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"backbreaking" Definitions
  1. demanding great effort, endurance, etc.; exhausting: a backbreaking job.

217 Sentences With "backbreaking"

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"It was backbreaking," said Joie Chitwood III, the racetrack's president.
It's a place built by the backbreaking work of immigrants.
Most of this backbreaking labor was performed by African slaves.
The backbreaking hits were produced by Eduardo Nunez and Bumgarner.
At over 500 pages, the book is backbreaking in size.
All praise be to hallways, and their backbreaking tile floors.
The RS 5 is invigorating, a bit backbreaking but ultimately unforgettable.
The steering is precise and the ride firm yet not backbreaking.
Harvesting it is backbreaking labor, but it's both delicious and lucrative.
Few people realize that the food chain starts with backbreaking work.
New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
Still, Russia's military budget remains a priority despite a backbreaking national deficit.
Andrew is in a rapidly deployable combat unit with backbreaking daily hours.
Recognizing our toughest problems and getting them in check is backbreaking work.
The backbreaking play was a 31-yard touchdown reception by Terrance Williams.
A backbreaking road led Cohen from Trump's orbit to a Capitol Hill hearing.
The three men net roughly 10 grams of gold monthly from backbreaking work.
It was an awful, awful, awful, filthy, distressing, boring, time-consuming, backbreaking job.
One business wants to use robots to perform a backbreaking task — picking strawberries.
Americans are not exactly lined up to fill the backbreaking, low-paying jobs.
They are paid less than $2 an hour for hazardous and backbreaking work.
The work was fascinating, and backbreaking, and I learned a lot that day.
You're getting music being made by and for people who are doing backbreaking work.
It's not easy work: Farm workers tend fields in hot climates, doing backbreaking labor.
It weighs a backbreaking 490 lbs, but can easily climb stairs thanks to its treads.
Their work assignment was known at Sanitation Salvage as Route 20213, notoriously long and backbreaking.
It took years—hard, backbreaking years—but she picked up what there was of me.
Nearby, larger robots did the backbreaking, repetitive work of lifting and stacking filled-up cartons.
Jeff Chen: I nearly gave up on this grid skeleton about eleventy-googol times. Backbreaking.
Familia then walked Buster Posey to load the bases to set up the backbreaking blow.
The work in those walled-off institutions was backbreaking and often required handling dangerous chemicals.
Employees from Amazon's warehouses across the country have reported exploitative conditions, backbreaking labor, and low pay.
"Strawberry picking is a young person's game," Wishnatzki observed of the backbreaking nature of the job.
In 1998, Wojciech Kozak described to The New York Times the backbreaking labor on the job.
In Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria," she played a student missing from a backbreaking West Berlin dance academy.
Two batters later, Torrens clobbered the backbreaking bases-clearing triple that was nearly a grand slam.
They were offering $125 a day, but no "Americans" showed up to do the backbreaking work.
In Cote d'Ivoire, I visited the village of Adzope, where women perform backbreaking work to harvest cocoa.
"We know as construction workers they were expected to do hard, grueling, backbreaking work," Mr. Holland said.
After decades of backbreaking work, dracunculiasis is one of two human diseases on the brink of eradication.
It was backbreaking and dangerous work as the gold was extracted first using lead and then cyanide.
It's a reminder to smile every now and again, even when the weight of the world feels backbreaking.
They wanted to see if I was really up for backbreaking work in the intense South Carolina heat.
That's slightly above the median American income, but is unpredictable and comes with a lot of backbreaking work.
But the film also shows how these meals are built from the ground up, and with backbreaking work.
As farmers walked away from the land in favor of less backbreaking, more profitable ventures, forests came back.
For a woman in the public eye, digging her way out of the crazy corner is even more backbreaking.
People who have done backbreaking work or physically demanding work were no more fit in 1984 than in 1964.
Pattinson plays Ephraim, who spends his days doing the backbreaking work to keep the lighthouse clean and in order.
"These are old backbreaking places," said Randy Robertson, the 2003-year-old master of Lock and Dam No. 2200.
Being stuck in a kitchen for an ungodly number of hours doing backbreaking work has never been more glamorous.
Smith's photographs document the backbreaking work required to transform the desert into a Norman Rockwell-worthy slice of Americana.
Hand brakes have not evolved all that much since the 19th century, and applying them is slow, backbreaking work.
Most backbreaking, lethally dangerous jobs — roofer, logger, roustabout, and coal miner, to name a few — are done by men.
I grew up on a farm – but was able to trade my family's backbreaking labor for a life of writing.
In health care, we saw hundreds of thousands of deaths from medical errors, poor coordination of care and backbreaking costs.
Dockworkers are caught in indirect light and the haphazard shadows of the loading docks as they perform their backbreaking tasks.
It's backbreaking and C. and I stop midway down our row of vines to share a donut and drink seltzer.
Many died in horrific conditions on the slave boats, while survivors endured a life of misery and backbreaking farm work.
The work was backbreaking and his family faced hardship: one brother lost four fingers in a construction accident in Tehran.
She believes African agriculture needs a make-over to shed its old-fashioned image of backbreaking work with a hoe.
The journey was backbreaking, but he could take each step knowing that the earth beneath him would not fall away.
Cabrera wound up lining the ball softly back to relief pitcher Richard Bleier, who easily turned a backbreaking double play.
African-Americans were typically assigned to swampy plantations where the dangerous, backbreaking occupation of chopping sugar cane often awaited them.
Of course that had nothing to do with the difficulty getting other people to do the low-wage backbreaking labor.
Buy now: $44.50, formerly $49.50 A good luggage set can mean the difference between a relaxing jaunt and a backbreaking ordeal.
Running a street food cart is backbreaking work: schlepping around a heavy cart, then standing behind it for hours on end.
They endured a life of backbreaking work and the knowledge that they would almost certainly end up poorer than their parents.
"Lifting heavy boxes is probably the most backbreaking task in warehouse logistics," said Mujin's American co-founder and CTO, Rosen Diankov.
Back when the government first tracked workers' hours in 44, full-time manufacturing employees worked a backbreaking 100 hours each week.
More money was going to be needed, and paying upwards of 10 percent on an additional loan was a backbreaking proposition.
The backbreaking restoration work earns him sympathy, as does his first exposure to the slashing winds of the region's infamous mistral.
Migrating to California in 21975, Ladino faced years of difficult or even abusive relationships at home, or backbreaking labor at work.
Without a college degree, it can be very hard to find a good paying job that does not require backbreaking labor.
Paying low wages for backbreaking work, growers large and small have historically relied on immigrants from south of the Rio Grande.
American employers continue to assume relatively little risk by hiring undocumented immigrants to perform menial, backbreaking work, often for little pay.
Fossil fuels have allowed people to be more productive, to engage in less backbreaking manual labor, and to grow more food.
Instead of performing hours of backbreaking toil to obtain light and heat, as our ancestors did, we simply flip a switch.
Irish, Italian, Eastern European, Chinese, and most recently Latin American immigrants have done the most backbreaking work our nation has to offer.
In the same way that the loom, the mechanical loom, replaced people hand-weaving for 100 hours a week in backbreaking labour.
Using forced labor, Stanley oversaw the backbreaking construction of roads across the Congo, helping Leopold claim the territory as a private fiefdom.
Her performances evoke the kind of physical labor that has traditionally fallen to women in Thailand, linking their subjugation with backbreaking work.
In both, the opulent lifestyles were supported by the backbreaking labour of others, serfs in Russia (until 1861), slaves in the American South.
She barely peeked over the steaming pots, whereas Kirkley, a very tall dude, worked in a backbreaking 90-degree angle the entire time.
People call blue-collar work "backbreaking labor" all the time, but back pain is as much of a white-collar, developed-country problem.
They spend their backbreaking days constructing a Space Age super stadium that looks like the mothership of a race of violent alien gynecologists.
Kirk Cousins—Not a ghastly day overall, but a largely listless performance capped by a backbreaking interception on a potential game-winning drive.
When my classmates thought about applying for jobs, they were thinking about air-conditioned movie theaters and retail stores, not backbreaking manual labor.
Backbreaking physical labor and untenable poverty caused in part by pollution and climate change, suggests Booker finalist Tash Aw in his latest novel.
Even though she had completed a backbreaking workout the day before, the mere news of her diagnosis, Navratilova said, had weakened her body.
One of the most beguiling and beautiful pieces of music made in the late 20th century didn't involve backbreaking workshops and endless brain-wracking.
To take the latter first: Les Miles, Louisiana State's coach for more than 353 seasons, was fired Sunday after a backbreaking loss to Auburn.
My dad—a retired longshoreman who put in 40 backbreaking years at the Port of Houston—bought a plot of land there in 1995.
They had to contend not just with days of backbreaking work, but also with a daunting, two-week deadline to complete the challenging dig.
Rachel Wharton writes: Running a street food cart is backbreaking work: dragging around a heavy cart, then standing behind it for hours on end.
Lawmakers want to prevent doctors and other specialists from charging backbreaking fees to desperate patients who have no capacity to negotiate or refuse care.
The notebook — and Cristiano's narration — becomes a portal into a peripatetic life marked by fleeting friendships and relentless privations, countless miles and backbreaking labor.
To make it to the Olympics, not to mention fighting your way to the medal podium, required enduring "a huge, backbreaking path," she wrote.
Yet under Mr. Maduro and his predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, Venezuela's economy spiraled into mismanagement, corruption and backbreaking debt.
It's that they don't have the luxury of pity in the backbreaking, emotionally draining, and unbelievably rewarding job of fostering achievement in low-income kids.
Some have been pushed from their homes because of violence, or made to perform backbreaking work in dangerous environments, just to help their families survive.
The work is backbreaking and emotionally exhausting, Zachmeyer says—families who are unused to getting help feel the need to justify why they deserve it.
But for the foreseeable future, miners will continue to do backbreaking, lung-infecting labor to bring us the ingredients of the iPhone and smartphones everywhere.
For workers, the promise of health care benefits in retirement was part of the incentive to do the backbreaking, lung-crushing work of mining coal.
As they suffer through backbreaking work and the heartbreak of their parents' being sold away, they are both inspired by their parents' dreams of freedom.
As I noted earlier this year, backbreaking deference to the privacy and reputations of powerful Australians is a hallmark of the country's approach to press freedom.
In a packing plant in Salinas, robots on some lines did the backbreaking work of lifting and stacking boxes that they had filled with lettuce bags.
Performed a cappella, the songs spin tales of mythologically mean prison guards, and loves and lives lost, and the backbreaking purgatory of unendingly repetitive physical tasks.
For decades, the blue bloods around Park Avenue came here to pick up Americana, Asian decorative arts, English silverware and backbreaking amounts of heavy brown furniture.
The unrest has also affected newer industries, including companies that provide food delivery and ride-sharing services, as workers complain of backbreaking schedules and low pay.
YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - When the Siberian winter bites and the mighty Lena River freezes, workers at the Yakutsk shipyard brace for a backbreaking but vital task - 'vymorozka'.
When Orwell visited Wigan, however, the working class existed as a clear socioeconomic category defined by backbreaking work for near-starvation wages in coal mines and factories.
He'd tried making them before, coming home from backbreaking days of gigs to spend all night in front of a laptop, flipping samples and programming drum parts.
What was great about that job is that it was a combination of the most humbling, backbreaking work, along with the most sublime high-end creative work.
If a year of backbreaking lows and mind-bending pain would ultimately be erased in the fog of complacency and ingratitude, what did it all amount to?
Bereft of language, status and self in a foreign land, Unnikrishnan's characters radiate desperation and desire as they perform backbreaking work and cope with second-class citizenship.
By killing off local inhabitants and enslaving Africans to do the backbreaking labor of tending the sugar plant, European settlers managed to build a huge production complex.
There are apple farmers who've taken advantage of the apple picking trend and others who just don't understand why urbanites want to do backbreaking migrant labor for leisure.
To a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of backbreaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.
Instead of digitizing every one of Bosch's brushstrokes with backbreaking accuracy, the video replicates the painting clearly enough so I can experience its details in an intimate environment.
Cohen's process seems to include physical sympathy, by way of backbreaking labor, with the necessity of constructing (rather than accepting as given) a corporeal identity, step by painstaking step.
Moore passed for 220 yards and delivered a backbreaking 26-yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill with 25:25 left in the third quarter for a 221-103 margin.
"These retirees earned their retirement benefits through decades of dangerous, backbreaking work providing our nation with the energy it needed to become the most powerful on earth," he said.
Younger, better educated migrants often reject such poorly paid, harsh work, and modern transportation has cut demand for the backbreaking job of hauling loads up and down Chongqing's hills.
Whalen had 19 points and 7 assists in just 24 minutes in Game 1, scoring 12 in the fourth quarter, with a backbreaking 3-pointer in the final seconds.
"Backbreaking," Brett Brown, the 227ers' coach, called Leonard's shot, converted over the 22019-foot Joel Embiid with 23 seconds remaining and the Raptors clinging to a 903-290 lead.
The jobs may be seasonal or not pay as well as mining jobs; on the other hand, they are not as backbreaking and they foster a local creative class.
It sounds very nice and pretty now to say "agrarian," but the dark side of that was poverty and hunger and backbreaking labor for the vast majority of people.
But she said she moved to the United States two years ago because, even if farm labor is backbreaking, her life and prospects are better here than in Mexico.
I'm assuming it's a cost-saving measure to include it all in a single book, and while not backbreaking to bust it out, the setup process could be smoother.
The man barking orders - known in Burmese as a "dote-kai", or a stick-holder - was a prisoner appointed to supervise the labor in return for avoiding backbreaking work himself.
"Most aspects of life in 19102 (except for the rich) were dark, dangerous, and involved backbreaking work," he wrote in a paper that appeared a few years before the book.
In London, people started noticing lots of chimney sweeps developing scrotal cancer in the 1770s, and further studies found a link between the backbreaking chimney work and higher cancer rates.
Still, Mr. Chang and Ms. Fishkin emphasized that the thousands of Chinese migrants contributed more than backbreaking labor, and that their story is more nuanced than one of thankless toil.
We don't witness the daily, backbreaking work in the field, and a whipping happens offstage, but we do see the pervasive, watchful overseers, with their guns and their hound dog.
On top of the countless biographies that aim to spin new stories about Plath's short life, two backbreaking volumes of her collected letters have hit bookstores in the past two years.
He claimed the company's higher-than-minimum hourly wage enticed him to apply though he quickly realized that the long hours and backbreaking work were not worth the modest pay bump.
It is a society turned upside down, a place where educated people abandon once-comfortable jobs in the city for dangerous, backbreaking work in muddy pits, desperate to make ends meet.
The journey to Curaçao takes them on a 215-mile crossing filled with backbreaking swells, gangs of armed boatmen and coast guard vessels looking to capture migrants and send them home.
Wisconsin then put together the backbreaking drive, going 96 yards in six plays and taking a 31-10 lead with 11:05 left on an 11-yard touchdown run by Taylor.
Tomoji Kobata, who was a former miner on the island, recalls the "backbreaking work" of laboring in the tunnels and how he'd collapse from exhaustion at the end of each day.
That the children are left unsupervised because their parents can't escape their backbreaking work in the sugar cane fields speaks to the ways that racial oppression shows up in their daily lives.
Traditionally, perhaps because it required tidy-mindedness rather than physical strength, gleaning was left to women—as were other backbreaking tasks, such as turnip- and potato-picking, or ridding fields of stones.
I've found estimates that survival farming, meaning growing all your own calories by farming things like beans and potatoes, takes anywhere from 2 to 30 acres, and a lot of backbreaking labor.
Maybe, despite working for a tech publication, it's because I am too regularly overwhelmed by even basic consumer technologies, including (especially) my iPhone, a composite of dredged-up Earth and backbreaking labor.
A lawsuit has just been filed against the reality show stars, claiming that they denied their restaurant employees the right to receive the wages and tips they spent countless backbreaking hours earning.
Boys are set to work by local residents at backbreaking jobs in construction and in the fields for less than $5 a day until they earn enough to afford the $1,500 passage.
"Down the River," her commanding work, alludes to the practice of separating slaves — and prisoners to this day — from their families and sentencing them to backbreaking labor on the South's cotton plantations.
These jobs require backbreaking physical labor, and are often monotonous and tedious, requiring workers to repeat the same motions or tasks for upwards of 12 hours a day, six days a week.
It's supposed to be a short job — two weeks at most — but for all the skill of the digger and the backbreaking labor of his apprentice, the site refuses to yield water.
Fighting wildfires is backbreaking work: Firefighters work for 14 days straight, 16 hours a day, pounding the earth on rocky, steep terrain, all while carrying 50 pounds of gear on their backs.
Few visitors make it out to the sleepy fishing village of Com, a backbreaking seven-hour drive from the capital, and usually no one except the locals ever dives into its waters.
Or do you think of an exhausted, dirty, blistered laborer enduring backbreaking work from sunup till sundown, with constant worry about making ends meet and the threat of severe weather destroying crops?
Colombian voters' rejection on Sunday of a peace agreement to end the country's 52-year conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was a backbreaking defeat for the Bogota government.
A state created by gold was now covered in farms—"factories in the fields," as Carey McWilliams once described them, where tens of thousands of migrant pickers did backbreaking work for abysmal wages.
But for Susama Das and her husband, migrating part of the year from their village to India's Odisha state, for backbreaking labor planting rice and working at a shrimp farm, is paying off.
"Despite being a fan of the wilderness and going "somewhere quiet to recharge," she loves India, which she calls "sensationally charming and grandiose and then other times kind of backbreaking and eye-watering.
Under a 1970s executive action, farmworkers in the state get overtime after a 60 hour week or a 10-hour day, leading to long, backbreaking shifts and six-day work weeks, Rodriguez said.
Indiana then scored a backbreaking touchdown at the end of the first half, as Ramsey scored on a 216-yard touchdown run with 13 seconds remaining to give Indiana a 21-224 lead.
But on third-and-8 from the Saints 36, with 2 minutes 30 seconds remaining, a pass-interference call on Giants cornerback Donte Deayon gave New Orleans (3-73) a backbreaking first down.
Their backbreaking work is amply acknowledged, but "Bitter Rice" is neorealism plus — a crime melodrama encompassing instances of theft, sabotage, rape, childbirth, references to abortion and multiple violent deaths, including one by suicide.
To Mr. Tropini, that status resulted from the backbreaking labor of pioneers like his grandfather, who arrived in the state of Entre Rios from his native Italy and turned the land into prosperity.
Pellitieri is devoted to his 22017 employees and even offers profit-sharing bonuses, but he was quick to point out that the actual work was backbreaking and paid only about $22017 an hour.
Pellitieri is devoted to his 22017 employees and even offers profit-sharing bonuses, but he was quick to point out that the actual work was backbreaking and paid only about $22017 an hour.
Spraying fields with pesticides and fertilizers, the drones -- which can cover up to 60 acres a day -- could boost crop yields, save time and make backbreaking field work much easier, according to Bug Away.
What the study, of place and memory and ownership, lacks in body it makes up for in visuals: swooping drone shots of vineyards across four seasons and the harvest in all its backbreaking glory.
The tilt toward business is a very, very good thing, because small- to medium-sized businesses — like mine — have been truly suffering and unable to hire thanks to the backbreaking taxes on our business.
Kipnis, a suburban Chicago native, provided a backbreaking 402-foot shot to the Wrigley Field bleachers as the Indians beat the Chicago Cubs 7-2 and claim a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
Whether you dodged religious nutjobs or drunk camp counselors, stocked grocery stores or engaged in backbreaking menial labor, those memories of your worst summer job stay with you long after you've collected that last paycheck.
Wisconsin pulled within 60-54 with 1:30 remaining, but a backbreaking 3-pointer by Wagner with 1:01 remaining gave Michigan a 63-203 lead and all but put the game out of reach.
It's not the Goldman Sachs investor making seven figures who needs another politician championing his or her interests, it's the factory worker or bus driver putting in backbreaking work every day who needs a champion.
In the lettuce fields of California's Salinas Valley, a new machine plies row after row of romaine lettuce, doing the backbreaking work, long performed by people, of lobbing heads of romaine lettuce from the field.
One and all, they went in search of a life free from the restraints of the socialized world, to a place where survival depended on the exercise of one's own wit and strength and backbreaking labor.
It is backbreaking work, which she does mostly alone, hauling water from a cistern in the valley below, pruning trees, grafting new plants even as she tries to keep deer, boars, squirrels and birds at bay.
For years there was no news of Mr. Dith, who had disguised his educated background and survived beatings, backbreaking labor and a diet of insects, rodents and as little as a tablespoon of rice a day.
For several months, developers and farmers in northeast Japan have been testing a new drone that can hover above paddy fields and perform backbreaking tasks in a fraction of the time it takes for elderly farmers.
The backbreaking task of discovering and exploring Mexico's many clandestine graves has often fallen on the shoulders of families and loved ones of the disappeared, as well as non-governmental organizations that assist in the process.
The Sky News investigation found children as young as 4 years old working in the mines, crippling health issues linked to fumes, and pay equivalent to around a dime for a day's worth of backbreaking labor.
Yet if it hadn't been for dedicated vignerons like Auguste Clape and Noël Verset, who persisted in the backbreaking labor required to tend the steep, hillside vineyards in the lean postwar years, Cornas might have been forgotten.
" She described Haddish's comments in the Hollywood Unlocked interview as "extremely disrespectful to the backbreaking work of our activists who have been fighting this regime for decades, most of whom still are imprisoned because of their work.
Starting at age 229, the unschooled Mr. García embarked on a journey that drew on native intelligence, natural gift and a willingness to take on backbreaking work to make something of himself — in his case, a chef.
It was Brasher's own grandfather who, after waking up in the middle of the night with shooting pain from the backbreaking process of filling the mellowcreme molds by hand, developed a machine that would automatically fill the molds.
Tiny homes are popular, especially because clearing larger lots is such a backbreaking process: Aside from having to gouge out holes for septic systems, homeowners must constantly battle back the jungle that closes in, fire ants in tow.
When the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig hit what felt like a backbreaking homer that left the Red Sox trailing by 21-23 in the sixth inning of Game 2215, Sale lit into his teammates with an expletive-filled rant.
People who have been discriminated against and deprived of essential services are not just having to eke out an existence on a daily basis—which is backbreaking enough—but must do so under the constant threat of extreme violence.
That Telltale found itself in such a precarious financial position, one where they couldn't provide even the barest minimum of extended assistance for employees at a company with well-reported backbreaking work conditions, is maddening, frustrating, and morally bankrupt.
The work is backbreaking, and in this era, wages were tied to productivity, meaning workers didn't get a decent base wage; they could not earn enough to live on unless they produced a certain profit margin for the company.
The simplest reason for those parties to be champing at the bit over Immerge is because creating immersive environments that take advantage of the freedom of motion offered by the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive requires backbreaking work.
What it might need is better goaltending after Ryan Zapolski allowed four goals on 26 shots, including Kovalchuk's two backbreaking goals less than 33 seconds apart at the end of the second period and the start of the third.
Cleveland has continued to keep pace with Golden State, not letting what could be a backbreaking play, like Nick Young managing to score off an inbound pass with just 1043 seconds left on the shot clock, break their spirit.
The itinerant workers were considered subhuman and made 40 cents a day if they were chosen by the overseer, doing backbreaking work on land that was not theirs, walking several hours back and forth to the farm each day.
What we do "know" is largely idealized: Farmers work long hours, the work is backbreaking, they are the best, most salt-of-the-earth people, and they deserve all the praise, because they're a big part of America's economic backbone.
The price is meant to ease pervasive farmer poverty that has become a blight on chocolate's image and a threat to the sector's future in West Africa, as young people walk away from a life of backbreaking labour with little reward.
Clinton outlined a variety of goals to help reduce the stresses on working parents, including encouraging employers to improve "unpredictable, absolutely backbreaking schedules" for workers and expanding home visiting programs, in which nurses and social workers visit new and expectant parents.
And in the country's north, on scorching fields a few miles from the Syrian border, Badra Hadahed, a diabetic grandmother doing backbreaking work, no longer worries that she will be plucked from the cucumber fields and sent back to her home.
Offering no hint of the backbreaking drudgery and mental strain of their predicament, this gauzy picture (produced by the couple's son, Jonathan Cavendish, and directed by his friend, the actor Andy Serkis) is a closed loop of rose-tinted memories.
Cocaine was widely used by black railroad workers of the time—some of their bosses even promoted this use to spur their backbreaking labor, according to Scott Reynolds Nelson, in his history of the folk legend railway worker, John Henry, Steel Drivin' Man.
Destitute families did whatever it took to send their offspring, especially their sons, to school, considering education the best ticket for their children to escape lives of backbreaking work and poverty in the belt-tightening years following the Korean War's end in 1953.
As many as 85033,000 North Korean citizens who have committed no crime are held without any semblance of due process in labor camps where they face starvation, torture, backbreaking labor, a daily fear of execution, and no chance of release or escape.
The floor price is meant to ease pervasive farmer poverty that has become a blight on chocolate's image and a threat to the sector's future in West Africa, as young people walk away from a life of backbreaking labor with little reward.
Between 60 and 75 million people are employed in the textile, clothing, and footwear sector across the globe, often working very long hours, under deplorable conditions and in unsafe and unhygienic factories, while receiving poverty-level wages in return for backbreaking work.
But 15 people who worked in Tesla's factory within the last five years describe it as a backbreaking job that placed workers under tremendous pressure to produce — a result of the company's ambitious production targets — that they say led, in some cases, to lifelong injuries.
And while there are more than a few references to the Okies, there is no acknowledgment of the more than three million migrant workers in this country, who perhaps pick the same fruit and work the same backbreaking jobs as Bruder's white would-be retirees.
The Oscars, in particular, with their costly, glitzy, backbreaking campaign season and outsize influence on the way we talk about movies all year, feel at times diametrically opposed to the role art ought to play both in the lives of individuals and in broader society.
Armed with the education and encouragement they had given me, I boldly set my eyes on college, graduate school and the sort of vocation no one from my family had ever known: to get paid for my ideas and creativity rather than for backbreaking or unfulfilling labor.
Because when middle- and upper-class white women were emerging from their domestic slumber to demand a place in the workforce, black women had already endured racism and sexism in workplaces in the North and the West, and faced terror and backbreaking labor in the South.
There are a lot of reasons why experts are trusted less, but MBAs who swear the only way to save a profitable company is by loading it up with backbreaking debt, and economists who dismiss the human impact of trade, could be among the guilty parties.
It was low pay and backbreaking work, but I liked it because a lot of the time it involved just sitting in the truck and, because the guy I worked with was thankfully a quiet type, this gave me plenty of space and time to think.
The team didn't buckle, just as that crinkle-skinned guy at the end of the bar won't, however many Einstök whites and imported blondes he necks over the course of his sole day off from schlepping backbreaking nets on a fishing boat for six out of seven.
One episode a day will halfway catch up anyone who thought they'd wait until they had some time to binge watch the story of a woman trapped in a system of institutionalized sex slavery from which the only escape is death, or backbreaking labor followed by a different death.
Harvey, brought on in the fifth inning, got through the first four batters he faced, and then fell apart in the seventh, walking three batters, allowing a run-scoring single and another run on a sacrifice fly, capped by a backbreaking, three-run home run to Ozzie Albies.
Yes, doctors who want to go into underserved and low-paying fields of medicine (such as primary care) and poorly served populations should not be saddled with backbreaking debt, but no one should go into these fields only because he or she will not have loans to repay.
And while founders and employees in startup land certainly work hard, wearing their 80-hour workweeks as a badge of honor, closing deals on conference calls in an air-conditioned WeWork is a far cry from the backbreaking working conditions of the 1880s, the era when Labor Day was born.
Zume is looking to be the fulcrum for a wider push toward automation for the food industry, one that frees up humans to work on the more creative tasks like creating recipes (and in the case of pizza, some truly goofy names), while robots do the boring and backbreaking stuff.
He scrutinized his father, a man who dropped out of school in seventh grade and picked cotton so his mother and siblings could eat, who fought in the Korean War and who for decades worked backbreaking jobs to support Morline Lowe, the Arkansas beauty he married in 1955, and their children.
And there is uncommon skill and courage among the unsung immigrants who have done the dangerous, backbreaking work over the decades: the Chinese who blasted the Transcontinental Railroad through the Sierras and the Rockies; the Irish who dug the Erie Canal, and riveted together our skyscrapers; the descendants of those forced "immigrants," enslaved Africans, who dug out so many tunnels as sand hogs.
Comprised of a cotton gin motor encased in a sound-proof display case — the former of which he purchased on ebay and later rebuilt after a revelatory trip back to Virginia — "A view of a landscape" acts as a potent vehicle for exploring the legacy of enslavement in the US, and particularly the way the institution reduced human beings to property, no more than the sum of backbreaking, forced labor.

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