Sentences with phrase «over a farm begins»

Suddenly, a book about pigs taking over a farm begins to serve as a cautionary tale on how political dogma can be turned into malleable propaganda.

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In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owFarm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owfarm owner.

When I was 16 the country's economy began to collapse in earnest when the government took over the farms.

In 1982 Roman Stoltzfoos took over the family farm and began applying organic methods.

He began to stockpile draft choices — not give them away, as the Kings had done over the years; he traded for veteran defensemen — Dave Lewis and Jerry Korab in particular — to stop the traffic jam in front of the Kings» goal; he signed scoring champion Marcel Dionne to the biggest contract in NHL history — a six - year, $ 3.6 - million deal; he remedied the Kings» lack of depth by acquiring the services of veteran Center Garry Unger; he gave Berry a bevy of rinkside assistants; he organized a farm club in Houston; and he redesigned L.A.'s uniforms.

Yet over the past 50 years, these ecosystems have begun disappearing as mangroves from Thailand to Jamaica are cleared for shrimp farming, logging and urban development.

Humans first began to cultivate wheat over 10,000 years ago, making it one of the first plants ever to be intentionally farmed.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

This first of three volumes of Lewis» story brings him from boyhood on the farm, where he doted over the chickens and dreamed of being a preacher, through high school to college, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation — to begin with, at the department - store lunch counters of Nashville.

Beginning in 2010, the amount of farm losses you can enter to offset non-farm income is capped at the greater of $ 300,000 or your net farm income over the past five years.

Located just over 30 miles north of Little Rock, Conway began as a small farming community but its economic focus has since shifted to education.

Although clicker training has been used in the horse and farm animal world for over 20 years, people are just beginning to realize its benefits for increasing performance, happiness, and understanding among these animals (especially horses).

The story of Oxbow Animal Health has its humble beginnings over five generations ago on the Miller family farm.

Pioneer Pet / SmartCat began over twenty years ago when Betsy Lipscomb, the founder and president of Cats International, gathered old wooden fence posts from her farm in Wisconsin and gave them to cat owners to use for scratching posts.

He used to live near the towers until he began turning more farming duties over to his son.

By late 2011, new solar farms began supplying clean and renewable power to Thailand, and the entrepreneur and her company have attracted over $ 800 million for their clean energy investments in the country.

Macerl took over his family's farm, but began raising sheep when air pollution made growing crops impossible.

Construction of the Block Island Wind Farm began in the middle of last year and has involved over 300 local workers.

BBC News (2/15/13) reports: «Police have arrested five people in eastern Sicily suspected of involvement in Mafia corruption over contracts to build wind farms, Italian media report... The mayor and a councillor in the small town of Fondachelli Fantina, in Messina province, were among those detained... The five face charges including extortion, fraud and Mafia association... The investigation, which began in 2009, is linked to sub-contracts awarded to build energy farms near Agrigento, Palermo and Trapani.»