Employers

Examples

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His employers constitute the third order, that of those who live by profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Its great price generally arises from the wages of their labour, and the profits of all their immediate employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the proprietors and cultivators. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They had been organized in guilds, and were mostly their own employers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After he was turned out of the public-house, he probably went with his report to the place where his employers were waiting for him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Still her poor were wretched, still their employers were harassed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The results actually achieved are not the ends of their actions, but only of their employers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Employers do not advertise for workmen who are not interested in what they are doing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is not a common experience among employers in this age. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But if the profits of all the different employers of those working people should be raised five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And his employers, no doubt, sent him back to make sure that the sailor was really settled at the public-house till the next morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To judge whether he is fit to be employed, may surely be trusted to the discretion of the employers, whose interest it so much concerns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Often this keenness for new ideas led him into trouble with his employers; occasionally it was of real service. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The fact is, both girls had their own real affairs to think of: Rebecca her advance with her employers--Amelia her own absorbing topic. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The wages of the workmen, and the profits of their different employers, make up the whole of what is gained upon both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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