Sentence examples for frontier living from inspiring English sources

Frontier living is frontier living.

The largest state in the union welcomed us with plummeting temperatures, surreal displays of the Northern Lights, and its quirky brand of frontier living.

Their outdoor structures, each says, are spaces for contemplation, meant to provoke thoughts about ideal spaces rather than, say, frontier living.

It was 1981, and the Lower East Side, a beachhead for so many new New Yorkers, was still a place you might find affordable housing with an old-fashioned sense of neighborhood, if you were young and undaunted by the exigencies of urban frontier living.

But while schools throughout the rural Midwest and Mountain States have been consolidating, California has seen a 22percentt growth in the number of one-room schools in the past five years, fueled in part by flexible work schedules and telecommuting policies that allow families to pursue frontier living again.

The doctrinal emphasis on the individual will (in choosing Jesus, in pursuing the moral life), their persecution at the hands of Europe's states and state churches, and the American history of frontier living and rebellion against "big government" in London make for a trinity of anti-government self-reliance.

Like the decent woman that she is, Mary Bee has volunteered for the grim job of caring for three women who have suffered nervous breakdowns through the desolate hardship of their frontier lives, and she must now escort them back East to Ohio, chained up like prisoners in a wagon: a metaphor on wheels for the depression and madness that is all about.

"I'm fascinated with the idea of exploring the frontier of living in public," said Mr. Harris, who credits "Gilligan's Island" and "The Love Boat" with shaping his vision, along with the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.

Instead, Riccarda Torriani, a historian at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, links the country's sense of identity to such things as its system of direct democracy, which enforces popular participation in government; the idea that its citizens are frontier people (living in or near the rugged Alps); and a history of collective courage in defense of freedom, even when outnumbered.

Here's one of the things you can learn tonight from "Scientific American Frontiers": "Mice living an active and interesting life had more neurons than mice sitting around being bored".

Like a settler on the frontier, she lives off the land, hauling water from a turquoise-colored river and washing her clothes in the same bucket she washes her grandchildren.