Sentence examples for but hardworking from inspiring English sources

But "hardworking" also connotes something else: the virtue of the dedicated employee, who is ever available, an asset to company and country, never shirking, never clock-watching.

That means 64% of children formerly known as poor will now vanish from the government's reckoning because their families are not failing, but "hardworking" – just earning too little to keep afloat.

As Gordon Brown says: "The majority of today's poor, and the biggest losers from [Osborne's] tax credit changes, are not the unemployed or 'chaotic' families but hardworking parents and their children".

"You must also find a place for the less-intelligent but hardworking people; they are useful.

A descendant of Mormon pioneers in Utah, he grew up poor but hardworking, mowing lawns and picking potatoes for six cents a sack.

Santorum actually started out the season sounding like the smart-but-ignored, off-putting-but-hardworking guy in the debates.

Modern Republicans "have so much of their own collective identity wrapped up in the belief that they're surrounded by free-loading, job-averse parasites who not only want to smoke weed and have recreational abortions all day long, but want hardworking white Christians like them to pay the tab," Taibbi wrote.

As Rosalina, Joanna Mongiardo had a soprano that was thin, but she sang with flair; the tenor James Price was hardworking but strained as her beleaguered lover, Colombello.

You might believe yourself to be "hardworking", but to really know for sure you'd have to be told it by a rich person.

The people take pride in having built the economy without substantial investment from the state, and they have a reputation for being natural-born entrepreneurs — uncultured but crafty and hardworking.

"The people of the country of Haiti are hardworking but many have given up hope.