Sentence examples for schoolchildren work from inspiring English sources

Inside it's all mod cons with fridge, microwave, shower and flushing toilets, while outside it's back to nature with wildflower meadows, woods and a reserve where local schoolchildren work on nature projects.

Last year, academics reported that 70% of the staff at a Honda gearbox factory were from secondary schools Nor is such exploitation merely the stuff of recent history: just last week, Foxconn admitted that it had broken the law by making schoolchildren work overtime and night shifts.

Photo: Schoolchildren worked yesterday in a classroom supplied with barrels of water in Harbin, China.

For me the highlight of the festival came when 110 New York schoolchildren, working with a choreographer and Berlin Philharmonic educators, performed an original ballet to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights, a former movie house, now a church and concert hall.

In fact, Mr. Gingrich won some of his loudest and most sustained applause when the liberal Fox News analyst Juan Williams pressed him on his call for schoolchildren to work as janitors, for his description of Mr. Obama as a "food stamp president" and remarks that Mr. Williams said, to loud boos, seemed "intended to belittle the poor".

Though major strides have been made in providing more nutritious food to schoolchildren, more work remains.

Taking a more measured approach was Kingston, whose early missteps -- he suggested schoolchildren should work for their lunches -- were smoothed by a pivotal endorsement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Now in their 80s, the former schoolchildren who worked Ishikawa's uranium mines find themselves making increasing appearances in major Japanese media.

In Islamabad, middle-class schoolchildren are working as volunteers at local hospitals, or are going house-to-house to raise funds for what they called the "mountain tsunami".

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on an upgrade to its so-called XO computer, once known as the "hundred-dollar laptop".

Compared with the schoolchildren, the working children had higher average urinary concentrations of several steel-related metals.