Sentences with phrase «sheep dip»

Cheers to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg for blowing the antiquated dust off Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel about a willful heroine who'd rather muck about in sheep dip on a farm she inherited than marry guys who treat her like property.
The pollution incidents have brought fresh demands from the SEPA and the Environment Agency for the government to tighten rules on sheep dipping.
«We have probably had as many cases of pollution from sheep dip in the past year as in the previous 10 years,» says Morrison.
If the residue only affects a small part of the property, for example an old sheep dip, the rest of the farm can be certified organic but the contaminated area must be fenced off from the rest of the property.
Organic wool is increasingly becoming available: it is produced using sustainable farming practices and without toxic sheep dips.
«It seems that only with their use as sheep dip have pyrethroids begun to reach the aquatic environment,» says Prigg.
Two years ago, the National Rivers Authority, the Environment Agency's predecessor, called for a ban on pouring waste dip into holes in the ground and for new rules to keep sheep dipping away from rivers.
PESTICIDES that are rapidly replacing hazardous organophosphates in sheep dips across Britain are decimating invertebrates in rivers, say government ecologists.
Here is part of it — «Tweed and Bess (Dave's older dog) have been busy sheep dipping the last few days, he (Tweed) follows Dave like a hawk and Dave is very proud of him, even getting my wife and kids out of the house for a demo last weekend.
A Conservative MP who plans to stand again in the 2015 general election, compares life at Westminster with being a «sheep going through a sheep dip», and how party whips are able to «bully the workforce».
A Conservative MP compared life at Westminster with being a «sheep going through a sheep dip», and said party whips were able to «bully the workforce».
New - onset intolerances and multisystem symptoms have shown up in sheep dippers in rural areas of Europe (sheep dip is an organophosphate pesticide), homeowners in Germany exposed to a toxic wood preservative, individuals breathing fumes from massive oil spills, radiology workers in New Zealand who inhaled chemicals while developing films, and individuals living or working in newly remodeled buildings.
Some even allow learners to assess first, so they can access the support they actually need rather than going through the entire «sheep dip» experience.
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