Sentences with phrase «in agrarian»

By maintaining an ongoing dialogue with his roots in the agrarian south, Binion's paintings are largely symbolic, achieving a spiritual resonance that defies the typically reductive materialism associated with East Coast minimalism.

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

Both Van Gogh and Still were interested in agrarian life (farming and animals).

In addition to the Main Campus (Ponta Delgada), which provides a concentration of various disciplines, the other two campuses provided specialized training in agrarian sciences and oceangraphy;

Veterinary medicine, however, is steeped in the Agrarian world view rendering certain values and ideals that while successful in the agrarian model are not efficient in today's information driven society.

Forty minutes outside the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex is the city of Cleburne, a previously agricultural area that still takes pride in its agrarian past.

He feels content to live in the agrarian Shire, but after much prodding, Gandalf the wizard (Ian McKellen) convinces Bilbo to leave home and go on an adventure.

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

Birds worldwide also cause damage running into billions in the agrarian sector, the waste disposal sector, harbours, and the oil and gas industry.

I'm quite a bit spoiled having grown up in New England, and in an agrarian farm town at that.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

In an agrarian culture that meant serving a fertility god.

Acknowledging the perception that children used to be an asset in agrarian societies, Caplan looks at the data to show that even in traditional societies, «kids don't pay.»

Not exact matches

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.

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 example.

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.

The common thread is that Australia's farmers think they can control the marketplace, just like the good old days when collectivism and agrarian socialism were popular theories — like back in the 1930s.

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.

The debts that were forgiven were personal debts, agrarian debts, and the idea was to liberate the bond - servants so that they could be available to perform the corvée labor, which was the main kind of taxation in the Bronze Age, and serve in the army.

Critics point to few new jobs created, a widespread agrarian crisis, slow progress on the planned $ 1 trillion investment in large infrastructure projects, and little headway on tax reform.

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).

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.

In the last 50 years or so, Wendell Berry's name has become almost synonymous with a sort of simple, agrarian lifestyle.

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.

The agrarian ideal of Jefferson and others in the early republic — the ideal of a nation of frugal independent husbandmen ready to serve at their community's call — owes much to this notion of republican virtue.

It is a test of whether republican liberty established in a remote agrarian backwater of the world in the 18th century shall prove able or willing to confront successfully the age of mass society and international revolution.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Unlike the Marxists, who tell that us in the interstices of each and every item or moment of day to day life one can find the most horrible of oppression and exploitation, the irrelevant agrarians can remind us of moments of nobility and joy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.