 54.

A band of outreach workers, the educational equivalents of repo men, arranged part-time jobs and night-school curricula for other resisters.

This was to be the fiery but feelgood tale of a band of female workers who triumph over their own exploitation and go on to win new rights for womankind.

Thanks to his cellphone and 12 gauge shotgun, a police officer who recalled cold-weather survival training in the Marine Corps and a band of rescue workers who slogged through frigid water, Mr. Seelagy was saved from the bog.