Sentence examples for pastoral from inspiring English sources

But while locals that are savvy enough to jump ship can prosper, those wedded to the traditional pastoral life are pushed into deep poverty.

I welcome the pastoral letter by the bishops of the Church of England at many levels.

And that is why Benedict's pastoral letter, for all its expressions of "shame and remorse", is unable to deal with the central issue.

So, for all the breast-beating in the pastoral letter, there is no acknowledgment of Benedict's own culpability.

Just as Stanley Baldwin and John Major conjured an idealised England of pastoral scenes and cricket, from around 2004 Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon began to paint a picture of a leftwing Scotland, an anti-Tory Scotland, an egalitarian and outward-looking nation; an image of how many Scots liked to see themselves, if not a wholly accurate representation of who they actually were.

Swaths of the semi-rural township and pastoral environs have been bulldozed, flattened, rezoned, redeveloped, and covered with "people farms".

The bald summit gives views stretching from the very English Cotswolds to the very Welsh Black Mountains, endless quiet miles of pastoral patchwork between them.

Related: Bishops' pastoral letter was labelled hard-left propaganda.

Yet the wolf depicted in Musei Leveriani looks closer to a collie, docile and pastoral.

It is not, as Pope Benedict rightly argued in yesterday's distressingly bland pastoral letter, about priestly celibacy.

We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise, and for this reason my glossaries began to fill up with "unnatural" language: terms from coastal sea defences (pillbox, bulwark, rock-armour), or soft estate, the Highways Agency term for those natural habitats that have developed along the verges of motorways and trunk roads.