(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.
Subplot
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
(2) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(3) It was impossible to ignore the subplot here that the manager needed a result more than ever.
(4) Even leaving aside the tricky Royal subplot, the marriage of politics and the media in the presidency was always going to attract controversy.
(5) Given the game’s venue, however, the ‘Quakes place in the table was a subplot.
(6) Four steers received abomasal infusion of 400 ml of water (control) or of corn oil, which served as the whole plot treatment, and the isolation of lipoproteins by ultra-centrifugation at 4, 20 and 37 degrees C were the subplot treatments.
(7) Chelsea have won seven matches during that sequence and once we had waded through all the varying subplots and controversies the bottom line is the Premier League leaders have re-established a five-point advantage ahead of Manchester City – and gone nine clear of Arsenal – courtesy of Eden Hazard’s expertly taken penalty and the latest demonstration of Diego Costa’s penalty-box prowess.
(8) One approach to the analysis of such data is to treat time as the subplot treatment and to use a split-plot analysis of variance.
(9) The allegations have become a prominent subplot in the scandal that forced the resignation of the Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond last week.
(10) There's no guarantee that all, or indeed any, of the subplots that emerge during the course of the season will be wrapped up by season's end.
(11) The least effective element of the show is its midway subplot involving a reindeer on the run from a malevolent Santa.
(12) He becomes a mortician's assistant for a while in Cairo and – in a peculiarly creepy subplot – endures a winter sojourn in the town of Lakeside, Wisconsin.
(13) Maxime Colin’s duel with Stewart Downing turned into an intriguing subplot, with the former England winger discovering he could not quite waltz past the visiting right-back on the outside.
(14) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
(15) There’s always this subplot of: ‘There is going to be terrible publicity on this … it’s not going to reflect well on the government and all these kids’.” Loughton said Kids Company would “mesmerise” people in positions of power to “pay up or else”.
(16) This was a cause he was happy to be swept into: climate change made a perfect subplot for his grand narrative about the world of evil capitalism ruining nature.
(17) "Nothing about this is alright," sulks Barbie, as the Shyamalanisms mount and subplots involving murderous youths and mysterious propane deliveries suggest that even the programme makers can't be particularly arsed with this "having to keep referring to the dome" lark.
(18) "Whatever this thing is, it's big," expounds putatively hunksome antihero Dale "Barbie" Barbara, helpfully, as his utility slacks are besieged by subplots.
(19) The prospect of the BBC and ITV facing off for the highlights is just one subplot for in a Premier League rights battle that will again see Sky and BT Sport competing go head to head for live games.
(20) In a subplot worthy of a sequel to Wind in the Willows (which featured a water vole named Ratty), some wildlife experts have suggested the resurgent otter may prove an unexpected ally for the vole by ousting the weasel-like mink.