In East Germany, he was the revolutionary who labored on behalf of ordinary miners.
Lawmakers who labor on behalf of preschool programs may get stars in heaven, but they don't get squat in campaign contributions.
Like Jane Addams (1931), the pioneering Chicago social worker, Carter, in his house-building work for Habitat for Humanity, has labored on behalf of the poor, face to face and with his own hands.
The moment you designate medal-winning athletes' personal income as somehow more nobly earned than the personal income of other workers — including, I should note, social workers, teachers, artists and others who believe they labor on behalf of the "public good" — you can end up with a whole lot of me-too-ism from other people demanding similar preferential treatment.
One efficiency report from the 1960s stated that in one period of 3 hours 50 minutes, the computer scanned more than seven million messages of about 500 characters each, examining them for any of 7,000 different words or phrases of interest to the N.S.A. Stretch-Harvest labored on behalf of the agency for 14 years before being retired in 1976, a computing workhorse of the cold war.
Book editing … increasingly resembles those "caring professions," nursing and teaching, where the joy of laboring selflessly on behalf of a noble cause — in this case, literature — is supposed to make up for the lack of profits and respect.
Unaccompanied by a willingness to labor on its behalf, creative DNA is destined to remain so much dead weight on the genome.
Those without connections may have a hard time swallowing her promises to labor on their behalf, given that her path to the Senate seems to tread on their one ticket up: meritocracy.
May her luminous memories sustain them in their labors on behalf of Israel and Zion.
The event will underscore the intersection of faith and medicine, and represents the church's support for Ms. Reese's labor on behalf of the uninsured and disenfranchised.
