Sentence examples for hoe for from inspiring English sources

Either way, the Murphy filibuster signals that regular order is a tough row to hoe for Republican leaders in a polarizing and electorally tense Senate.

"A credible case can be made for expedition, but it's going to be a long row to hoe for Attorney General Cuccinelli," Turley said.

In early April, he was in a tomato field nearby, brandishing his hoe for $7.50 an hour, clearing out the weeds and the leftover garlic sprouts from last year's crop.

The book says that he regarded his mother as a rival for food and was right to do so; she once beat him with a hoe for eating her lunch.

Figure 9 Classification result through MNF and HOE for HJ-1A hyperspectral data.

4. Axe or "Pulaski": a combination of an axe and a hoe for clearing trees and vegetation. 5. Drip torch: used for lighting smaller fires along a control line to consume the fuel of the main fire.

We developed transmission and reflection HOEs for use at the first three harmonic wavelengths of Nd YAG lasers.

An out-of-plane sensitive electronic speckle pattern interferometer (ESPI) using holographic optical elements (HOEs) for vibration phase mapping is reported.

In 2008, Wu was taking course 2.722J (D-Lab: Design), taught by senior lecturer Amy Smith, when she learned about the plight of 500 million small-scale farmers around the world still using only their hands and hoes for farming.

(Wouldn't it have been better to pack a few more hoes for the voyage, and not so many ear pickers?) Kelso's extraordinary findings are sure to inspire a new generation of tourists, and scholars from around the world, to visit and revisit Jamestown.

In parts of the Brazilian Amazon, where smallholders' farming techniques are still very basic, a local environmental group has helped reduce forest loss in one community by getting farmers to adopt a few simple improvements, such as planting their crops in rows rather than scattering seeds, and using hoes for weeding.