Sentence examples for son of the soil from inspiring English sources

A son of the soil," his wife Ivy Gathambo explained.

Stoner is a son of the soil – patient, earnest and enduring – who moves unprepared into the city and the world.

Truman, like LaGuardia, Koch and Giuliani, enjoyed the unimpeachable authenticity of a humbly born son of the soil.

He is part Egyptian [fellaheen,] or son of the soil, an intellectual aristocrat born into a poor farming family.

In Varanasi Congress's bald-headed candidate, Ajai Rai, sits among supporters and calls himself "a son of the soil".

The spirit of 2008 was shining in Kenya as the country embraced its "son of the soil" on his first visit since reaching the White House.

David Archer, simple son-of-the-soil that he is, has brought them a load of useful manure.

But, given the sanctity ascribed to the human voice, it's unsurprising that self-consciously son-of-the-soil country types such as Garth Brooks have been particular ­enemies of Auto-Tune.

In India, northern migrants to coastal, cosmopolitan Mumbai are beaten by armed cadres of a sons-of-the-soil political movement.

The word means "sons of the soil".

But are enough of the sons of the soil ready to make the change?