Sentence examples for had quit working from inspiring English sources

By 1991, he had quit working with political clients.

He could commute from New Jersey, and Ms. Taggart, who had quit working to devote herself to being a painter, could continue being a suburban artist-housewife.

Ganas members said after the shooting that she had quit working at the commune-run thrift store and had stopped contributing to the group's finances.

He said that when Mrs. Santorum, a nurse and a lawyer, had quit working to raise the couple's children, she felt that many people "looked down their nose at that decision".

An entrepreneur and onetime New York Congressional candidate (he ran as a Republican against the incumbent, Ed Koch), Sprague had quit working on a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia to start a chicken farm in Iran.

"I could have quit working 20 years ago.

R. Hunter Biden, the 38-year-old son of the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., has quit working as a Washington lobbyist, a job that had sparked controversy given Senator Barack Obama's denunciations of influence-peddling in the capital.

The idea of testing chemotherapy and other drugs in this continuous, low-dose way is still very much in its infancy, and doctors say it should be offered only to people who have no other options -- people like Melanie who have advanced tumors that standard treatment cannot cure, or those for whom standard chemotherapy has quit working.

European lawyers and accountants have quit working for the family, which has had to explain itself to its business partners, such as the Singapore Port Authority, with which they're developing a port in Aden, Yemen.

To McGrath, the discontent in her district is rooted in the belief that both parties have quit working on behalf of the common voter.

By June 30, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads had quit work rather than handle Pullman cars.