He considers that he has been wonderfully successful in building up a business which at the beginning was so small as to admit of his supervising every detail, while today he employs a dozen men to do the work he once did.
If the personality of an employe--be he a personal salesman or a correspondent--is worth anything in a business way, the benefit accrues to the house that employs him.
Calculating men, women, and children, I have heard it said that the cheap house at the West End employs 1000 hands.
Most of the old-type bridge lamps in which a bulb hung from a projected arm have been replaced by a reflector type lamp which employs a diffusing bowl.
The blond treatment employs a transparent rubbed finish which is effective in bringing out the natural pattern of the grain.
It is not the butterfly, but the beetle, which she employs for this duty.
If he does not hold the words "subject and object" with their adjectives, in the same contempt that Mr. Ruskin shows for them, he very rarely employs either of these expressions.
The whole process of demonstration heemploys is this.
The century-plant, which here does not require pampering under glass, but boldly takes its place out doors with the other trees of the garden, employs much less than a hundred years to bring itself to bloom.
It was a very simple device, but perfectly effective, as I think any one will find who employs it in like circumstances; and I would really like to commend it to growing boys troubled as I was then.
But these also become false from the lack of criticism and taste with which he employs them.
In a few instances Ibsen employs these dreamily-nebulous, shadowy expressions with poetic licence, e.
Zola, if he employs it in good faith, does not even suspect the nature of scientific experiment.
At the present time every subdivision of descriptive sociology draws data from rich collections of statistical materials, and employs statistical methods for the further extension of knowledge.
The collection of rubber likewise employs numbers of people.
Christ’s side, and nothing to accuse or plead against a sinner that employs him for his advocate.
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
In the whole earlier and later behavior of the child there is no ground for the first assumption, and the fact that he employs this artifice while in his carriage, immediately after he has been waited on, is directly against it.
So far as we are aware there is no school in all the world thatemploys definite and scientific exercises in the discipline and training of its pupils in power of observation, imagination and memory.
Here Denis employs rime with poor success, and we must agree with Herder when he says: "Denis gelingen nicht Reime!
In this way statecraft becomes a tool of Providence, which employs the human will to attain its ends.
This river employs itself continually in writing the letter S upon the surface of the earth.
Although he employs a head-shepherd, and even a bailiff, he finds it necessary, if he would succeed in making a profit, to be pretty well ubiquitous.
That the Book of Jonah employs mythical elements is an opinion that has prevailed since the beginning of this century.
But he employs them as witnesses, not as dogmas; he finds in them not authority, but experience.
But in the work of redemption through Jesus Christ his Son, he places his people in a peculiar position, and employs them in a special mission.
It is this tireless movement of the sun, this daily progress of the king of day, patrolling as with a giant's tread the ramparts of the skies, that the text employs to illustrate the course of God's people in the world.
He had had the advantage of a magnificent orchestra while in service at Prince Esterhazy's, and the results are seen in the orchestral resources which he employs in his oratorios.
Then follow eight more bars of recitative for tenor, and the long series of descriptive choruses begins, in which Handel employs the imitative power of music in the boldest manner.
The final number is the "Agnus Dei," a chorus for male voices, in which the composer once more employs the peculiar combination of flutes and tenor trombones.
The fishery employs from forty-five to fifty vessels of from seventy to ninety tons' burden, from the island of Teneriffe alone; the fish are taken on the coast of Africa, and salted here.
Suppose that Scotland employs a capital of a thousand pounds in making linen, which she exchanges for the produce of a similar capital employed in making silks in England.
A manufacturer of hats employs a hundred men at an annual expense of 50l.
They can be wrought advantageously by nobody but the landlord, who being himself the undertaker of the work, gets the ordinary profit of the capital which he employs in it.
A farmer, a manufacturer, or a merchant, employs a certain number of workmen, who all have occasion to consume a certain quantity of corn.
The general industry of the country being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished, but only left to find out the way in which it can be employed with the greatest advantage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "employs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
