Sentence examples for is laboring in from inspiring English sources

At M.I.T.'s New Media Lab, a team of professors and students is laboring in an environment of unbridled creativity, freed from bottom-line pressure or corporate politics (thanks to financing by Kraft, Unilever and the Defense Department, among others).

Santoro, the jazz critic for The Nation, is laboring in the shadow of two vivid portraits in two previous biographies: Brian Priestley's elegant "Mingus: A Critical Biography" (1982), and Mingus's own fanciful autobiography "Beneath the Underdog" (1971) -- not to mention the formidable journalism of Nat Hentoff.

Their lives are meaningless; they kick the shit out of each other at Cro-Mags ("Iron Skulls") shows; they are at war with another gang; their well-meaning but powerless English teacher is laboring in vain to help them appreciate Walt Whitman.

"Where were you when I was laboring in the vineyard?" Mr. Byrd asked.

He may be laboring in the long shadow of Hillary Rodham Clinton's national celebrity.

Since then I have been laboring in obscurity, contributing to The Wall Street Journal.

Over the fields, the hawks are laboring in an absence of updrafts.

But then again, Mr. Weiner, 52, has hardly been laboring in obscurity.

Ms. Ripley and especially Mr. Emmick give witty bona-fide musical comedy performances, which may be laboring in vain.

"Danny has been laboring in the vineyards for over 30 years, while Lee has been sipping wine in Washington for 30 years," Mr. Bayer said.

Both Mitt Romney and Representative Ron Paul, whose organizations have been laboring in the signature-gathering vineyards for months, were able to get on the Virginia ballot.