| As soon as he left the unremunerative world of crime for a steady job with the forces of order, he became significantly more intelligent. |
| It had always been a popular system of out-relief for the unemployed of every other profession, including the notoriously insecure and unremunerative one of politics. |
| Persistence in unremunerative employment may entitle the court to impute income. |
| Earlier emperors had sought to constrain groups of men to perform certain tasks that were deemed vital to the survival of the state but that proved unremunerative or repellent to those forced to assume the burden. |
| Mr Mankell wrote unremunerative novels and plays before turning to a life of crime. |
| Her observation that the traditional art forms face extinction, for lack of adequate support, technological influences and unremunerative returns is true. |
