(a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
(a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
(n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
(n.) An agrarian law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case in India is slightly different as independence from the British in 1947 saw India undergo agrarian reforms and, although the situation is far from perfect , farmers have more control over their land and there is better recognition of farmers' rights.
(2) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(3) Food prices were obtained from the Institute of Agrarian Marketing; data on production costs, from the National Bank of Agricultural Development in Guatemala.
(4) The impacts are visible, although poverty reduction in a heavily agrarian and rural society remains a challenge.
(5) The first of these was EU enlargement and the question of how relatively underdeveloped agrarian economies such as Poland and Slovakia will be brought into the CAP.
(6) The Guardian view on elections in the Philippines: a leap into the unknown Read more Duterte also said he would pursue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas and as an olive branch would offer government roles to the Communist party, including its exiled founder – most likely the cabinet posts of environment and natural resources, agrarian reform, social welfare, and labour.
(7) It was practised on every continent and archipelago, from the agrarian revolution onwards.
(8) The agrarian reforms of the Mexican Revolution created communal parcels of land called ejidos, on which people could squat.
(9) Soon Jarosław disposed of his proxy and became prime minister himself, in coalition with the agrarian-populist Self Defence party and the nationalist-religious League of Polish Families, implementing a zealous programme of “decommunisation”.
(10) A 'worst case' scenario for the burden of fatal disease is taken as a poor agrarian society precariously dependent on starchy staples and a narrow range of other foods.
(11) Drastic modifications in agrarian space, with the reductions of primary forests, along with changes in rural production systems have led to the growth of salaried employment and also caused rural workers to move to the peripheral areas of cities.
(12) Then, the country was poor, agrarian, and had a high birth rate; infant mortality was high.
(13) The pattern of urbanism at Angkor was hardly unique: the Mayan cities that Pottier’s maps of Angkor reminded Fletcher of have long been recognised as low-density agrarian settlements.
(14) Its theatre of operations – the Sahel – features a perfect storm of sovereignty: deficient states, a young, economically frustrated population mired in poverty, nations with long histories of strife and the collapse of agrarian economies due to climate change.
(15) "Dilma's government has taken a step back on agrarian reform because she is in an alliance with conservatives," said national co-ordinator Marina dos Santos.
(16) The loggers take timber from wherever they can find it, including indigenous reserves and land allocated to peasant families as part of the government's agrarian reform programme.
(17) People have this misconception that these areas are desperately poor or overly agrarian – but some counties are more similar to Tier 4 or 5 cities, with lively manufacturing industries and substantial husbandry and farming operations.
(18) Chilean Miguel Altieri, professor of Agroecology at the University of Berkeley and member of Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology calls the movement a new agrarian revolution, which opposes the green revolution.
(19) In the long run, if we are at all serious about addressing environmental concerns and balancing different modern economic sectors – including the agrarian – in a labour-surplus economy, then remapping the interconnections between the rural and the urban will make it easier to achieve those objectives.
(20) The authors investigated the obesity incidence in connection with nutrition factors in 13 representative settlements of Industry-Agrarian Complex Burgas.
Tenure
Definition:
(n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
(n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
(n.) The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
(n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(3) Morbidity was more strongly related to housing tenure and car availability than to occupational class.
(4) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(5) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(6) For once, however, Beckham's timing was out, and his tenure has seen the club win nothing, and a new regime led by austere Italian Fabio Capello sweep away the superstar culture.
(7) David Moyes can only hope his first full day as Sunderland’s manager does not set the tone for the remainder of his tenure.
(8) Conte’s tenure as national manager has been anything other than a smooth ride.
(9) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
(10) Tenure in methadone maintenance treatment was analyzed in terms of treatment process factors using a survival curve regression analysis.
(11) The authors point out the conceptual, heuristic, and practical clinical advantages of examining living preference rather than traditional correlates of hospital tenure.
(12) In his critique of a GST increase on equity grounds, Bowen noted that Morrison had opened his tenure in the treasury portfolio by declaring the Commonwealth had a spending problem, not a revenue problem – but now seemed more interested in chasing revenue than cutting spending.
(13) The experience of Berkeley House, a psychiatric halfway house, is related as an example of a program that has achieved successful community tenure for its patients through the creation of an extended psychosocial kinship system.
(14) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
(15) Autonomy is a vital component of long tenure and satisfaction.
(16) During her tenure, sales have tripled to nearly £6bn and profits grown more than three times to a record high of £942m in 2011, as the company focused on learning products and moved towards digital.
(17) He casts Livingstone's tenure as one big financial mismanagement and contrasts this to his own administration, which, he argues, has been rewarded by the coalition government for responsibly cutting waste with funding that will allow major infrastructure investments such as Crossrail and tube upgrades to go ahead.
(18) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
(19) This is advice Clinton has almost certainly taken to heart as she defends herself against attacks over her family foundation’s acceptance of foreign donations and her use of private email during her tenure as secretary of state.
(20) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.