Sentence examples for workers for hours from inspiring English sources
Most of the cost of the fiscal 1996 closure resulted from agencies paying furloughed workers for hours they didn't actually work.
A host of logistical problems snarled traffic at the Port-au-Prince airport on Thursday, forcing the airport to turn planes away, stranding relief workers for hours and threatening to delay the relief supplies that Haiti so desperately needs.
Smartphones, Twitter and the internet can waylay workers for hours whilst longer days and less office space as employers cut costs to cope with the economic down turn also impact on feelings of well-being.
Short work schedules or work sharing programs are more complex subsidy programs; they incentivize employers to reduce labor costs along the intensive margin in contrast to the extensive margin while fully or partly reimbursing workers for hours not worked8.
Or, after being surrounded by negative co-workers for hours, an optimist may find herself convincing others that the company's future is doomed.
At the New York team's base, there were piles of cards from children, which some workers read for hours and others could not bear to read.
Rain and snow made the metal structure too slick to maneuver on, but also sometimes too slippery to descend, leaving workers trapped for hours.
ROCHESTER, N.H., Nov. 30 — A man who claimed to have a bomb walked into Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign field office here Friday and took three campaign workers hostage for hours before surrendering to the police.
He said the exploits of the two men had kept the police and rescue workers busy for hours, contributing to overtime costs in what was an expensive and dangerous stunt.
The building of the police-run rescue service collapsed after taking the brunt of the blast, and emergency workers struggled for hours to pull out the dead and wounded.
Emergency workers labored for hours to free five people trapped in the wreckage of the two-carriage tram tipped over next to an underpass in the Croydon area.
