Sentence examples for given up actively from inspiring English sources
This excludes so-called "discouraged workers" — people who say they want a job but have given up actively looking because they believe that none are available.
There are still 14 million people officially unemployed, and nearly 12 million more who have given up actively looking for work or who are working part time but need full-time jobs.
The overwhelming fact about the U.S. economy right now is that there aren't enough jobs; the standard unemployment rate actually understates the problem, because it looks as if a fair number of workers have given up actively looking, and are therefore not counted as unemployed.
We know that high unemployment rates in the United States contribute to a discouraged-worker effect, in which people give up actively searching for employment and drop out of the labor force.
"I've given up on actively pursuing Xbox One developer status," he said by email, "and I've set Microsoft a challenge – the only way I will believe that they are truly being indie friendly is when I see an Xbox One dev-kit arrive at my front door within the next month.
The fact that U.S. multinationals have not given up and are actively dealing with this tax challenge does not mean that the status quo fossilized in our outdated tax code shouldn't be addressed and in an urgent manner no less.
But in South Australia's case it can partly be explained through a decline in its participation rate – people have in effect found the fight to get a job so hard they have given up and are no longer actively looking for work.
