Sentences with phrase «more agrarian»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Since then, Covington has taken over more plots, growing Brussels sprouts, Swiss chard, bok choy and okra, and offering up the tantalizing vision of a great American city's return to agrarian living.

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...

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.)

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).

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.

These two writers seem to be able to speak to our current concerns with technology and democracy with more impact and dare I say relevance than the agrarians.

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.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

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.

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.

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.

Becoming a teacher in Wyoming might mean working in more rural, agrarian regions of the state, but these areas are still in need of quality teachers who find intrinsic reward in helping all of their students receive the education they deserve.

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.

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

(b) agrarian economies are to blame for global warming, because they have deforested the land more than industrialized countries (an unproven assertion, but we'll let it pass) and so the earth is not able to absorb the increased atmospheric carbon that industrialized countries are pumping out.

Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel prize - winner and the grandfather of the Green Revolution has been credited with saving tens millions of people around the world from starvation through his agrarian research which fed more people using fewer acres of farmland.

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

Like the unique lines creasing the palm of your hand, these old boards tell a story, one all the more special because it's a story of peaceful play, of the fruits of agrarian toil, and the longevity of family ties.

who needs nuclear when we can take the Khlima Rouge's road back to a simpler, more bucolic, agrarian society?

So low - quality meat and sweetener, a shoddy alternative car fuel, an agrarian crisis visited upon our neighbor to the south... that's more or less the corn crop.

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