Sentence examples for ernest from inspiring English sources

Modesto's father Ernest is 53, a tired man yet two years younger than the average farmer in Ghana where the life expectancy stands at 60. Farming in Ghana has soldiered through decades of neglect, still employing 67% of the country's population, but it will not survive being deserted by the young generation.

I also reflected on our family life in Ethel & Ernest.

Raymond Briggs's Ethel & Ernest is being made into an animated film.

Ernest Hemingway told a fan who asked him how to write a novel that the first thing to do was to clean the fridge.

Eighteen months ago, the deputy prime minister, who had once boastfully cast himself in the role of Ernest Bevin to Tony Blair's Clement Attlee, found himself abruptly written out of the plot.

Here in 1922 Ernest Hemingway recorded the flight of Greeks across the Evros during the population swap with Turkey: "twenty miles of carts drawn by cows, bullocks and muddy-flanked water buffalo, with exhausted, staggering men, women and children, blankets over their heads, walking blindly along in the rain beside their worldly goods".

As Ernest-Antoine de Seillière, head of the bosses' organisation, Medef, waspishly commented, "Businessmen will not be getting out their handkerchiefs" over Mrs Aubry's departure.That is probably not the main reason, however, that Mr Jospin feels relaxed.

Now, argues Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of UNICE, the European employers' association, opposition to liberalisation comes mainly from governments and unions, while the impetus for change comes from companies.Europe is experiencing a wave of mergers, the largest since the dotcom boom of 2000.

Since legally the bosses only need the support of one union, Mrs Aubry, in theory, has no choice but to approve the accord.As the Medef president, Ernest-Antoine de Seillière, has mischievously pointed out, "It is the republican tradition of our country that big social accords should be accepted by the government".

As Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of the bosses' association, argues: "The phenomenon of an ageing population must clearly be balanced by an increased flow of births".

Ernest-Antoine de Seillière, Medef's head, is himself under fire as a businessman.