Minimum wage scales and protectionof working women would make the condition of their lives better, so that they would not be forced into the streets and brothels to make their livings.
Burke, without the protection of a raincoat, walked back and forth in the small compass of space allowed the peg-post watcher, beating his arms together to warm himself against the sickening chill of his dripping clothes.
Some tribes of the Africans, however, when they have engaged themselves in the protection of a stranger, are remarkable for fidelity.
He however assailed me by my weak side: the delight I always experienced in acts of protection and benevolence--the pleasure I felt in being regarded by others as their good genius--this was a flattery that never ceased to sway me!
In the Treaty of Peace, Lower California was not alluded to, nor evenprotection of the Peninsula glanced at.
The whaling interests of the United States have now attained so vast a magnitude, that it is high time our government should take measures exclusively for their protection in these seas.
It is a capital garment for either the road or the saddle, leaving free play to the arms, and at the same time a protectionfrom dust or rain.
They afterwards became consecrated religious and within what to-day is his parish he built them cells and monasteries which the holy virgins placed under his protection and jurisdiction.
The community system alone afforded the necessary mutual encouragement and protection to the missionaries.
He shoved Mannheim up the steps ahead of him, ducked into the protection of the Sikorsky's open door, and then turned back.
Over the years "Gigene" had carried out, among other things, VIP protection in high-threat situations and general antiterrorist ops.
The only possibleprotection was a low cinderblock structure on the side nearest the facility.
The only protection to be found, singular as it may be thought, is in a couple of bottles of the oldest Jamaica rum in the British isles.
To this I readily agreed, knowing that, with the protection of men in office, I might show myself in my own country with perfect safety.
Everywhere I see the sifting of competition, and nowhere Christian protection of weakness; everywhere dogma adored, and nowhere Christ realised.
He said something in his clear, gentle, but cold voice, and, taking both my hands, led me affectionately to a chair near his own.
Promise her that our first daughter shall be called Maria, for that I'm willing to promise, too.
You need not shrink, for you will be under the protection of the English Government.
Only this, sir, that your so-called American citizen will have no protection from a great country for such a nefarious transaction.
When Burghers require the protection of firearms, such will be allowed to them by licence, and on due registration, provided they take the oath of allegiance.
Pursuing this theory it seems likely that the solanin of the potato is its natural protection against the disease caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans.
It is a pity that these old smock-frocks are no longer in vogue: I never see one now; they were most picturesque, and afforded great protection from the rough weather which a shepherd has constantly to face.
An old yeoman family, having decided upon the Church as the vocation for one of the sons, sent him, in the year 1818, on an old pony, under the protection of an ancient retainer for his matriculation examination.
Thereon Paul, without waiting for my reply, knelt down in the bottom of the boat and lifted up his voice in prayer to our merciful Father in heaven, for that protection which we more than ever felt we so much needed.
She married Count Guido Franceschini, who treated her so brutally that she made her escape under the protection of a young priest named Caponsacchi.
Among the gentry who had letters ofprotection to attend Richard II.
The count now treated Pompilia so brutally that she ran away from home, under the protection of Caponsacchi, a young priest, and being arrested at Rome, a legal separation took place.
The justice and protection which a king owes to his subjects is a strict and rigorous duty; while that which he may offer to other states is never other than conventional.
They will, however, never hinder me from serving you so long as I am certain of the protection of Your Majesty.
Other causes of grievance, especially in regard to the protection granted to American vessels in all French ports, were constantly coming up.
I have confidently assured his uncle that he will receiveprotection and paternal advice from you, and am happy in knowing that you will fulfill my engagements on that score.
It is to your wisdom that I present these serious matters, and I dare say that there are none more worthy of the attention and protection of an enlightened minister such as you.
After revolving in his mind all these obstacles, he formed the resolution of boarding and capturing two British brigs-of-war, called the Detroit and Caledonia, lying under the protection of the batteries of Fort Erie.
After being employed for some length of time on the Orleans station, he was appointed to the command of the brig Argus, stationed for the protection of our commerce on the southern maritime frontier.
Her safe retreat diffused universal joy among the inhabitants of that city, to whose protection she afterwards greatly contributed.
Such is the brief outline of the life of this gallant officer, one of Pennsylvania’s cherished sons, who has contributed his services and his counsels for half a century, for the protection of our commerce and for the glory of the navy.
Macdonough replied that the man was an American seaman, and was under the protectionof the flag of the United States, and that it was his duty to protect him.
But the protectionof our own ports is not by any means the chief work of fleets.
Thus it happened that Matagorô lost his patron; so, taking his mother with him, he went and placed himself under the protection of an old man named Sakurai Jiuzayémon.
I must leave my very life behind me; I must renounce my care and protection of Benedicta.
The sound came from behind me, and the name was uttered with so caressing sweetness that I hastened to cross myself as a protection from the wiles of the fairies with their spells and enchantments.
I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from less honorable motives, clamors for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit.
From time to time the Factory Laws were extended to cover the special demands of other industries, until the state had literally taken under its protection the whole class of children and young persons employed in manufacturing industries.
On a bill for the protection of life in Ireland Peel was defeated by seventy-three votes.
There has been no retreat from the positions to which Lord Ashley carried the legislative protection of the working-classes.
It was the failure of the potato crop of 1845, and the consequent Irish famine which forced Peel to abandon the last stronghold of protection and recommend the total and absolute repeal forever of all duties on all articles of subsistence.
To the opinions which I have expressed in this House in favor ofprotection I adhere.
Trot was so sure of the protection of the fairy mermaids that she would not allow herself to become frightened.
You will need no otherprotection than that, yet Princess Clia and I will both be with you.
He then went to the leading city officials, secured from them a promise of succor for the stricken people and protection against further attack.
This precaution was to prevent escape in case of any sortie; as, also, to give protection to the new Military work against the continual injury from the waves.
