Sentence examples for customs worker from inspiring English sources

They could be Ulrike, a magazine writer and single mother who lives in West Berlin, or Eamon, a customs worker and father of four in Northern Ireland.

At twenty, Heyward, who had been weakened by a bout of polio at eighteen, got a job as a customs worker among black stevedores on the Charleston waterfront and was awed by their strength.

Russell Rogers, the furloughed customs worker from West Chester, Pa., is sitting in his 2000 Toyota Echo in a church parking lot.

These will involve detailed, technical discussions on issues including customs, workers' rights, environmental protections and security.

But customs workers videotaped them stuffing merchandise into their jacket pockets, Mr. Gil Díaz, the finance minister, said.

Last week French unions representing around 17,000 customs workers rejected a government offer of a €14m payroll boost, saying it was insufficient.

In an indication of Brazil's strengthening economy, the country registered a trade surplus of $183 million in April despite a strike of customs workers that virtually paralyzed commerce at the beginning of the month.

The FBI is testing a substance in a package at John F Kennedy International Airport in "an abundance of caution" after two customs workers reported they felt ill after opening it Sunday.

First, we must insist that the Iraqi government replace the customs workers at the 14 land border crossings with a new set of at least 1,400 elite officials jointly selected and vetted by the Iraqi ministries and the coalition forces.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Janet Napolitano, the United States homeland security secretary, said Saturday that her department planned to triple the number of agents in Afghanistan to train border and customs workers — an effort that is partly aimed at curbing the smuggling of cash out of the country.

To be sure, security at this port -- the nation's ninth biggest by dollar volume -- has been stepped up, some costly overtime work is still required, customers are extra vigilant about the timeliness of shipments, and the strain of more than three weeks of 12- and 13-hour shifts for customs workers still lingers.