The rich volcanic soil combines with a generous rainfall and cool, brisk climate to offer the Amhara a stable agricultural and pastoral existence.

The people were prosperous and contented, leading a pastoral existence under the benign but absolute matriarchy of Mabousa.

Securely pitched but grainy and astringent, their blend evokes a rugged pastoral existence lived on hard terrain.

They were entirely self-sufficient, living a pastoral existence that had changed little for centuries.

"I don't think your visions of a pastoral existence are likely, Mr. Ragsdale," Spock said dryly.

Ignatz visits a virtual masseuse, where he dreams of a pastoral existence with Primavera.

The move to a pastoral existence came during Neolithic times (7000-3000 BC).

Peaceful dictatorship and pastoral existence.

Well," he said, "I suppose it's that or leadin' a pastoral existence, livin' aff the fruits an' berries of the forest.

To buy timber, they will have to trade; to trade, they may have to abandon their self-sufficient, nomadic pastoral existence.