Sentences with phrase «of subsistence»

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

So they asserted that in the operation of each Person there is an act of the whole Trinity; that the Persons are distinguishable only in respect of their individual modes of subsistence: that the Son is God qua begotten, or God in the mode of filiation; that the Holy Spirit is God qua proceeding, or God in the mode of procession.

Haiti has traditionally had different styles of pet keeping, forms of subsistence agriculture involving animals, and a heavy reliance on horses and donkeys as beasts of burden.

«It's thrilling that the judges chose to give the first Science in Action prize to Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela, whose entry stated that they believe the lives of subsistence farmers «can change for the better through science.»

Reefs provide protection against storm surge and when managed properly, can be an important source of subsistence for millions around the world.

Profit, not biofuel, is the motive for «destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land».

Liberal learning requires leisure; it can not thrive among people who are preoccupied with problems of subsistence.

Rapidly rising temperatures make it difficult for the region's inhabitants to grow cold weather crops and raise and breed yaks, a staple form of subsistence.

Thus men must often leave the district to find work as in this region of subsistence farming and foreign homesteading there is no real source of employment which is capable of supporting large numbers of men with many dependents.

Mostly it was considered a nuisance, as it could get in the way of subsistence agriculture, but it did have its uses.

However, similar options are not necessarily available in hotter, drier countries, such as Chad, where sorghum is a staple food for thousands of subsistence farmers.

For $ 10 more (and if you can find it) the Special Edition of Subsistence includes a third disc with all of Snake Eater's cinematics re-cut and re-edited into a three - hour movie, complete with new narration.

By harvesting and storing rainwater, the family is able to maintain more of a subsistence level of farming than before, when they would have to rely on buying produce because their own harvest failed them during dry months, especially during years with poor rainfall.

At root, however, this perspective is infused by activists» distrust of large corporations and their romanticization of subsistence agriculture rather than fact.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

No, all things are held together in a unity because of their subsistence in the persuasive love of God that is extended to all creation.

Thomas takes his conception of subsistence from Cat.

We will say that particles are orders in the holomovement, which have the character of subsistence, a certain repetitiveness, stability, and so on.

Therefore a human being also has the right to security in cases of sickness, inability to work, widowhood, old age, unemployment, or in any case in which he is deprived of the means of subsistence through no fault of his own... right to respect, right to freedom in searching for truth, right to share in the benefits of culture... the right to choose the state of life which they prefer» 5

Hence they had to create artificial needs for cash — by taxes, for example — or they undercut their means of subsistence by taking their land away from them or destroying their irrigation systems.

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.

Vegetable production intensification will see increased plant pest and disease pressure and significant on - farm losses for the majority of subsistence and small - holder cooperative farmers if the goal to meet WTO / SPS requirements for exports to the ASEAN economic community and international markets is to be met.

A croft is often referred to jovially as a piece of land surrounded by red tape, but it is a system of subsistence land - holding created by the 1886 Crofting Act to give security of tenure to those in the areas where the Highland Clearances had been savage.

Some workers may have their means of subsistence covered outside the market, thanks to some or other mechanism of social provision.

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

Congress noted that Arctic waters host «a rich diversity of wildlife and fish resources and are critical to the survival of the subsistence culture of the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska.»

This represents a period of dramatic innovation in terms of subsistence, cultural and technological practices among the humans of the age.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

Lead author, Dr. Cameron Petrie of the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge notes that «for most ancient complex societies, water was a critical factor, and the availability of water and the way that it was managed and used provide critical insight into human adaptation and the resilience of subsistence practices.»

If the chicken coops of subsistence farmers are hot spots of resistance gene transfer, he speculated that bacteria present in industrial farming operations — where chickens regularly receive antibiotics — would see even more pressure to share resistance genes.

A growing number of subsistence farmers as well as seed growers are now planting «climate - change - ready» rice in the rice bowl state of Uttar Pradesh and the speedy uptake is unprecedented.

Archaeological evidence of subsistence — stone tools and modified bones.

The rest of the planet believes Wakanda to be a backward country of subsistence farmers, but it is the most advanced nation on Earth.

Kojima's newly christened Kojima Productions (Houston I think we have an ego problem...) is heading up development of Subsistence and will ship for the PS2 later this year.