Sentence examples for survey life from inspiring English sources

Her delicate songs survey life as a mother, sister, wife and woman, gently picking apart the habitual way of viewing those roles.

Other team members combed the intertidal zone of the islands to survey life in rock pools and living on the shore.

"It helped explain his caution, his tendency to hold back and survey life like a chessboard, looking for where he might get checkmated," Maraniss wrote in "Barack Obama: The Story," adding that it also made Obama seek to transcend confrontation.

We also consider the benefits of a "dynamic strategy", i.e., the approach to change features of survey contacts over the survey life cycle.

One is the 1996 survey, Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China, and the other is the 2006 survey, Chinese General Social Survey.5 Both datasets are nationally representative and use similar multistage probability sampling procedures.

Furthermore, changing the wording of reminders over the survey life cycle increases the odds of a response by over 30%, while changes in contact timing (day of the week or hour of the day) did not have significant benefits.

Montaigne has a reputation as a sceptical and slightly otherworldly observer of human affairs, surveying life from the isolation of his ivy-covered tower.

"Right now, the sediment is the story," said Jeffrey Duda, a research ecologist with the federal Geological Survey, a scientific research organization that led a joint team of divers last week surveying life on the seafloor near the river's mouth.

One can imagine the young Donald surveying life at a comfortable distance, watching tradesmen come and go, cocooned in warmth and safety, with the knowledge that whatever anti-social forces might be gathering beyond the gatehouse would be safely intercepted.

Treuer, an Ojibwe novelist, surveys life on American reservations — the result is a penetrating amalgam of history, memoir and polemic that addresses treaty rights, local justice systems, the casino business, cultural traditions and family tragedy.

Just as Jonathan Franzen's landmark novel, The Corrections, appeared to catch the soul of one period of recent American history – the Clinton years and their attendant economic boom – so did its follow-up, Freedom, which was published in 2010 and surveyed life in the Bush era.