Sentence examples for that once employed from inspiring English sources

Compared with the furniture and textiles factories that once employed thousands, the victory may seem minor.

Today, an industry that once employed 70,000 people provides jobs for just under 10,000.

The unions, which often have business before the Legislature, have large sums in an investment fund that once employed Mr. Bruno.

A Brooklyn man was charged yesterday in the stabbing deaths last month of two men who worked at a Queens supermarket that once employed the suspect, prosecutors said.

Janesville has suffered deep job losses from deindustrialization; a General Motors plant that once employed seven thousand people closed in 2009.

Last year, the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm that once employed the first President George Bush, paid $20 million to settle charges related to the investigation.

Together with Thiru Yovel, my colleague at the Clean Clothes Campaign international secretariat, I spent the morning clambering in blistering sun over the debris of a building that had once employed more than 3,000 workers.

Cindy, one of the clients in Coopersville that morning, was once employed by a food pantry before she required assistance herself.

When it came out that Ross was once employed as a corrections officer, he shrugged it off and continued making music about dealing cocaine and being a gangster.

Also, he tried to get some mileage out of the fact that Mitt had once employed illegal immigrants to tend his yard.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y., Nov. 30 — It is part of the local lore, the way people in some cities know the win-loss record of their N.F.L. team, that the General Electric Company once employed 40,000 people here and now employs about 3,000.