Sentence examples for failed farmer from inspiring English sources

Around 1915, A.C. Townley, a charismatic former Socialist and failed farmer, emerged from the state's western grasslands to establish the Nonpartisan League, America's last great agrarian insurgency.

Still, we had one hero, George Washington, a failed farmer, who though he came from Virginia could have been born in the Bronx.

Thirty-nine years old, flawed, an indifferent West Point student, disgraced as an army officer, gossiped about as an alcoholic, a failed farmer and a failed businessman, Ulysses Grant had come to his command almost as a fluke.

"He's a farmer," he said, "a failed farmer, and he's a family man.

The bank failed, farmers lost or sold their land, stores shut down, and people drifted away.

It also was a chance to employ local people, especially failed farmers forced into bankruptcy court by a severe drop in the crop prices.

She said: "The cull fails animal welfare by subjecting supposedly protected animals to inhumane shooting; it fails farmers by promising a solution to TB that scientists agree cannot be delivered by killing badgers; and it fails the public by wasting valuable funds that could be far better deployed on nationwide badger vaccination, improved farm biosecurity and stricter cattle movement measures".

Mr. Mills starts with Shelby's early childhood and runs right through his time as an Army Air Forces instructor and failed chicken farmer — done in by a sleazy feed supplier.

It stars Ian Holm as a failed pineapple farmer in the South Pacific at the start of World War II who is persuaded by the British governor to take a post as the official British resident of an obscure island.

After a series of failed monsoons, farmers were suffering.

The Senate originally included the F.D.A. proposal as part of a multibillion-dollar bargain to buy out failed tobacco farmers -- a boon to corporate agriculture and passive investors.