Sentence examples for except for the workers from inspiring English sources

There is no "common life" except for the workers' desperate effort to stick together as they look ahead to weeks or months without pay — or, perhaps, a future without a job.

Except for the workers stepping past boxes of new floor tiles and appliances, the inside was as quiet as it has been since June, when the old place closed its doors.

But except for the workers with less than a year's seniority, Chrysler's labor contracts guarantee that furloughed workers continue to draw 95percentt of their after-tax, straight-time pay, excluding overtime, through a combination of state unemployment benefits and supplemental payments from the company.

Everyone, that is, except for the workers.

Except for the foreign workers on Fridays, you hardly see anyone drunk at all".

Downtown Chicago is deserted on Saturday mornings, except for the construction workers remaking Wacker Drive, a major downtown thoroughfare.

People called me 'chink.' At that time in San Francisco, there were very few Chinese here except for the railroad workers who spoke Cantonese and were from Canton, they were centered around Chinatown.

My neighborhood, named "Neighborhood," is deserted except for the social worker you trapped in my front yard.

Second, starting benefits could be based on how much prices, rather than wages, have risen during a beneficiary's working life, except for the lowest-paid workers.

It's always been the case that new technology improved the goods and services for consumers while boosting business profitability, and it's been hard to ignore the benefits for everyone, except for the laid-off workers.

- Males are still not involved in safe motherhood activities, except for the male health workers.