Sentence examples for lacked a work from inspiring English sources

And while Kanyinda was eager to get a job, he lacked a work permit, which takes months to process.

In 1947, he moved to Hamburg, in the British occupation zone, to continue his training at one of Germany's biggest publishing houses, but had to leave because he lacked a work permit.

In an interview, Mr. Williams said he questioned Mr. Gingrich about his "food stamp president" comments and his suggestions that poor children lacked a work ethic and should be put to work as janitors because he found the remarks to be "racially charged".

From 1993 onwards, he flourished in a Somalia that has lacked a working central government for 20 years.

Robert Byrnes, the Fire Department's assistant chief fire marshal, said the third-floor apartment also lacked a working smoke alarm.

The judge cited the obvious dangers of a day care center that lacked a working sprinkler and smoke alarm.

A leaking natural gas well that has displaced thousands of residents in Porter Ranch lacked a working safety valve, sparking new questions about how the facility was maintained.

As a result, business and public health leaders lacked a working understanding of one another's capabilities and vulnerabilities and, thus, of optimal ways to engage in mutually beneficial collaborations [ 8, 9].

Just 28% said it's because poor Americans lack a work ethic.

He lectures black people about valuing jobs and children in the purgatory of housing projects for lacking a work ethic.

Gingrich has described bilingual education as teaching "the language of living in a ghetto," and said that poor urban children come from communities that lack a "work ethic".