Sentences with phrase «for agrarian»

Look at how Jefferson argued for an agrarian society, yet governed like a strong Federalist.

Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform.

Most of the women were illiterate and her job entailed helping the women get access to grant money for their agrarian business needs.

The first three socioeconomic revolutions were all based on things — the plow for the agrarian revolution, the motor for the industrial revolution and the computer for the information revolution.

Cardoso also announced that the 1996 budget for agrarian reform would double — from $ 400 000 to $ 800 000 — and that he intended to create a fund to finance further reform by increasing taxes on unproductive land.

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.

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.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

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

Not exact matches

For 44 years, Lehman's Hardware Store, in Kidron, Ohio, has supplied the town's agrarian natives with nonelectric tools of all sorts — gas refrigerators and battery - operated water pumps, for exampFor 44 years, Lehman's Hardware Store, in Kidron, Ohio, has supplied the town's agrarian natives with nonelectric tools of all sorts — gas refrigerators and battery - operated water pumps, for exampfor example.

One of the aims of this colloquium is therefore to establish a more historically grounded basis for tracing the course of commercial and agrarian debt in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, and the logic that underlay the Clean Slates that annulled...

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).

Progressive taxes, self - help programs for the poor, agrarian reform, low - interest loans for home insulation are just a few possibilities.

No government has really succeeded in bringing about real agrarian reform and, for the moment, since the neo-liberal period, the situation of the landless peasant - farmers has become increasingly serious because the large properties are beginning to find a certain legitimacy once more.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

(So that's the more egalitarian — rural but not usually agrarian — America for which Dr. Pat Deneen and others want us, with some very good reasons, to have nostalgia.)

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

When he is given a picture of our redeemed state during his exile on Patmos, he does not see Eden restored in some kind of an agrarian utopia, nor does he see the American ideal of a single - family detached house surrounded by a huge yard for every inhabitant of the Kingdom.

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.

Seems to that this is just the other side of the coin for all you folks that believe that you are superior because you cling to a 5000 year old middle eastern agrarian folk myth.

Agrarians, Front Porchers, traditionalists embracing the «Benedict option,» and so forth today rightly emphasize the cost to our relational lives that we pay for the displacements of high technology, «the screen,» and the various dimensions of globalization.

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 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.

In more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouses.

(36) The memory may be enmeshed in a nostalgic longing for normalcy and «the good old days,» when life was simple and agrarian, settled, and well - ordered.

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.

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.

Most include an historical homage to long established tradition: Look for mention of guilds, agrarian reform, and Aristotle's theory of the polis.

Workers» unions and agrarian cooperatives had called for a national demonstration in opposition to the Free Trade Agreement.

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.

«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 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 was firstly through widespread agrarian agitation via the Irish Land League, that won land reforms for tenants in the form of the Irish Land Acts, and secondly through its attempts to achieve Home Rule, via two unsuccessful bills which would have granted Ireland limited national autonomy.

New York's 22nd Congressional District - best known for Spiedies and chicken riggies - has attracted the attention of deep - pocketed D.C. interests, who are spending $ 7 million in a squabble to control the agrarian piece of Upstate.

Oke - Ogun will be the most affected area for such policy because it is an agrarian area.

This underdeveloped, agrarian region is known for a subsistence lifestyle, high rates of malnutrition and limited access to healthcare, and is representative of many tropical regions where 40 % of the worlds births occur,

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

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.

While Australia's Aborigines developed a low - density, managed - burn culture that lasted 50 millennia on soils too poor for agriculture, North America's richer soils were subjected to a series of boom - and - bust agrarian cultures.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

FarmersOnly is a great niche site for anyone who prefers rural living and agrarian or farming lifestyles.

At a conference in Washington last week, a colleague was surprised to hear that the long summer break dates back to our agrarian society and the need for young folk to help their families bring in the crops.

Boys are, in many ways, better suited than girls for work in the information age but are saddled with an educational model based on an agrarian society.

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

Uruguay is a lovely little country with lots of positive things going for it, it is a very liberal and peaceful society but almost exclusively agrarian.

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).

Back when the U.S. was an agrarian nation, August used to be the best month for the stock market in performance terms.

Famous for its vast expanses of rice fields at the foot of central Bali's Batukaru mountain range, the agrarian village of Jatiluwih in the Tabanan regency is a great destination for those looking for wide - open green sceneries for their ride.

The 31 black - and - white images displayed in the London gallery exhibition of Gardin's work, «The Italians,» are, for the most part, those he made in the midcentury, when Italy hovered between agrarian provincialism and an internationally touted cosmopolitanism.

Many of Nichols» works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.