Sentences with phrase «of agrarian»

Kamesh Goyal, CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, said, «Farmers have always been placed at the core of the agrarian economy.

Their motive for doing a green roof: «The architects wanted to retain the openness of this agrarian landscape while providing their clients with privacy and a splendid view of this grand river.»

One is a party of agrarian socialists, and the other a party serving mining capital and finance capital.

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.

Paintings such as Folk Musicians (1942) and The Visitation (1941) are examples of Bearden's depictions of agrarian life, as well as his portrayal of emotional bonds common to all humanity, but particularly informed by an African - American experience.

Absence and presence, material and process, history and site, boundary and transition, and interaction and perspective expand the vocabulary of agrarian art, turning an elegy for the heroic agrarian into an allegory for our times.

Grandma Moses was born in 1860 and she had firsthand experience with all kinds of agrarian practices and rituals like this.

Snippets of agrarian activities are juxtaposed with character moments that explore dynamics between T'Challa and his closest allies.

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.

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

«Rise and fall of agrarian states influenced by climate volatility.»

Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both climate and archaeological records.

«In the case of the peasants, they were left out of the agrarian reform.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

Once societies became agrarian, land ownership became the main source of power and wealth.

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.

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.

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).

However, at our stage of material development, there is no retreating to an agrarian society, and socialism is the only just route out of a class society.

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.

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.»

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.

So I might as well say why I find Robert Penn Warren's account of the «agrarian» critique of modern society to be superior to Wendell Berry's.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The material progress of industrialization would have caused much less psychological suffering if it had been informed by agrarian values.

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.