Sentence examples for circumstance working from inspiring English sources

Stevenson says that the great privilege – "the joy, even" – of working in the field of trauma is witnessing people fight back from cruel circumstance, working with people "who are incredibly brave, incredibly resilient, incredibly positively focused about what they're doing".

He was a guy who was trying to do the right thing in a politically impossible circumstance: working for an administration that thinks that the best way to prevent HIV is to cross your legs.

It forces everyone else to work their lives away in unfulfilling jobs that they hate and that make them miserable for minimal compensation that keeps them trapped in their circumstance working ever harder and longer merely to hang on.

Although she found her own path apart from her more famous husband — she was more gregarious, enjoying the company of artists, writers and intellectuals — work and circumstance worked against her.

However, the legislation as approved did not define under what circumstances working hours could be altered, suggesting that the issue should instead be left to a case-by case negotiation.

Beehr's [ 1] general model for the retirement process includes both individual resources, health in particular and environmental circumstances, working conditions in particular.

Since work ability is not a fixed either/or category, but changes over time, and with varying circumstances, working part-time may also play a role in transitions to full-time employment [ 30].

During the course of a multipart, one-note argument, Mr. Gladwell demonstrates that short teenage girls playing basketball and a schoolteacher with a 29-student classroom could make seemingly adverse circumstances work to their advantages.

Talking of Britain, he could have been representing the host nation at Wimbledon had circumstances worked out differently.

The logic of this "combo" may not have been intentional but the circumstances work well for the hope Liberals have of effecting change.

"In most political campaigns, people are thrown together in very intense circumstances, work excessive hours, drink bad beer and then they go away," he said.