Sample Sentences foragrarian (auto-selected)
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The country transformed from an agrarian to an industrial economy.agrarian = agriculture-based
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There on the third of January 1928, the historians tell us, was the launch of the First Five-Year Plan—that initiative which would begin the transformation of Russia from a nineteenth-century agrarian society into a twentieth-century industrial power.† (source)
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We were agrarian, unsophisticated, industrious people, Jews and Christians alike, whose lives revolved around family, our religious calendars, and the seasons of sowing and reaping.† (source)
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Agrarian reform ruined things for everyone.† (source)
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He was a southern agrarian, rooted in the rich, black soil of the Carolina midlands.† (source)
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The old ones, they're agrarian types, you know.† (source)
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Even my "nonpolitical" novel, Bless Me, Ultima, has moved people to explore the roots of their agrarian, Mexicano way of life.† (source)
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Despoiled and exploited like the South, and like it, a poverty-ridden, agrarian, feudal society, Poland has shared with the Old South one bulwark against its immemorial humiliation, and that is pride.† (source)
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But evidently Pavel took an even gloomier view than the censor who urged Voskoboinikov to moderate his passionate views on the agrarian problem.† (source)
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The Somali Bantu were sometimes referred to by Somalis as the "ooji"—from the Italian word oggi, meaning "today"—for their perceived inability to think beyond the moment, a misunderstanding rooted in the different way the agrarian Somali Bantu conceived of time.† (source)
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It's a landlocked and impoverished country with an agrarian economy that exports excellent coffee and tea and not much else — a land of dwindling forests that still has lovely rustic landscapes.† (source)
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That is an agrarian reform which means something.† (source)
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There in the Middle and Southwest had lived a simple agrarian folk who had not changed with industry, who had not farmed with machines or known the power and danger of machines in private hands.† (source)
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Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.† (source)
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I know enough about such things to know that the rights and duties needed for a co-operative colony like this can't be taken over word for word from an agrarian democracy, and they are still different from those necessary for an industrial republic.† (source)
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Southern states are among the fastest-growing in the country, transforming the region from an agrarian backwater to America's dynamic hub of transportation, banking, and manufacturing.† (source)
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