They honor an individualism that is grounded in personal responsibility, industriousness, strong work ethic, self-reliance, self-restraint, and self-discipline, which guard against idleness and dependence.
"Police, Adjective" is initially devoted to the mole-like industriousness of police work.
Amy, who regularly wins awards for her industriousness and hard work, suddenly finds herself playing second fiddle to a teacher who obviously isn't, hasn't and won't pay her dues.
Murray writes: "Industriousness: The norms for work and women were revolutionized after 1960, but the norm for men putatively has remained the same: Healthy men are supposed to work.
For all the warm and fuzzy images of smiling women and laughing girls that appear in marketing materials, the vision of change purveyed by "empowerment lite" is frighteningly stark: one in which women and girls are recruited for their industriousness, and put to work to maintain a status quo that is deeply unjust.
Pullman hoped the comfortable, beautiful environment of his town would encourage cleanliness, industriousness and sobriety in the work force.
Let's eliminate the American system from our factories and do German quality work with soul, industriousness, joy – and do it with precision –, for again we are German and are producing wares that are presentable.
Contrast their use of public money, long holidays and low hours of work with MPs' honesty, diligence and industriousness.
The result is a sort of catalog of industriousness that compensates, partly, for other works that don't seem to be trying hard enough.
It can develop within you a strong work ethic and increase your industriousness.
