(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(2) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(3) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(4) UK agriculture, it argues, “is much more dependent on EU markets than the EU is on the UK”.
(5) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(6) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
(7) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(8) This population-based case-control study of 130 Calgary residents with neurologist-confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 260 randomly selected age- and sex-matched community controls attempted to determine whether agricultural work or the occupational use of pesticide chemicals is associated with an increased risk for PD.
(9) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(10) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(11) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(12) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(13) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(14) Barriers protecting industry, manufacturing and agriculture were demolished.
(15) The Tasmanian government will extend its ban on fracking for five years to protect the state’s agricultural industry.
(16) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(17) In 2008-09, DfID's bilateral spending on agricultural programmes in sub-Saharan African amounted to just £20m, a fraction of its £5.7bn budget.
(18) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(19) Adjusted relative risk estimates suggest that risks were elevated for children whose fathers were engaged in agricultural occupations during the period from 6 months prior to conception of the subject up to the time of diagnosis for the patients or interview for the controls (relative risk (RR) = 8.8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.8-42.7) and for children whose fathers had occupational exposure to herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers (RR = 6.1, 95% CI 1.7-21.9, p = 0.002).
(20) France's agriculture minister, Stéphane Le Foll, said the rules were simple: "There has to be a correspondence between the container and what's in it.
Mattock
Definition:
(n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ball gets away from him for a goal kick and it's still USA 0-0 Jamaica 12.15am BST 38 mins Mattocks has another run at Evans and this time cuts inside.
(2) As halftime approached, a team head coach Peter Vermes described as “watching the game” was still recalibrating, with Mattocks’ 39th-minute goal doubling the lead gifted them by right back, Igor Julião: Down two at half-time, Sporting worked themselves into the game, nearly conceding a third goal after Aurèlien Collin gave up a penalty kick five minutes from time.
(3) Mattocks hits a low, skimming shot that's straight at Howard and that'll do it for the half.
(4) Yet as Real Salt Lake analyst Brian Dunseth explained on air, if you draw a line from Nat Borchers' tackle through the ball, it wouldn't go through Vancouver attacker Darren Mattocks.
(5) In a previous study, we showed that aspirin in the presence of limited amounts of moisture falls to follow Leeson-Mattocks kinetics at 62.5 degrees C. This system has been tested at a series of temperatures, and several plausible models have been tested.
(6) A minute later there's a better chance as Phillips gets forward well down the left to curl in a sharp outswinger onto the head of Darren Mattocks who at least makes Howard save, if not particularly work.
(7) Mattock's goal came from Chris Maguire's accurate delivery as he pounced on a header from Glenn Loovens, and 11 minutes later the left-back was the provider for Oguchi Onyewu, who also scored his first Wednesday goal.
(8) Mandaric watched from the Spotland stand, with longer-term Wednesday stalwarts including Roy Hattersley and David Blunkett, as Joe Mattock, the former England under-21 left back, scored his first goal for the club, set up another but was then dismissed for a second yellow card – all this in the space of 15 second-half minutes to leave the Owls with 10 men for a nervy half hour.
(9) For pseudouridine (Weissman et al., 1962; Dugaiczyk & Eiler, 1966) and 7-methylguanine (Craddock, Mattocks & Magee, 1968), urinary excretion has been shown to be quantitative.
(10) When Mattocks buried the ensuing kick, Vancouver had enought to take a 1-1 out of Rio Tinto.
(11) Mattocks, now an activist for YoungMinds, said: “I was being seen by CAMHS and they always said that if you feel unsafe, go to A&E if it is out of hours, and that happened a lot because that tended to be [when] I would feel unsafe.
(12) USA: Howard; Evans, Cameron, Besler, Beasley; Bedoya, Diskerud, Jones, Donovan; Johannsson, Altidore Jamaica: Kerr; Doyley, Morgan, Mariappa, Phillips; McAnuff, Austin, Watson, Johnson; Mattocks, Brown 11.07pm BST Preamble If it’s meaning you want you’ve come to the right place.This might be the most meaningful game ever played by the US men’s national team.
(13) Kakuta Manneh, the team’s most dangerous player this spring, has lost his starting job, with Darren Mattocks’ return to the lineup pushing Erik Hurtado to one of the team’s wide attacking roles.
(14) Having led early through a Darren Mattocks goal, Vancouver ended up having to come back for the draw and ultimately regretting yet more points dropped from winning positions in a season that’s been something of a mixed bag.
(15) Mattocks tries to liven things up by running at Brad Evans but the Sounders man sticks to his task well to prod the ball out for a throw.
(16) Jamaica meanwhile fielding a very MLS heavy attack, with Vancouver's Mattocks up alongside Colorado's DeShorn Brown.
(17) Again Evans looks to have got the better of his man as he slides in to tackle, but as Mattocks goes sprawling the referee awards a free kick in a dangerous position just left of the D. The dangerous Austin takes it and it skims juuuuuuust wide of Howard's right post.
(18) On their watch, early intervention services are being stripped back, professionals are being told to do more for less, and more children are becoming so ill they need hospital care.” Nicola Mattocks, 18, from Croydon in south London, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, recurring depression, post-traumatic stress and social anxiety, said that it had become common for community services to advise that young people attend A&E during out-of-office hours.
(19) b) Biochemical analysis of neuro transmitters according to H. Spatz and Mattock to study clinical and laboratory correlation and guide therapy.
(20) The new programme not only releases school nurse time for developing health promotion activities within the core curriculum, writes Carole Mattock.