Sentence examples for primitive village from inspiring English sources

The mir and the artel (a primitive village productive cooperative), the Narodniki asserted, would then naturally evolve a system of production and distribution beneficial to the community.

The "Apu" trilogy provided a microcosm of the changing society of modern India by progressing from a tightly knit family in a primitive village through migration to the cities and ending with the educated protagonist nearly isolated.

2. Pange and Matini, two women of the Kalanga tribe, lived all their lives in an isolated area of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and had never interacted in any significant way with people outside their primitive village.

Mr. Dassin directed, and often wrote and produced, most of Miss Mercouri's nearly 20 other movies, including "He Who Must Die" (1957), about life overtaking a Passion play in a primitive village on Crete; Mr. Dassin co-adapted the story from the novel "The Greek Passion," by Nikos Kazantzakis.

For Kabulis, who once prided themselves on being residents of the only city in Afghanistan with any claim to the cosmopolitan qualities of the great cities in other nations, the primitive village culture of the Taliban was the last turn in a cycle of degradation.

So what inspired him to live, for his training assignment in Mozambique, in a tent outside a primitive village whose inhabitants said they hadn't seen a white man, or a car, since 1972, and to spend his waking hours scouring a deadly 12-mile stretch of road for hidden explosives, sometimes dodging bullets as he went?

On the other hand, people who made their living at the edge of the ocean faced seas that were rising about 3 feet each century and which often drowned them when high tides and storms washed over their primitive villages.

He has recently granted oil exploration concessions to two groups on favourable terms and this income will more than compensate him for the loss of revenue from the British base, when it disappears.Oil concessions have also brightened the outlook for the next two small states along the Gulf coast, Ajman and Umm al-Qaiwain, both little more than primitive villages.

Vollers quoted Delia as saying, "Imagine us walking into these primitive villages where the children are hungry, and saying: 'If you stop shooting wild animals, tourists from America will come, and you'll have jobs and food.' We thought they'd look at us like we were crazy.

Mohammad: My wife and I were poor working people from a primitive little village in Pakistan, where school took place under the shade of a tree.

ADVENTURE about the reaction of two Dominican natives in their primitive fishing village to a catalogue which contained a rowing machine.