Sentences with phrase «as agrarian»

From it's origins as an agrarian state, wealth land owners needed physical laborers to clear land, cultivate the ground and bring forth a profit.

I aspire to develop my practice as an agrarian nurse — drawing from the lessons of farming and community health to offer nurse coaching services.

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...

A good place to start is by understanding, as Crossan does, Jesus» world as an agrarian or peasant society in contrast to our modem industrial society.

Not exact matches

In March of this year he launched Stocksy as a co-op on an agrarian model, one that pays contributors 50 % off the bat and then pays dividends at the end of the year, divesting 90 % of its profits.

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.

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.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

In addition, there are words and phrases that do not easily translate from one language to another, such as idiomatic expressions, word usages from ancient agrarian societies and so on.

He is as blind as Marx to its distinctive differences from rival systems (ancient, medieval, traditional, fascist, socialist, Euro - socialist, and third - world agrarian).

So I might as well say why I find Robert Penn Warren's account of the «agrarian» critique of modern society to be superior to Wendell Berry's.

Jesus» ministry, though, began as a renewal movement within Judaism, 61 went beyond theological issues, «addressing problems endemic to agrarian, indeed all class, societies.

As Theissen has observed,»... all the parables in Mark come from the agrarian world and deal with sowing and reaping, harvests, and vineyards, we find ourselves in a deeply rural milieu.

Philosophically, liberation theologies are sometimes portrayed as more or less naive popular movements drawing upon now outdated 19th century notions of divergent vintages: Marxist (Third World), social gospel (First World), suffragette (Feminist), black nationalism (Black), agrarian pastoralism (Environmentalist), or romantic pacifism (Nuclear Pacifist).

I think the primary difference between Coots as being representative of Christians and Pol Pot representing atheists is that Coots, like many Christians, claimed to believe in a specific creed whereas there is no atheist creed, Pol Pot pushed a radical form of agrarian socialism on his people.

In agrarian societies, bad weather or invaders could quickly ruin your harvest, and so many would quickly store and save the first portion of the harvest, and then later, as the harvest became more bountiful, give of the bounty to whatever deity they worshiped.

So comparatively to Wolfe and Percy, the agrarians appear as a relic and perhaps (at least in some cases) too one - sided in their «phenomenological» descriptions of the way that the problems and the possibilities for human goodness if not greatness appear today.

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.

The agrarian program urges us to learn from and live within the limits of creation, to take nature as our guide.

The author argues for what he calls «the agrarian point of view» as regards the creation: It means taking seriously the Biblical mandate to care for the creation.

Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.

Communication by writing was never as developed in the Jewish milieu as it was in the more agrarian less nomadic Indo - Himalayan and Chinese civilisations, until at least about the time we find the Wisdom literature, the time that is of the full penetration into the near East of the Romano - Hellenic culture of the West.

American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.

Chaney's following description is very apt: «Solomon's attempts to finish the transformation of Israel into a typical agrarian nation - state, complete with his erection of the Temple as a royal chapel to house Yawehism as a state established and state - legitimizing religion, were minus that flow of booty.

His Son didn't just come to talk about sheep and goats, although in that agrarian / pastoral area, that WOULD make sense to use parables and comparisons to things that the people would KNOW as opposed to things they've never heard of, don't you think?

Living in an agrarian society, most Israelites worked from sun - up to sun - down, six days a week, taking only the Sabbath (Saturday) off as a day of rest.

In agrarian Sweden, young people used to dress up as Lucia figures (lussegubbar) that night and wander from house to house singing songs and scrounging for food and schnapps.

«The GM Golden Rice program is ill - suited as Philippine society is primarily agrarian where the majority of the farmers are landless, thus, they need is a genuine land reform program or free distribution of land, that will fundamentally secure their food and nutrition needs,» said Vizconde.

In 1948 Mao initiated the «destruction» of 60 - 70 million Chinese peasants to make way for agrarian reform and as part of the Great Leap.

He incorporates this notion into many of his programme recommendations, such as the establishment of citizens» task forces in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan to hold local governments accountable for agrarian reform.

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.

The three day duration of the crusade has always turned out to be very rewarding for the residents of the community and its environ as it provides them an opportunity to mingle, hobnob and exchange pleasantries with quality foreign and local visitors attracted to the sleepy agrarian community.

«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.»

Widely hailed as a socially responsible and «innocuous» strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale.

«It represents a kind of apocalyptic divine intervention upon Thomas Jefferson's vision of a pastoral, agrarian America built on the rationality of the grid,» Light says, «as if the hand of God was a very displeased claw.»

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Wild foods like herbs and greens as well as nuts, berries, and root crops, legacies of the national agrarian roots, remain popular parts of every Dane's diet and have been especially enthusiastically embraced by many restaurateurs as a way to keep food more local, sustainable, and unprocessed.

That's as little as one - tenth of the intake among the world's dwindling hunter - gatherer and rural agrarian populations, whose living conditions and dietary intake presumably most closely resemble those of our common human ancestors, said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of a study published Jan. 13 in Nature.

Think of all the times reformers have mocked «the factory model» of schooling, voiced exasperation that classrooms look the same today as they did one hundred years ago, and lamented that the school calendar still reflects an agrarian economy.

On the most basic level, we should be asking: Why are students attending school from September to June as they did when we were an agrarian economy?

As is the case in many agrarian cultures around the world, formal education is greatly underappreciated.

The latest version of the Isuzu Trooper is starting to look like a bonafide contender to such sport - utility heavyweights as the Land Rover Discovery, Ford Explorer, Chevy Blazer and Jeep Grand Cherokee.For 1995, Isuzu has sharpened the focus of the four - door Trooper, which comes with an all - new interior and in three models - S, LS and Limited.The four - wheel drive Trooper is now a classy, upscale vehicle, an entirely different animal than the boxy, agrarian first - generation Trooper.All 1995 models are powered by an exceptionally smooth - running 3.2 - liter 24 - valve V - 6 engine and are equipped with dual air bags.

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).

As humans began the switch from hunter / gatherers to agrarian societies they also included the domestication of wild wolves to assist them in many ways.

Added feature includes witnessing various cultural highlights, such as local rice farmers tending their fields, visits to an authentic Balinese home where you can learn more about the agrarian ways of life, such as coconut oil processing, to making Balinese flower tray offerings and a variety of woven coconut leaf crafts.

Various archival Still photographs of farm machinery and other agrarian themes, which also became prominent subjects in his 1930s paintings, are featured as well.

«The Oroqen's history is reflective of the vast changes that have happened across China over the last few decades, as the country has moved from a largely agrarian nation to an industrial powerhouse drawing in numerous ethnic groupings to present an image of a diverse and harmonious society.

Lien Truong blends American and Asian imagery and technique to examine the cultural and political conditions embodied in America's founding and ongoing agrarian philosophy, and how this symbolizes the values of Manifest Destiny and the creation of America as a State formed by colonization, diverse immigrant groups and slaves.

Paintings such as Folk Musicians (1942) and The Visitation (1941) are examples of Bearden's depictions of agrarian life, as well as his portrayal of emotional bonds common to all humanity, but particularly informed by an African - American experience.