Sentence examples for state of ceara from inspiring English sources

Lucileide, an immigrant from Brazil's impoverished north-eastern state of Ceara, ranks among Rio's poorest residents.

Before that, as governor of the north-eastern state of Ceara, he ran a prudent and efficient administration.

Antonio cultivates 40 hectares of arid outback land in the state of Ceara in north-east Brazil.

The group was among the first to benefit from a pilot project to turn poor rural families into profitable farmers, which began in Acarau, a small coastal town in the north-eastern state of Ceara, in 1997.

Using such televised debates to expose Mr da Silva's weak grasp of policy details is probably Mr Serra's best hope.Both must scrap for the votes of two slippery populist candidates, Anthony Garotinho, until recently the governor of Rio de Janeiro, who got 18%, and Ciro Gomes, a former governor of the north-eastern state of Ceara, who got 12%.

But if the economy, and thus the government's popularity, took a serious dive, Mr Franco might win his party over.In this section Squandering an unlikely recovery Middle men Drought in Margaritaville No coups, please Crazed by thirst ReprintsThe strongest soft-left challenger is Ciro Gomes, a former governor of the north-eastern state of Ceara who was also, briefly, Mr Franco's finance minister.

On the north-east coast of Brazil, the state capital of Ceara boasts about 30km (20 miles) of sandy shores.

He has recently been praising Tasso Jereissati, the PSDB governor of Ceara state and a close friend of Mr Cardoso.

That would allow Mr Cardoso to whip up public indignation against pampered pen-pushers, argues Tasso Jereissati, the governor of Ceara state and a close ally of Mr Cardoso.

The latest poll showed Ciro Gomes, a former mayor of Fortaleza and governor of Ceara state from the left-leaning Democratic Labor Party, tied with Haddad at 13%.

She has started to appear on magazine covers, including that of Veja, Brazil's leading news weekly.By contrast, the leading Social Democratic contenders, Jose Serra, the health minister, and Tasso Jereissati, the reformist governor of Ceara, another north-eastern state, barely figure in the polls.