Sentence examples for breaking stone from inspiring English sources
About the camps he later said: "For a young bourgeois with Surrealist ideas, breaking stone and working in a cement factory was a very good lesson".
As for taxes, the arguments range from calls for a personal income tax — that's as close to breaking stone tablets as you can find in state politics — to suggestions from business groups like the research association that say the state's current taxes aren't equal and uniform.
His first job, breaking stone, proved to be too physically punishing; he moved to a better-paid position as a van driver, but was sacked when, for religious reasons, he refused to work on Sundays.
That's the fella was breaking stones on the altar.
He concedes that, technically, breaking stones might help replenish ground water.
"I spent six months there, mostly breaking stones, picking brambles and carrying sand.
MANY of India's "modern slaves" labour in appalling conditions in brick kilns or breaking stones in quarries.
"We're up here breaking stones and there are people over there yelling, 'Yay!' " Mr. Meehan said.
Weights range from a few ounces or grams up to 15 pounds (7 kg) for hammers used in breaking stones.
Farhi's father was breaking stones in a workcamp as punishment for his inability to pay these astronomical taxes.
"We are only breaking stones," the Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar said dismissively in 2001, when he heard the international outcry over the statues' destruction.
