(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.
Pitchfork
Definition:
(n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
(v. t.) To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
Example Sentences:
(1) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(2) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(3) He says : Syro is the “most accessible” of the several albums he’s been working on, according to a forthcoming interview with James on Pitchfork.
(4) But Reznor told Pitchfork that experiments with Belew formed the catalyst for bringing the project back from hiatus , pushing him from "a discussion on performing … to some beard-scratching … to the decision to rethink the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be".
(5) Speaking from his $1m property, which was originally built in 1934 for the king of Yugoslavia's treasurer, Benmosche defended the company's employees: "A lot of them feel hurt, embarrassed, a lot of people have lived in fear because of what I call lynch mobs with pitchforks."
(6) Independent musician Krukowski (of Galaxie 500 and Damon and Naomi) has already made one influential contribution to the streaming debate with his Making Cents op-ed for Pitchfork last year, breaking down his royalty payments.
(7) And yet, since the spring of 2010, WU LYF have found themselves featured by outlets including the Guardian , Pitchfork, BBC Radio 1, the New York Observer and Vogue Italia.
(8) Those two weeks should not be called paternity leave – they should be called pitchfork duty.
(9) After all, they might get restless – and that’s a lot of possible pitchforks.
(10) Judge Carl Anthony Walker declared on Tuesday that Keef had shown a "wilful disregard of the court" when he took a Pitchfork reporter to a New York gun range.
(11) No one really knows, but we can be clear that those driving the minister forward with pitchforks have a visceral hatred of the appearance of wind turbines.
(12) Pitchfork reports that the clip included archival footage of MIA and Diplo, plus interviews with artists and label executives such as Kanye West , Spike Jonze and XL's Richard Russell.
(13) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(14) Other radical parties are expected to make it past the 5% threshold, including one led by the controversial Oleh Lyashko, who has taken part in the detention and questioning of separatists in the east, often using dubious methods, and whose party symbol is a pitchfork.
(15) Free Music Damon Krukowski, Pitchfork: "One way we could start is to collectively acknowledge that nobody can really claim digital streams as exclusive property.
(16) Mitt Romney's real success in the first presidential debate was to not emerge from the wings wearing horns and carrying a pitchfork, demanding that all the women in the audience submit immediately to transvaginal ultrasounds and relieving them of 23 cents for every dollar they happened to have on them.
(17) Initially championed by influential American music websites such as Pitchfork, it became one of the most critically lauded albums of the year, selling more than half a million copies globally.
(18) The Chicago Sun-Times reported that prosecutors cited the Pitchfork video as the main reason for his arrest.
(19) On Monday, at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal , someone tweeted me – and I’m not going to name them, as I have no interest in bringing the Twitter pitchfork mobs down on anyone’s head – “Can you do something about the bar prices here being so antisemitic?” I read this one out, even though I knew it wasn’t funny.
(20) Pitchfork took the video down in September after the murder of another Chicago rapper, Lil JoJo, saying the clip was "insensitive and irresponsible" given Chicago's ongoing gun violence.