bread-winning

We should not take a particular version of the family institution, such as the 1950s model of the suit-wearing, bread-winning dad and aproned, homemaking mother, and try to preserve it in aspic.

Nick Clegg mocks Conservatives over '1950s view' of British family 2011

Kasten was the guy behind the guy, teaching the guy and his guys the ropes, which earned him a place at the table with all the other bread-winning guys.

Kast away - Nats president throws it back Box Seats blogger 2010

I clean house and serve as the primary caregiver to our special needs daughter while rarelylynne has the bread-winning career.

Real Men rarelylynne 2010

Think about the typical family and the potential downward spiral triggered by the bread-winning parent getting laid off.

Eric J. Weiner: The Economy Goes Boom While America Goes Bust 2008

I do not see mothers being relieved of bread-winning to concentrate on child-rearing any time soon.

The Ballad of the Working Mother 2007

By what means were these things to be ensured to them if her skill in bread-winning should fail her?

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Life, he himself said once, (his biografiend, in fact, kills him verysoon, if yet not, after) is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our bread-winning lies the cropse of our seedfather, a phrase which the establisher of the world by law might pretinately write across the chestfront of all manorwombanborn.

Finnegans Wake 2006

THIS could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak — the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

This is the least problematic of the three possible interpretations of her statement, yet still problematic when we view humans (or any animal) in an evolutionary pattern: animals' "selfish" acts all contribute to the larger patterns necessary for a successful species: the male's physical desires for certain female attributes (hips, breasts) are distinctly for ideal reproductive purposes, as are the females' desires for strength or bread-winning or whatever.

Character, Clinton, Critics, Change 2004

This is the least problematic of the three possible interpretations of her statement, yet still problematic when we view humans (or any animal) in an evolutionary pattern: animals' "selfish" acts all contribute to the larger patterns necessary for a successful species: the male's physical desires for certain female attributes (hips, breasts) are distinctly for ideal reproductive purposes, as are the females' desires for strength or bread-winning or whatever.

Major World News Headlines 2004