Sentence examples for work on a collective from inspiring English sources

Liu grew up in rural Sichuan, and, like most young people during the Cultural Revolution, was sent to work on a collective farm as soon as he finished high school.

Wang, then only 14, got caught up in the fervor, publicly criticized her father and volunteered to be shipped to northeast China to work on a collective farm.

Everyone then worked on a collective memorization task with an assumed partner.

But his bigger project is working on a collective buying program with three other large food pantries in New York.

One was the Temple Wilton Farm, in New Hampshire, where a German who had worked on a collective farm, Trauger Groh, moved to town and teamed up with two other farmers.

He was eighteen, and he lived in a rural village and worked on a collective farm at a time when "the countryside was subjected to a kind of paramilitary management".

Mr. Yang first encountered stories of Jiabiangou's horrors as a self-described idealistic youth working on a collective farm in the 1960s, and though he was unbelieving at first, they stuck with him.

In Communist times, he worked on a collective farm on the northern side of the Talass Alatoo range, a row of saw-tooth peaks and commanding vistas that is one of the more knee-buckling sights in a staggeringly beautiful land.

"Peasants" might be the more correct term for the latter, since a person working on a collective farm has to surrender their harvest to the state, and only under Kim Jong-un have they been given the right to keep part of their harvests.

Fresh from the Chechen conflict, Sasha in "Our American" plans to save his younger brother from conscription by marrying Amy, the cute girl from Ohio who works on a collective farm; the three of them, he thinks, will simply move to America.

There are things that I loved that didn't end up in the final cut, but that's inevitable when you're working on a collective project.