Sentence examples for modest countryside from inspiring English sources

At 6-foot 9, and 190kg, he's a Norse God of a man, albeit one whose temperament fits with his modest countryside upbringing.

At 6-foot 9 and 418 pounds, he's a Norse God of a man, albeit one whose temperament fits with his modest countryside upbringing.

In 1826, Wilberforce moved from his large house in Kensington Gore to Highwood Hill, a more modest property in the countryside of Mill Hill, north of London, where he was soon joined by his son William and family.

Across the hardscrabble Iraqi countryside, dozens of modest construction initiatives, many so tiny and inexpensive that they could be called microprojects, are generating at least a taste of the good will that Congress envisioned when it approved billions of dollars for grandiose rebuilding plans that have mostly been delayed.

Some people have long stuck relatively modest turbines on towers in the countryside.

In this mode, 'consumption of the countryside' by residents with modest incomes will be most influential in shaping rural socioeconomic futures, but with desultory production and protection activity together with reduced inputs into property management shaping rural landscapes.

Widespread corruption undermines economic growth; government officials with modest salaries can be seen touring the countryside in expensive European automobiles.

Recruiting urban students and teachers (as well as camp residents) to teach literacy in the countryside would also represent a modest step towards decentralization.

Padura lives in Mantilla, where Havana bleeds into the countryside in a welter of auto-body shops, small farms, and modest roadside homes.

On the other side of the world, in the tranquil emerald countryside just 10 miles south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, a modest Buddhist stupa with double-gilded eaves houses over 5,000 skulls, an infinitesimal fraction of the 1.7 million Cambodians tortured, starved or slave-labored to death by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge henchmen during their horrific years in power from 1975 to 1979.

— living on a half-ruined estate in the Russian countryside, with only tenuous family connections, an interest in the estate's modest revenue, and passions that felt less than passionate to bind them together?