Sentences with phrase «from agrarian»

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.

Our transition from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy took decades and this transition is happening within a much more truncated period.

We have gone from an agrarian lifestyle to one of cities where entire generations grown up thinking that their milk, meat, and produce comes from a grocery store and no comprehension beyond that.

The world has evolved from an agrarian based economy to an industrialized one to a more technology - driven one.

The documentary exposes the underbelly of the food biz, an image and reality far from the agrarian fantasy of farms, revealing how the factories are producing our food and what's being systematically hidden.

But the beauty of today's technology is that India can grow clean — an option the United States didn't have during our time of economic transformation from an agrarian to an industrialized nation.

Just a couple of generations removed from their agrarian roots, the members of this nouveau - riche family find that money doesn't guarantee you mobility and that your personal history shapes and molds your future in unexpected ways.

«Our current model of schools is a legacy of a historical system, which was created to address the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one.

We will move away from the agrarian calendar and recognize the needs of the information age.

Changes to the nature of work from agrarian to factory during the mid-19th century, combined with westward expansion, further encouraged a fragmented system of academies to give way to widespread public schooling.

We are going through change, not unlike the change that occurred during this shift from the agrarian to the industrial age.

«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.»

Celluloid appeared at a time when the country was changing from an agrarian economy to an industrial one.

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 extension of Calvinism to all spheres of human activity was extremely important to a world emerging from an agrarian mediaeval economy into a commercial industrial era.

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.

But those emails came from the agrarian traditionalist types — maybe not exactly Porchers, but close.

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.

China is trying to transform itself from an agrarian backwater into a modern industrial power in the span of a single generation — a feat that took the West a century of ups and downs, harsh lessons and hard - won victories.

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

Not exact matches

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.

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

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 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.»

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.

Concerns in this vein have of course appeared many times in our own nation's history, from Jefferson's idealized republic of yeoman farmers to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries» southern agrarian tradition.

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

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

But this «channeling» assumes radically different shapes in different cultures, ranging from urban to agrarian settings, ancient to modern families, polygamous to monogamous marriages and so forth.

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.

It deviates from the real solution to malnutrition which is to fight poverty, uphold genuine agrarian reform and promote diverse nutritious, natural and easily accessible food sources.

Numerous scenarios depicted in this publication represent the millions of people from all social and economic backgrounds who have adopted this new agrarian ethic on the integrity of food.

He is one of the now numberless dropouts from urban society, part of a new agrarian movement, the «back to the land» bit that seems to be sweeping young writers.

Prof Carlos Peres, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «We analysed satellite imagery of the 1911 agrarian settlements allocated to 568 counties across the entire Brazilian Amazon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Likewise, offbeat choices in the film's look and sound add edge from time to time: In a scene set in a cramped turkey barn, a cacophony of bird noise eerily eclipses the dialogue, suggesting the animal chaos behind the veneer of agrarian Americana.

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.

In an effort to rapidly convert the country from a peasant agrarian society to a modern industrial one, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had pulled millions of people away from farms to build roads, canals, railroads, and steel plants.

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?

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

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.

We find ourselves today within the transition from the industrial age to the information age with the agrarian mode of sustenance faded into the past.

With greater distance from his origins, Rohrer became even more directly concerned with his agrarian roots.

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