Sentence examples for breadwinner by from inspiring English sources

Rostropovich's father died when he was 15, forcing him to become the family breadwinner by teaching cello and making oil lamps for sale.

Under his leadership, PayPal expanded its user base to 104 million active users from 50 million, increased its revenue to $4 billion from $1.8 billion, developed new mobile products and was well positioned to be eBay's biggest breadwinner by 2014.

The Breadwinner By Deborah Ellis (Oxford University Press Children's Books) Kept house-bound by the Taliban's law that women and girls should not leave the house on their own, Parvana, her mother and sisters are in danger of starvation when their father is arrested.

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (ages 10+) Talking points: War and religious extremism.

The husband became the "breadwinner" by going out and working, while the wife stayed home and took care of the family.

Forty percent of moms are their families' sole or primary breadwinner (by the way -they are also most likely their families' sole or primary caregiver too).

Diseases such as AIDS and malaria can cause or worsen hunger, in part by shortening lives of breadwinners and by causing families to fail to pass down farming skills to future generations.

Alternating the pictures with framed panels of folkloric text, Weems distilled complexities of race, class, and gender into the story of a black Everywoman who was defined not just by her relationships — as a lover, mother, breadwinner, friend — but by her comfort with solitude.

Around a third of the population relies on breadwinners paid by the PA, who have gone without most of their salary for the past six months because of the boycott.

Both books describe a cruel, exploitative society where the adults are incapacitated for one reason or another (often illness), and the children are the breadwinners, surviving by their wits and looking out for their younger siblings.

[A]lmost 40percentt of the female breadwinners identified by the survey are married mothers who have a higher income than their husbands.