Sentence examples for jacks from inspiring English sources
Last month Hung Chung-chiu, who was 24, died of heat stroke after being placed in confinement for almost a week and forced to perform a harsh regime of push-ups and jumping jacks in sweltering heat.It was punishment for bringing a mobile phone with a camera on to the base, an act which, with the island thought to be crawling with Chinese spies, is deemed to be a security risk.
A BUSINESS that jacks up its prices during a recession is usually asking to lose customers.
Using hydraulic jacks, the entire building can be raised.
Some consider them jacks of all trades, not masters of their own destiny.
To do this, Kajima developed a system which holds up a building's support columns with giant hydraulic jacks.
But they also wanted to help, say, a wine merchant who wants to advocate the defeat of a politician who jacks up booze taxes.The four dissenting justices argued passionately to keep McCain-Feingold's restrictions in place.
But these teachers are not only jacks-of-all-subjects, but often novices: senior teachers get first pick of the more popular urban jobs.The power of the unionsAnother problem is language: many rural children first speak an indigenous tongue, not Spanish.
And once an entrepreneur has learned how to navigate the red tape, why not apply this valuable skill to other undertakings?Critics of Africa's parallel entrepreneurs worry that jacks-of-all-trades cannot become masters of any.
The future belongs not solely to all-in-one super-phones, though they will appeal to some people, but to a far wider range of gizmos, including dedicated devices, digital jacks-of-all-trades, and every imaginable combination in between.
Rather than trying to recognise cursive handwriting, they force users to write one letter at a time; and they are sold as companion devices to desktop PCs, rather than jacks-of-all-trades.
It makes robot arms costing $27,000 that can be quickly taught to perform routine tasks in science labs and workshops.The way will be cleared in 2014 for civilian use of flying robotsOther service robots are designed for specific jobs, rather than being jacks-of-all-trades.
