Sentence examples for or industrious from inspiring English sources

A loner hero who excels at combat — this is not the provenance of miscast heroes or industrious everymen.

Wealth accrues not to the most imaginative or industrious but to those who rise up through the chain of patronage.

He didn't need to add that, given his humble background, he wouldn't have attained the top job at Merrill had he not been diligent or industrious.

Others may not have been fortunate enough (or industrious enough, I considered interjecting) to land an internship during their junior year with a hot Hollywood production company, as had Adam.

They can make their characters lazy slackers or industrious executives.

(3) Fatalism has detrimental social consequences: If people listen to the fatalists, they will devote no effort to being virtuous or industrious.

It is up to us if artificial intelligence technology makes us smarter or dumber, more industrious or lazy, says Arkin. "It is changing us, the way we operate.

"We are the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life," says the prime minister, using his now favourite form of cant, but it is perfectly possible to be a working person, or an industrious person who through retirement, disability or bad luck no longer works, and be made desperately insecure by Cameron's policies.

This debate, and others, focuses on the question of whether or not Voltaire was prescribing passive retreat from society, or active industrious contribution to it.

Continue on West Hill Street to Graycliff Cigar Company and find a dozen or so industrious hand-rollers and a dimly lighted, well air-conditioned smoking lounge.

Or rather, industrious fellow that Bell is, he's written and noodled: the novelist has also come up with melodies for some of the band's original songs.