Sentences with phrase «with agrarian»

With greater distance from his origins, Rohrer became even more directly concerned with his agrarian roots.

We find ourselves today within the transition from the industrial age to the information age with the agrarian mode of sustenance faded into the past.

In the 16th century schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work; with the agrarian, industrial and information age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better workers.

All have remained hunter - gatherers, but the Sandawe have intermarried with agrarian peoples and forayed into agriculture; they also have light skin.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.»

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.

(So that's the more egalitarian — rural but not usually agrarian — America for which Dr. Pat Deneen and others want us, with some very good reasons, to have nostalgia.)

As Theissen has observed,»... all the parables in Mark come from the agrarian world and deal with sowing and reaping, harvests, and vineyards, we find ourselves in a deeply rural milieu.

These two writers seem to be able to speak to our current concerns with technology and democracy with more impact and dare I say relevance than the agrarians.

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.

Here agrarians join hands with the ecologists who have shown us that interdependence, even if its nature is not fully understood, is the law of life.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

In more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouses.

(Consider also, if you want, how quickly the Cherokees transformed themselves into good [slaveholding sometimes], agrarian Americans, with their really deep traditions both adapting and sometimes disappearing.)

Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.

When he came to southern Alberta my grandfather brought with him not only his family but also an agrarian disposition and set of values.

American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.

Chaney's following description is very apt: «Solomon's attempts to finish the transformation of Israel into a typical agrarian nation - state, complete with his erection of the Temple as a royal chapel to house Yawehism as a state established and state - legitimizing religion, were minus that flow of booty.

It's true, the current schedule was built around agrarian kids helping with the summer harvest.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

The three day duration of the crusade has always turned out to be very rewarding for the residents of the community and its environ as it provides them an opportunity to mingle, hobnob and exchange pleasantries with quality foreign and local visitors attracted to the sleepy agrarian community.

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

Comparing the climate record with organized agrarian state level societies in Mexico, Kennett and Marwan looked at the rise and falls of three states — Teotihuacán from 100 BCE to 650 CE, Toltec from 900 to 1150 CE and the Aztec Empire from 1400 to 1519.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Metropolitan ends with three of its characters on a roadside, out of money, thumbing a ride, wiser and happier; it's a film about the wealthy that an agrarian socialist need not object to.

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

A pastiche of both American and agrarian values, The Guard is a high - octane world of drug - smuggling, dollar bills and explosions, frequently interrupted by shaggy dogs, small - town racism and dodgy dealings with the IRA.

The story is of a group of people with all different skill sets coming together, it's set in a very agrarian pseudo-futuristic middle ages timeline, you spend a lot of time talking to people in towns, all travel is basically on foot between points A and B, and the battle system is very basic and turn - based, with a passive style.

Given an agrarian society with poor transportation, schools could only draw enough students to populate one - room schoolhouses.

Changes to the nature of work from agrarian to factory during the mid-19th century, combined with westward expansion, further encouraged a fragmented system of academies to give way to widespread public schooling.

Boys are, in many ways, better suited than girls for work in the information age but are saddled with an educational model based on an agrarian society.

In Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the north.

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

Uruguay is a lovely little country with lots of positive things going for it, it is a very liberal and peaceful society but almost exclusively agrarian.

The sport - utility comes with an all - new interior and in three models: S, LS and Limited.The four - wheel drive Trooper is a classy, upscale vehicle, a different animal than the boxy, agrarian first - generation Trooper.All 1995 models are powered by a smooth - running, 3.2 - liter, 24 - valve V - 6 engine and have dual air bags.

The latest version of the Isuzu Trooper is starting to look like a bonafide contender to such sport - utility heavyweights as the Land Rover Discovery, Ford Explorer, Chevy Blazer and Jeep Grand Cherokee.For 1995, Isuzu has sharpened the focus of the four - door Trooper, which comes with an all - new interior and in three models - S, LS and Limited.The four - wheel drive Trooper is now a classy, upscale vehicle, an entirely different animal than the boxy, agrarian first - generation Trooper.All 1995 models are powered by an exceptionally smooth - running 3.2 - liter 24 - valve V - 6 engine and are equipped with dual air bags.

South Africa, which had been an agrarian society just barely making contact with the rest of the world, became an international industrial society.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.

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

The explicitly urban and local references of Bay Area abstraction centered at CSFA — Jefferson's paintings titled with street names, Lobdell's agrarian aerial views, Strong's topographies of Bolinas Peninsula, Wharf Road, and Harrison Street — have the feel of Theocritan idylls in some inverse metonymy evoking the great plains, high desert, and mountain ranges of the vanishing West.

Polyface considers it a privilege and honor to partner with BSSS and these wonderful artists to express not only the distinctive aesthetics of our rural agrarian landscapes, but also the overall artistic energy in our region.

In a recent series of hand - sewn fabric works that debuted at the Untitled art fair in Miami in December, felt silhouettes inspired by photographs of police violence during the 2012 national agrarian strike in Colombia mingle with images of the Cathara women, similarly brought to their knees.

Looking at the roots of human existence, and the fruits of our toil with the land, Jackie Nickerson captured agrarian laborers in Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe — where 70 percent of the population on the African continent works in agriculture.

Symbolising the complex social and political realities facing contemporary agrarian communities in Asia, immense, wing - like sculptures made from hand - forged sickles are hung and counter-balanced by sacks of rice, alongside photographs of farmers with video, sound and drawings.

Artist Statement: Though the image of the heroic American agrarian has been obscured by an industrial model, the «human interface» — and the implied connection to the land — remains an icon, along with pastoral vistas, vernacular architecture, and the family farm.