Sentences with phrase «in agrarian economies»

In agrarian economies, children are an economic asset, though when times are hard, having children can always make it harder.

In the agrarian economy cakes were made from scratch, using milk, eggs, flour and sugar (farm commodities).

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The technology elite who are leading this revolution will reassure you that there is nothing to worry about because we will create new jobs just as we did in previous centuries when the economy transitioned from agrarian to industrial to knowledge - based.

We simply do not know what community would look like in a modern city because our deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face relationships of an agrarian economy.

At the same time, like most people in the South, Southern Baptists found it difficult to accommodate themselves to the reality of an agrarian economy without slavery.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

In We Could Not Fail, authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss explore the premise that NASA's activity in the South precipitated and facilitated that region's transition from an economy based on cotton and other agrarian activities to a more technology - driveneconomy that improved employment opportunities for African AmericanIn We Could Not Fail, authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss explore the premise that NASA's activity in the South precipitated and facilitated that region's transition from an economy based on cotton and other agrarian activities to a more technology - driveneconomy that improved employment opportunities for African Americanin the South precipitated and facilitated that region's transition from an economy based on cotton and other agrarian activities to a more technology - driveneconomy that improved employment opportunities for African Americans.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.

As for that cover story in Scientific American, my wording that «we have had agrarian economies for millenia with at most only a modest increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere» was chosen carefully to not contradict the hypothesis presented in that article (which is, at any rate, still quite speculative).

[And, it is not surprising that this is the case, given that we have had agrarian economies for millenia with at most only a modest increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.]

«Pakistan's climate - sensitive agrarian economy now faces larger risks from variability in monsoon rains, floods and extended droughts», says Rasul.

There can be no demographic transition if most people remain in subsistence agrarian economies.

This is a vast over-simplification, but in the transition from an agrarian, to an industrial, to a knowledge and service economy, and now to a data economy, we have seen the emergence of what some top economists call the weightless world.