Sentence examples for rather unemployed from inspiring English sources

The result was unreasonably high inventory for each part number and millions more in working, or rather, unemployed, capital.

They weren't quite the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but rather unemployed Americans queuing for new, federally funded jobs.

Rather, unemployed workers are covered by a tier one universal minimum benefit, now called the Newstart Allowance.

Middle-class people can call themselves consultants or freelancers, rather than unemployed.

This week, he said, "I would much rather be unemployed than involved with a shaky dot-com".

Teach a child to be a hairdresser, and that they become a hairdresser rather than unemployed makes intuitive sense.

They did not mix with the soldiers but sat together in a first-class compartment, looking bored and rather like unemployed actors.

But the other half are more like retirees they are not looking for work, so are classified as inactive rather than unemployed.

Disillusion comes when she discovers that Vivien isn't a doctor but, rather, an unemployed receptionist with prospects as limited as her own.

This, though, hides the plight of millions of Britons who would never work again – those who were listed as ill, rather than unemployed.

The gap between the wider measure of unemployment and the claimant count is likely to narrow in any case as jobseekers who are not entitled to benefit give up and are reclassified as "inactive" rather than unemployed.