(n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
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.
Thwaite
Definition:
(n.) The twaite.
(n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Satellite view of Antarctica with the Thwaites glacier marked in red.
(2) They’ve gone and checked their room but their stuff is still in there.” The family of Denis and Elaine Thwaites, aged 70 and 69, from Blackpool in Lancashire, were initially told they had been hurt in the attack, but then learned the information they had been given was incorrect.
(3) Maleficent also features Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, India Eisley, Miranda Richardson and Kenneth Cranham, none of whom are thought to be related to Jolie.
(4) Eight hand pulls, featuring such steady breweries as Hornbeam, Moorhouse's, Titanic and, often, a couple of beers from Thwaites, keep the regulars happy.
(5) The evidence presented in this and the accompanying paper (J. J. Thwaites and U.C.
(6) Thwaites, though, believes the former Cagliari owner will be a man of his word.
(7) His decision to sell comes at a time when the majority of United’s fans have turned on him, as witnessed during Thursday’s defeat to Blackburn Rovers, and Thwaites believes Cellino will be wary of the dissent a change of heart would cause.
(8) The little spark inside me went.” Others being reviewed by CCRC are the Earl of Hardwicke and his business partner Stefan Thwaites who were convicted after a drugs sting in 1999, the Pakistan spot-fixing case of businessman Mazhar Majeed in 2011, and that of Rani and Joginder Kashyap who were convicted of an immigration offence in 2007.
(9) Yesterday, after six weeks of the action at the high court in London, Private Eye's counsel, Ronald Thwaites QC, told Mr Justice Gray the parties had agreed terms.
(10) Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.
(11) The University of Washington researchers said that the fast-moving Thwaites glacier could be lost in a matter of centuries.
(12) Jeff Bridges plays The Giver, an elder who's allowed to lie and cheat to share pre-Sameness facts with the Receiver of Memory (Brenton Thwaites), a young apprentice who must know the truth to be able to avert catastrophe.
(13) In a vast region of western Antarctica that drains into the Amundsen Sea, the Pine Island glacier and neighbouring Smith and Thwaites glaciers are thinning by 9m a year, the satellite measurements show.
(14) Konig’s team-mate Scott Thwaites, bronze medallist in the Commonwealth Games road race in early August, remembers being inspired as a teenager by watching Swift wearing the mountains jersey when the race went past his school in Yorkshire, and returns this year to support Konig and the NetApp-Endura sprinter Sam Bennett.
(15) The study honed in on the Thwaites glacier – a broad glacier that is part of the Amundsen Sea.
(16) Dylan Thwaites is fronting the supporters’ group which the majority owner, Massimo Cellino, has told he will sell his stake to .
(17) The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers on the western Antarctic ice sheet, and the Totten and Cook glaciers on the eastern Antarctic ice sheet are now sliding into the water between 20% and 100% faster than in recent decades, the researchers report.
(18) Ian Thwaites from the Child Migrant Trust said it was "still very difficult to accept the full extent of what happened".
(19) Thwaites also acts as a dam that holds back the rest of the ice sheet.
(20) It is understood Cellino wants to hand over his shares in order to have a legacy at the end of a tumultuous time in charge and Thwaites hopes to have a period of exclusivity agreed soon.