Sentence examples for modest farmers from inspiring English sources

In a lot of cases Arslan was conning modest farmers out of huge sums of money".

Foxen's secret was simply a modest farmer's mentality, sound planning and financial discipline.

Thwarted by the modest farmer's tenacity, the businessman rounds up a posse to lay waste to his harvest, and then gathers the thugs again, as hooded "night riders" — the KKK — who arrive to lynch him and steal the land.

By the time we got to New Paltz, N.Y., the sun was halfway down, and Ray Bradley, a modest farmer with a big-city resume, had already been at work 11 hours.

James abandons his future as the leader of his own village to run off with her and start over, to be a modest farmer in "a small village where no one knows us".

His father, James Milne, was a shoemaker and small farmer of modest means who was quiet, mild-mannered, and devout.

In Yuba City, however, people of mostly modest means — farmers, retirees, long-distance commuters to Sacramento and San Francisco — also are padding their balances, said John Cassidy, chief executive at Sierra Central Credit Union.

The son of a modest Texas farmer, Peter wanted a bigger, grander life than his father led, and he worked hard to get it.

Another, in Kenya — a defining experiment that Duflo describes as "very dear to me," and that continues today — sought to understand why small-scale maize farmers were not using fertilizer, despite the likelihood of high returns on a modest investment.

For as long as government suppliers continue to be unpaid and banks undercapitalised, the cash-starved economy has no prospect of moving again.All the measures for 2013, amounting to €9 billion of spending cuts, have been agreed on, including reductions in farmers' modest pensions and a new tonnage tax that patriotic shipowners whose vessels fly the Greek flag have unexpectedly agreed to pay.

But the corporate practice in Cambodia of obtaining tens of thousands of acres from the government as economic development concessions for large sugar plantations, while paying modest compensation to farmers pushed off the land, places a harsh light on international trade pacts that are meant to help the world's poorest countries.