Sentence examples for work and thrift from inspiring English sources
Tax law should not discourage savings and investment, nor punish hard work and thrift.
They have little desire to replace traditions of hard work and thrift with a flabby welfare dependency.
We could have a tax system that encourages good things like hard work and thrift and discourages bad things, like rent-seeking, gambling, financial speculation and pollution.
It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.
It argued that it was the individualism and the ethic of hard work and thrift of Calvinist Protestantism that had fostered industrial organization and an efficient workforce in northern Europe.
In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged "scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain".On the face of it his claim appears persuasive still.
He praised Frederick's Prussian virtues, like hard work, honesty and thrift.
In a small island Asian nation state such as Singapore, societal values such as hard work and productivity, thrift, long-term orientation and pragmatism flourish.
Her values were simple and straightforward, based on the austere Methodism of her childhood – hard work, self-discipline and thrift.
They described an urban culture conscious of boundaries and criteria for inclusion and exclusion; focused on work, thrift, and restraint; and overwrought with vagabonds, landlopers, beggars, tricksters, outsiders a population both created and demonized by society and portrayed in sordid detail by period art (3 ).
They brought with them ancient habits of hard work, cooperation, self-denial and thrift.
