Sentence examples for which laid him from inspiring English sources

Xija Chen, a Chinese computer scientist living in southern California, has filed suit against his former employer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, which laid him off in early May.

There he leads a team that assembles parts for wind turbines, earning slightly less than he did at United States Steel, which laid him off from his crane operator's job after 25 years.

With his Glaswegian accent strong but his voice weakened after the chest infections which laid him low for months last year, he showed off an impressive vocabulary and notable disdain for the psychiatric profession.

With the profits from Ciao Bella he had gotten his bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia; he worked at Lehman Brothers for five years, then at ABN Amro, which laid him off in June 2001.

He canceled our fourth date because of exhaustion; a few weeks later he had the flu; after that, a blood vessel burst in his eye ("I can't go out like this!" he said when I urged him to join me for dinner anyway); then he tripped and broke an ankle, which laid him up for weeks.

What renders him fascinating to biographers are the streaks of ambition, jealousy, and impulsiveness that led him into disastrous personal clashes the rupture with Washington in 1781, which luckily did him no harm; an adulterous affair in 1791, which laid him open to blackmail; the assault on Adams that doomed Federalist prospects in 1800; and perhaps even the duel in which he died.

Worse, the disease which laid them low is still spreading through their neighbours and other emerging markets.

It then emerged that Mr Latham was ill with a renewed attack of pancreatitis, which had laid him low before last year's election.

When he moves, he winces slightly with his bad back, which has laid him up for the best part of a year.

On the same page, under the headline "Man who lost job told to work unpaid for same firm", is the story of John McArthur, who has been sanctioned by the Department for Work and Pensions for declining to work unpaid for the same company which had laid him off.

A particular sore point is Carper's 2006 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the federal bench, which laid the groundwork for Trump to nominate him to the Supreme Court (Carper has said his past support for Kavanaugh was a mistake).