Sentences with word «agrarian»

They are not provisions for our day, but in the setting of agrarian society in the tenth century B.C. they show an admirable sense of justice, moral responsibility, and humane concern for the underprivileged.

The result: wheat crops that are biochemically different from the virgin wheat of agrarian society.

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

A look that has roots in agrarian societies, a crown's symbolism is very much tied to the land and the seasons, and has always had great symbolic meaning.

«This result was a surprise to us,» Donihue said, «and has important management implications as we think about integrating knowledge from agrarian cultures and traditions into modern ranching practice.»

That was well suited to a sparsely - populated, atomised network of small agrarian communities, where there were no professional judges and, until the high medieval period, very few accessible lawyers.

And it's also, broadly, the premise of Stardew Valley, 2016's PC hit portrayal of agrarian life which has finally been ported to Nintendo's Switch, hardware to which the game is joyously well - suited.

The aid for agrarian reform must be available in the form of grants, loans and technical advice.

Dogs were important workers in a largely agrarian culture.

Should industrialization spurt ahead, for instance, religious traditions rooted in agrarian lifestyles are likely to mobilize sentiment against these economic changes.

Veterinary medicine has agrarian roots with the purpose of providing a healthy source of food and transportation to humans.

Describing the country as agrarian, he said it would take a «green revolution to transform Ghana by the implementation of domestication - growing what we eat and...

Companies that come into confrontation with agrarian communities can face worse than just work stoppages — a small number of disgruntled ejidatarios have been known to resort to oil theft from pipelines.

«The biodynamic model is based on an old European agrarian model,» he says.

In Urbanities, a group show at James Fuentes Gallery, black and white gelatin silver prints taken at the painter Dan Colen's farm in upstate New York depict what could be a photograph from the distant agrarian past.

New agrarian reforms have to recognize their vast knowledge and contributions to adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change.

And just last year, Blade Runner 2049 showed us an orange, dust - filled future blighted by ecological devastation, not dissimilar to Interstellar's premise of agrarian crisis.

This is the utopian version, the uncompromising pursuit of a difficult agrarian ideal.

Comparing the climate record with organized agrarian state level societies in Mexico, Kennett and Marwan looked at the rise and falls of three states — Teotihuacán from 100 BCE to 650 CE, Toltec from 900 to 1150 CE and the Aztec Empire from 1400 to 1519.

We need to knock the traditional agrarian calendar on it's ear and look at school options that put needs of students first, such as year - round school, staggered school days with different starting and ending times within one school, and a staggered school year with more instructional days and more frequent, smaller breaks.

A monetary drain was avoided in such cases by royal «restorations of order» (Sumerian amargi, Babylonian andurarum) cancelling agrarian debts when circumstances made them unpayable.

The Hmong, Lisu, Akha and Karen tribes are located in different agrarian areas of Northern Thailand.

It was definitely not agrarian, but it was often chosen because it provided greater family stability than did the grinding work and unceasing uncertainty of subsistence agriculture.

Viewers traveling through the exhibit begin with «The Empty Land,» a series of 15 photographs that depict parched Saudi landscapes devoid of human presence, abandoned public works projects and discarded oil barrels — objects that represent the abandonment of traditional values and agrarian ways of life in the face of modernization.

Following the Civil War, when the southern agrarian economy collapsed and rural African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced to migrate for survival to major population centers — particularly in and around Birmingham, Alabama, where iron and steel production created jobs — a new and more public language of quilts, funerary, and yard arts arose.

«We must push for genuine agrarian reform where farmers will have control over the land, and other necessary resources for food production,» Flores added.

The move towards a more agrarian lifestyle brought about an increase in the number of children a woman would bear in her lifetime, for varying reasons, including earlier weaning and the need for a larger labour force to tend the crops and animals.

Casa Turire is a family - friendly boutique hotel, located in the green Turrialba agrarian region in Costa Rica's central valley that is bathed by the waters of the Reventazón River and famous for its rapids and rafting trips.

In the opening chapter, Gold notes that if schools were following a true agrarian school year, students would be more available during the summer months while crops were growing but unavailable during planting (late spring) and harvesting (early fall).

«Contrary to claims by Brazil's Agrarian Reform Ministry, the timing and spatial distribution of deforestation and fires provides irrefutable chronological and spatially explicit evidence of rapid deforestation by resettled farmers both inside and immediately outside agrarian settlement areas.»

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 Americans.

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Thenews: Global climate change is posing serious threats to agrarian countries despite the facts that majority of them are not the major contributor in global warming.

Solórzano says he's seen many major Canadian mining companies struggle with issues around agrarian law because they didn't hire professionals with expertise in those areas.

We were a primarily agrarian society, but even early general stores were run by families.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

A 2015 population estimate pegged the number of people in the Abura - Asebu - Kwamankese District at 133,452, with a mostly agrarian economy characterised by the cultivation of citrus, oil palm and cocoa as well as a busy fishing industry at Moree.

If the government at all levels will fix the infrastructural gap through the provision of low cost housing, good road network, quality and affordable education and health services, agrarian revolution that will bring down the cost of foods, improved and affordable electricity supply and other essential social amenities, these will help reduce the cost of living and improve the standard of living of Nigerians generally and workers in particular.

Wendell Berry, 75, is a literary luminary in Kentucky, where his poems, essays, and fiction explore his home state's disappearing agrarian heritage.

From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder, through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online, to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources, a return to sustainable farming

What's needed now is the educational equivalent to Paul Polak's work fostering progress in rural agrarian communities in poor places.