| No matter how desperately governments try to create jobs by fancy make-work schemes, unemployment becomes chronic. |
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| Martins's two short ballets, both to John Adams music, are unabashed make-work. |
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| One is inclined to dismiss all this as product of institutional delusion or bureaucratic make-work. |
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| The figures for the latter, however, did not take into account those who were involved in make-work and re-education programs. |
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| He may be a wash-out as an MLA, but all by himself, he's served as a one-man make-work project for northern lawyers. |
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| We also know that the public service has expanded dramatically, and I suggest that there are a lot of make-work jobs there. |
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| Real training for real tourism jobs, rather than make-work programs for the unemployed or unemployable. |
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| The level on which Jason X does succeed, however, is as an ongoing make-work program for talentless young actors. |
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| It's a great make-work system, but it serves patients and their families very poorly. |
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| Yes, I can't see that there's any call for this sort of make-work activity! |
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| They are a non-productive, consuming society, employed in make-work services, which have no intrinsic value. |
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| The people who were put on make-work schemes were less likely than others to find jobs. |
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| Congress got busy spending money on New Deal legislation, creating make-work programs to try to end the Depression. |
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| As we can all see now, their actual purpose, apparently, is to create three juicy make-work projects for Nunavut's ailing construction industry. |
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| Since then, she has gotten by with make-work schemes and retraining programs. |
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| They are also masters of make-work, bureaucracy, and Kafkaism. |
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| I don't really care much about Dr. Corday's lovelife, and the boxes in the admissions area seemed like a make-work project for the writers as well as the characters. |
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| Orewa at one level has become a make-work scheme for the news media. |
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| I would like to shake the hand of the genius of this make-work brainchild. |
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| Then they give the companies all kinds of make-work in exchange. |
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| Member States will reform financial incentives with a view to make-work attractive and to encourage people to seek, take up and remain in work. |
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| Some municipalities organized make-work projects, known as boondoggling, that tried to link work and relief. |
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| The National Research Council addresses the shortage of science and math teachers in the U.S. with a make-work plan for educrats. |
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| Occasionally he puts in time on a government-funded make-work scheme. |
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| The NREGA scheme creates low-paid make-work jobs. |
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| They create make-work positions, and their staffs become bloated. |
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| I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that. |
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| The report urges governments to step up their efforts to create better jobs for all Canadians rather than limiting their efforts to make-work jobs for welfare recipients. |
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| For an individual, the make-work bias makes some sense. |
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| Other committees add little or no value because they get in the way of the co-op's management or are make-work bodies that feed the participation myth. |
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| They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business. |
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