Sentence examples for enterprising men from inspiring English sources

And I don't know if someone actually owns this stretch of frontage, or if it lies, despised and all but invisible, open to all comers, a freehold for the predations of enterprising men.

"[B]lack men in Africa must do what enterprising men do in all other new lands: they must BEND NATURE TO THEIR WANTS AND WISHES" (253).

We often justify our culture by referring to the ideals of our "forefathers," by which we mean the political, enterprising men who wrote our Constitution.

Luckily, the Internet exists, and it is full of enterprising men and women who want to help you find just the right gift for your girlfriend, fiancee, wife, mistress, paramour or dirty little secret.

Thanks to a few enterprising men there's plenty of it available in the North.

[New York Times] Enterprising men in East New York, Brooklyn, are charging art tourists $20 to peek at a beaver painted on a wall by the street artist Banksy.

An enterprising man delivers ice for $1.50 a bag.

One enterprising man in Rome unearthed a Roman sarcophagus beneath his basement and used it as a wet bar.

The petrol station in the main market no longer operates; an enterprising man with an antique Singer sewing machine has set up shop on the forecourt.

An enterprising man of humble origins, Huse raised a company of soldiers from Barnstead and the neighboring village of Pittsfield, where he studied law with a local attorney during his off hours.

I had been offered purloined Al Qaeda documents in Kabul and Jalalabad, and it didn't seem odd that an enterprising man from a village in eastern Afghanistan had raised the level of entrepreneurship.