Sentences with phrase «not agrarian»

I am an emotional person and I am not agrarian to show how I feel.

It was definitely not agrarian, but it was often chosen because it provided greater family stability than did the grinding work and unceasing uncertainty of subsistence agriculture.

This is, maybe most of all, a SOUTHERN film — the honorable, violent, classy (sir and mam), men - of - few - well - chosen - poetic - words, chivalrous, gun - toting, fishing, motorized - vehicle - loving, woman - idealizing - and - protecting, family - and - place - oriented, unprosperous, rural (but not agrarian) South.

Not exact matches

Although cloistered, the talent was not lost — thereby squandering 20 years of agrarian labor.

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.»

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.

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

(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.)

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.

Here agrarians join hands with the ecologists who have shown us that interdependence, even if its nature is not fully understood, is the law of life.

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.

When he came to southern Alberta my grandfather brought with him not only his family but also an agrarian disposition and set of values.

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?

It wasn't until we moved to farms, and became an agrarian economy centered on property, that the married couple became the central unit of production.

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.

In April, in Enugu State, herdsmen invaded Ukpabi Nimbo, an agrarian community in the Uzo - Uwani Local Government of the state, and killed not less than 20 persons in one attack.

It was a landscape not unlike agrarian parts of Europe today, except without roads, telephones, or radio.

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.

Despite his early exposure to animals and plants, Dawkins does not attribute his interest in zoology to this agrarian interlude.

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.

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.

You won't see an agrarian society.

Metropolitan ends with three of its characters on a roadside, out of money, thumbing a ride, wiser and happier; it's a film about the wealthy that an agrarian socialist need not object to.

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

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.

[Unless Brexiteers envision the UK transforming itself into some kind of utopian agrarian economy... I wouldn't put it bloody past»em!?]

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.

Polyface considers it a privilege and honor to partner with BSSS and these wonderful artists to express not only the distinctive aesthetics of our rural agrarian landscapes, but also the overall artistic energy in our region.

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.

As for that cover story in Scientific American, my wording that «we have had agrarian economies for millenia with at most only a modest increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere» was chosen carefully to not contradict the hypothesis presented in that article (which is, at any rate, still quite speculative).

[And, it is not surprising that this is the case, given that we have had agrarian economies for millenia with at most only a modest increase in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.]

(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.

Isn't one of the biggest Green fallacies the belief that pre-industrial agrarian societies are usually sustainable, while industrial societies can never be sustainable?

Thenews: Global climate change is posing serious threats to agrarian countries despite the facts that majority of them are not the major contributor in global warming.

The agrarian courts can even overturn leases and nullify contracts if they believe an agreement was not drafted correctly.