Okello did not have the necessary capital to rent a home in Kibera, or to apply for a menial job there.
TaskRabbit nabbed the first-in-line spot to try to promote its online service that allows people to pay someone else to do a menial task for them.
It's not a menial task and I think it's awful that we weren't put in that position where we could have been earning the same as a man collecting rubbish.
The daughter of rubber tappers in the Amazon, she learned to read as a teenager and did some of the menial jobs that many Brazilians labour in before becoming a star of the international environmental movement.
As a kid, he did menial jobs around the newspaper office, like sweeping the floor.
As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.
Always have a positive attitude about the work, however menial it may seem.
Agent John Dodson, after nearly a year of harassment, including being given menial assignments and being barred from areas of the ATF building in Phoenix, is in the process of trying to sell his home in Arizona so he can transfer to South Carolina.
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But it also points to a wider tendency in Brazil of employing people in menial jobs that, in more developed countries, do not even exist.
The average menial laborer today enjoys more material abundance than a prince or tribal chieftain of recent past.
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Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work.
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If educated Sri Lankans were allowed to work in India, they could get good jobs there instead of having to take menial work in the Gulf, thus easing a growing shortage of skilled Indian workers.
"Never, ever wrap your hand for any reason in the line, " Burkholder said to the volunteers who were eager to do the menial labour of science in exchange for getting a closer look at the creatures they were hoping to save.
He moved to the West in 1957, worked in menial jobs and saved up enough money to open a shop in Stuttgart.
Many now welcome the relatively menial jobs they once would have deemed too lowly for a Saudi citizen, as hotel receptionists, for instance, or supermarket cashiers.
In it Sir Ben plays former Iranian colonel Behrani who flees to the US but finds he cannot provide such a palatial life for his family, and is forced to take menial jobs to make ends meet.
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