Sentences with phrase «pass as a crop»

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Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

«But as soon as the crop is ripe, he plies the sickle, because harvest time has come,» and if he lets the moment pass, the crop is lost.

To pass, as the Hebrews did, from nomadic wanderings to a settled residence, from the exclusive tending of herds to the culture of crops, from tents to villages and walled towns, involved a profound change in the life and thought of the people, and, not least of all, in their religion.

Growing up, we spent a couple of weeks every summer on the California's Central Coast, and as we'd pull off the Pacheco Pass on Highway 152, my grandparents would declare it was time to play «Name That Crop.»

The oil - rich jatropha plant and other so - called «energy crops» being grown on the island may also pass through the industrial plant, as long as growers are willing to part with it for free (though that may prove unlikely).

According to a law passed on 18 June by the Bundestag, farmers and researchers will be liable for any loss of income if a neighbor's produce is contaminated by wayward pollen and can't be certified as «gene - free» — the popular term in Germany for conventional crops.

These crops are often eaten by animals, so their protection lies in the ability of their seeds (the «grain» itself) to pass through the animal and emerge on the other side as a pre-fertilized seed, ready to grow.

Sometimes I have to wonder if the industry pushes styles like cropped slacks just to save money (less fabric but the same price as long slacks) and they pass it off as a trend.

Since the sweater is more of a boxy fit that could pass as a longer crop style, I decided to layer a flannel shirt underneath.

See it cropping up in the character of Drew's widowed mother: in a flurry of manic energy after her husband's passing, Hollie (Susan Sarandon) proceeds to improve herself by learning stand - up comedy and tap - dancing — anything that will allow for slapstick comic whimsy (in learning to fix a car, the hood falls on her and she kicks her legs hysterically), which becomes as deadly as cancer during an ill - considered eulogy at a memorial service that stands as one of the most painful moments in movies this year.

Get a final proofread of it, if you can afford this step, or perhaps you've made arrangements for your copyeditor to do another, final pass to go over your revisions, looking for any new errors that may have cropped up as a result of the revisions.

In closing, as some of my older friends who have passed on once said to me, «If the locusts eat your crop, at least you don't have to harvest.»

The day's hike will start at this point, and will continue through Andean landscapes and over the Pukamarca Pass at 3,800 m, we will hike along a path that leads to the Tauca town, where we encounter archaeological remains and wild crops, such as tarwi, and a large quantity of cactus.

We will pass a few small communities such as Siwas, Qenqo and Pumamarka where you can see locals farming their lands with potatoes and bean crops as their ancestors did.

Then there is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which tried to pass off as peer - reviewed and true work by radical environmental groups falsely claiming Himalayan glaciers were rapidly disappearing and crops were failing.

AFAIK currently known weeds don't respond to increased pCO2 as well as crop plants do, but who knows what «pre-adapted» wild populations might be waiting to invade fields all over when the pCO2 passes a certain point?

To date, 17 states have passed pro-hemp laws or resolutions, including the California Assembly in 1999 when it passed a resolution declaring that «the Legislature should consider action to revise the legal status of industrial hemp to allow for its growth in California as an agricultural and industrial crop.»

But nefarious individuals or groups who try to pass off artificial fertilized crops as organic are in for a surprise.

However, fourteen states have passed hemp legislation, demonstrating hemp's legitimacy as an agro-industrial crop.

As with the bar, a cottage industry of prep courses have cropped up to help aspiring LEED applicants pass the exam, which among other things, requires familiarity with the entire LEED building - certification process.