Sentence examples for toil far from inspiring English sources

As a spate of strikes for higher pay in southern China shows, employers are also jacking up wages in their coastal factories to lure migrant workers increasingly reluctant to toil far from home in alien and alienating factory towns.

The term "corporate apartment" usually conjures up images of residential luxury writ large on the expense accounts that companies approve to keep their executives happy while they toil far from home.

AS a visual development artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Mark Walton normally toils far from public view.

For those toiling far below the surface of the Earth, the proposed system could prove a godsend.

Some of the state's most original talents are toiling far below the cultural radar, stuck in an independent film ecosystem that is proving inhospitable to low-budget projects that do not feature Hollywood stars.

Yet Ms. Gordon, partly by choice, partly by default, has for most of her career toiled far from Big Yolk — or its real-life, publishing equivalent, the Big Apple — exiled to the world of chapbooks and small presses.

He dedicates "The Butler" to "the heroes of the civil rights movement" and leaves no doubt that people like the title character — including the unsung maids, Pullman porters, janitors and kitchen workers who toiled far from the White House — belong in that category.

Strictly as a matter of mathematics, black history in this country consists primarily of slavery: what Lincoln called "the bondsman's 250 years of unrequited toil" still far exceeds the time blacks have actually been free.

The assembly-line toil became far less attractive, and meat processors, already facing a labor shortage as the rural population shrank, began turning elsewhere for workers.

You could read the whole film as a reactionary plea for less transparency — for agents toiling so far below the surface of civil society, on our behalf, that we should not insult them with petty requests that they remain accountable.

To put it mildly, this was the last place one would expect to find President Lincoln visiting a regiment-sized Union encampment: Confederate sympathizers playing host to Union officers; Northern soldiers toiling not far from enslaved African-Americans.