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Example sentences for "agrarian"

Lexicographically close words:
agora; agorot; agouti; agoutis; agraffe; agrarianism; agre; agreable; agreably; agree
  1. Congestion imposes upon agrarian China many problems and evils known as urban in the West.

  2. Any nation which seeks to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy discovers that amiable defects become ruinous flaws: machinery cannot wait; a machine society requires a discipline of its own.

  3. In 1934, after seven years of war against the Communist-led agrarian insurrections in South Central China, the Generalissimo decided to extend to the whole people the type of work done by the Corps.

  4. In that year, also, the minds of the people were excited by the allurements of the agrarian law.

  5. The dissuader and opposer of the agrarian law now began to be popular.

  6. This year also found a tribune to support an agrarian law.

  7. Disturbance at home immediately followed in close succession on peace abroad: the commons were goaded by the spur employed by the tribunes in the shape of the agrarian law.

  8. Then, for the first time, an agrarian law was proposed, which from that time down to the memory of our own days has never been discussed without the greatest civil disturbances.

  9. In rivalry to the agrarian law, he obtained the creation of twelve colonies of three thousand citizens each.

  10. Servilius Rullus revived one of those projects which, for ages, have had the effect of exciting to the highest degree both the avidity of the proletaries and the anger of the Senate: it was an agrarian law.

  11. The rejection of the agrarian law, and of the claims of the sons of proscripts, augmented considerably the number of malcontents.

  12. Campania for the first time, and says that Pompey had approved the first agrarian law.

  13. The agrarian law, and the law concerning the rents, having satisfied the interests of the proletaries, the veterans, and the knights, it became important to settle the just demands of Pompey.

  14. The agrarian laws and the emancipation of Italy ceased, for some time, to torment the Senate.

  15. The agrarian law had only passed by the assistance of the votes of the country tribes.

  16. It appears that the ager of Leontinum, in Sicily, was also comprised in the agrarian law.

  17. It does not hold for agrarian countries like Australia, Canada, or South Africa, for backward countries like Russia, or dependent countries like Switzerland or Denmark, where there is no danger of Socialism.

  18. Unmistakable signs show that in New Zealand an agrarian oligarchy by no means friendly to labor has already established itself.

  19. There is no doubt that Mr. Simons here indorses the most promising line of agrarian reform under capitalism.

  20. The Eleusinia and Thesmophoria are discussed elsewhere, but brief mention may here be made of certain agrarian festivals held in honour of Demeter.

  21. In the agrarian legends of Iasion and Erysichthon, Demeter also plays an important part.

  22. Decemvirs as well as triumvirs were at times appointed to make distributions of domain lands in accordance with the provisions of an agrarian law.

  23. Yet the tribunes who attempted thus to gain the good will of the people set forth clearly the object which they had in view in bringing forward an agrarian bill.

  24. In 440, the tribune, Petilius, proposed an agrarian law.

  25. During this century which had beheld the organization of the republic and the growth, by tardy processes, of the great plebeian body many agrarian laws were proposed and numerous divisions of the public land took place.

  26. In our review of the agrarian agitation we must mention the forceless and insignificant attempt made by the son of Spurius Melius, in 434.

  27. The first agrarian movement after the Sullan Revolution was that inaugurated by the tribune Rullus.

  28. This was the last attempt at agrarian legislation until the year 59, when Julius Caesar enacted his famous law.

  29. The senate continued to take the initiative in agrarian movements.

  30. But no sooner had the agrarian laws established a more equitable distribution of property, and other popular laws opened the magistracy to merit without distinction of rank, than the city rose to empire with unexampled rapidity.

  31. An agrarian law was a proposal to make an assignment of portions of the public lands to the people, and to limit the quantity of national land that could be farmed by any particular patrician.

  32. From what has been said above, it is evident that a law for sending out a colony was virtually an agrarian law, since lands were invariably assigned to those who were thus induced to abandon their homes.

  33. It also appears, that had not agrarian laws been introduced, the great body of the plebeians would have become the clients of the patricians, and the form of government would have been a complete oligarchy.

  34. Civil commotions on account of the Agrarian law XII.

  35. The contests respecting agrarian laws occupy so large a space in Roman history, and are so liable to be misunderstood, that it is necessary to explain their origin at some length.

  36. These proceedings do not require a word of comment; they strikingly illustrate how the agrarian code of Ireland makes havoc of capital, annuls contracts, and confiscates property for the behoof of dishonest thriftlessness.

  37. What would be the consequences, economic, social, political, of this sudden agrarian revolution in one of the Three Kingdoms?

  38. By 1895 the conspiracy showed scarcely a sign of life; agrarian crime had sunk to a very low ebb; there was no sign of a movement against the payment of rent; order prevailed, it may be said, throughout the community.

  39. The results were seen in the White Boy and the agrarian disorders which had disturbed Ireland for more than a century, and even ran back to the confiscations of the past.

  40. The Act of 1870, like the Act dealing with the Protestant Church, was followed by a short-lived outbreak of agrarian crime put down only by severe coercive measures.

  41. Buck, The Agrarian Crusade (1920), is founded on wide knowledge of the subject and contains bibliography; F.

  42. The Deutsche Tageszeitung is the organ of the Agrarian League.

  43. It is of primary consequence that Englishmen should realise the undoubted fact, that agrarian conspiracies and agrarian outrages, such as those which baffle the English Government in Ireland, are known to foreign countries.

  44. It would be folly to assert that all popular opposition to the law in Ireland had been connected with agrarian questions.

  45. Is Irish discontent due in the main to agrarian or to political causes?

  46. The advice may in one sense be sound, but prudence suggests that if the fifty millions are to be expended, it were best first to settle the agrarian feud, and then to see whether the demand for Home Rule would not die a natural death.

  47. In Belgium decisive measures of punishment at last put an end to agrarian outrages.

  48. It cannot tempt capital towards Ireland, but it may easily drive capital away from her shores; it cannot diminish poverty; it cannot in its direct effect assuage religious bigotry; it cannot of itself remove agrarian discontent.

  49. Supposing for a moment that we bring home this equation to the Anglo-Saxon financiers, there would still remain the question how far it truthfully represented agrarian facts.

  50. The agrarian is almost the only tie that keeps it together.

  51. Euti who invaded Kent fitted themselves into an agrarian framework prepared by Celts.

  52. In the thirteenth century the common field of a Cambridgeshire village was often a very maze of proprietary rights, and yet the village was an agrarian whole.

  53. It was what the agrarian historians of Germany call a Feldgrasswirtschaft[1402].

  54. It may be a fairly large and agrarianly organic unit, or it may be a group of small agrarian units which are being held together in one whole merely by an external force, by police law and fiscal law[45].

  55. Agrarian history becomes more catastrophic as we trace it backwards.

  56. Thus, though many of the burgesses may till the soil, the borough community is not an agrarian community.

  57. There is a tradition that, having already conceived a lively interest in the ecclesiastical and agrarian problems of Ireland, Mr. Gladstone had set his affections on the Chief Secretaryship.

  58. Nothing could be more idle than to confound the agrarian crime of Ireland with the ordinary crime of England, or even of Ireland.

  59. Property and life had become very insecure, and there was a startling increase of agrarian crime that such a measure was deemed necessary.

  60. In regard to general crime, Ireland held a high and honorable place, but how different was the case with agrarian crime!

  61. The spread of an agrarian conspiracy at Westmeath compelled the government to move for a committee to inquire into the unlawful combination and confederacy existing.

  62. It was a significant fact that the agrarian outrages had risen and fallen with the meetings of the Land League.

  63. The Italian Federation of Agrarian Unions has greatly contributed to agricultural progress.

  64. The landlords on their part organized an agrarian union to defend their interests and enrolled numbers of non-union labourers to carry on the necessary work and save the crops.

  65. Various laws have been passed to facilitate agrarian credit.

  66. The relations between owners and tillers of the soil are still regulated by the ancient forms of agrarian contract, which have remained almost untouched by social and political changes.

  67. Agrarian credit banks may, with the permission of the government, issue cartelle agrarie, or agrarian bonds, repayable by instalments and bearing interest.

  68. In March 1902 agrarian strikes organized by the leghe broke out in the district of Copparo and Polesine (lower valley of the Po), owing to a dispute about the labour contracts, and in Apulia on account of unemployment.

  69. An important undertaking, known as the Agricultural Inquiry, brought to light vast quantities of information valuable for future agrarian legislation.

  70. The cultivated area may be divided into five agrarian regions or zones, named after the variety of tree culture which flourishes in them.

  71. It is altogether a tale of barbarous action unequalled in the annals of agrarian crime.

  72. The agrarian movement that followed produced but little poetry, and of that little all is forgotten but a vehement poem by Fanny Parnell and a couple of songs by T.

  73. The Academic Class and the Agrarian Revolution.

  74. D] John O’Leary had spent much of his thought in an unavailing war with the agrarian party, believing it the root of change, but the fox that crept into the badger’s hole did not come from there.

  75. And yet it was Herzen and Chernishevsky and Dobrolubov, these "sketch-writers," who kept up the fire of agrarian reform and who practically forced the issue upon Alexander II.

  76. In his numerous works, chiefly on agrarian questions, he was a warm defender of the destitute and the oppressed.

  77. Broadly speaking, British interests are allied with American finance, as against the pacifistic and agrarian tendencies of the Middle West.

  78. If this should happen to synchronize with agrarian discontent, it would be impossible to foretell the issue.

  79. But although the Tribunes were unable to cope with Cicero in the Forum, they subsequently contrived to instil suspicions into the minds of the populace, with regard to his motives in opposing the Agrarian law.

  80. These are the first and second of the speeches, which we now have against Rullus; but he also mentions, that there were two apospasmatia, as he calls them, concerning the Agrarian law.

  81. After the expulsion of the kings, an Agrarian law, by which only seven acres were allotted to each citizen, was promulgated, and for some time rigidly enforced.

  82. The situation of public affairs occasioned those continual debates concerning the Agrarian Laws, and the consequent popularity acquired by the most factious demagogues.

  83. It has been disputed, whether this third oration was the last which Cicero pronounced on occasion of this Agrarian law.

  84. The effect politically is to give an enormous advantage to the conservative and agrarian interests and to deprive the socialists and other popular elements all but completely of representation.

  85. The Agrarian group, of which indeed one hears as early as 1876, comprised principally the grain-growing landholders of northern and eastern Germany.

  86. The Agrarian Movement and the Rise of the Bloc.

  87. Those of Agrarian sympathies (especially the Prussian landholders) allied themselves with the forces of opposition.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agrarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.