Sentence examples for plantation manager from inspiring English sources

Winning the favour of the plantation manager, he became a livestock handler, healer, coachman, and finally steward.

Gwen (Lucille Patton) begins to talk animatedly about growing up as the daughter of a plantation manager in Jamaica.

A beautiful best friend, slaves, a sexy plantation manager and plenty of illicit love-making with both sexes end up figuring prominently in the tale as they all struggle to tame the land.

I'm wondering, given what we learned in the other programme, whether Mr Jones the plantation manager here imports his plucking labour from outside the county – Devon perhaps, or Sri Lanka.

"It is almost forgotten history," said Sasidaran Sellappah, a retired plantation manager in Malaysia whose father was among 120 Tamil workers from a rubber estate forced to work on the railway.

His 2002 novel The Polished Hoe, written as the murder confession of Mary-Mathilda, a West Indian former servant and lover of a plantation manager, won the 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the 2003 Trillium Book Award.

Can practices to increase biodiversity be integrated with traditional management to produce a net benefit for plantation managers and the environment alike?

Adaptive forest management is regarded as an important tool for plantation managers and the industry has responded in Australia through the development of capacity building tools such as a plantation forest industry climate change adaptation handbook (Stephens et al. 2012).

Plantation managers told the beneficiaries it was an advance on their dividends.

But the plantation managers would not allow him on the grounds, he said, arguing that it was private property.

Soldiers with machetes were walking down rows of tall, slender rubber trees and felling them at waist height, while engineers placed explosives around the brick buildings of the plantation managers.