Sentence examples for workman from inspiring English sources
noun
A man who labours for wages
But after he pleaded guilty at Gunnedah local court on Wednesday to hindering a workman in the use of property, those offences were withdrawn.
In 1903 he told a reporter at the New York Times: "The trouble with the British workman is that he does not work enough.
Before the ceremony, a workman, busy dusting the podium on which the new king was to take his oath of office, was called away to the more important task of wiping clean a nearby portrait of Hussein.
Adam Smith, economist (1723 90), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)"In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate".
"I've been chasing them for two years," groans one workman in a hard hat, ducking under a tangle.
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers," Smith wrote.
At Punchestown yesterday Sizing Europe was another odds-on winner – in his case 1-8 – but although his 10-length defeat of Foildubh was more workman-like than spectacular in testing conditions, it was decisive enough and a job perfectly satisfactorily done ahead of Cheltenham.
Welcoming the news, Prof Paul Workman, interim chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, said: "It's great news that Nice has given the green light to use dabrafenib on the NHS.
"The evidence of olaparib's benefit in women with BRCA-positive ovarian tumours is very clear," said Prof Paul Workman, chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, whose scientists helped develop the drug.
But judge Timothy Workman, sitting at City of Westminster magistrates court in London, said that "having heard the evidence from all the witnesses, I cannot be sure that this was not an accident".
In a recent essay on America's over-abundance of trees, two fire ecologists at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Helen Poulos and James Workman, estimate that a typical over-forested acre today transpires an extra 2.3 acre-feet of water annually enough to meet the needs of four families.
