Sentence examples for modest farming from inspiring English sources

In fact, much of the Sahel normally gets enough rain to allow modest farming.

Cornelius Vanderbilt grew up on Staten Island, the son of a modest farming family.

Mr. Mainella, who is proud of his birthplace, was born into a modest farming family, he said, but his dream as a child was to make knives.

And it is a uniquely Texas story, opening in the Western dust bowl where both emerged — Mr. Perry as a conservative Democratic state lawmaker from a modest farming family and Mr. Bush as a failed Republican Congressional candidate of famous New England stock.

As reporters and photographers arrived in the village, a modest farming center of about 1,300 families, a powerful local landlord and former mayor, Ghulam Mustafa Watoo, gathered people in the town center and gave orders for journalists to be forced to leave.

His wife, Jennifer, manages his modest farm stand.

The bit of country in the city reminded him, she said, of his parents' modest farm.

He said he knew he could never make a decent living on a modest farm.

If same farm near bigger town, farm only average, but no: town so small, modest farm = estate.

These days the bachelors of the hills found it difficult to attract a wife to the modest farms they inherited.

The Army of the Rhine had been disbanded, and Ney had bought a modest farm in Lorraine.