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Cotton in sentence

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Soon they have rented a property where they can raise cotton and be their own masters, so to speak - well, the house turns out to be nothing but a broken-down, ramshackle shack, the whole place needs loads and loads of work - but one good thing" it has "good earth".
The dialog is such a joke that the audience broke into laughter at one of most "dramatic" moments (during the scene in DeNiro's apartment with his new-found grandchild), DeNiro plays his character as one who seemingly has the intelligence of cotton ball.
It's the story of a man, Sam Tucker, working as a cotton picker along with his wife and parents.
A shooting star falls to earth and soon the crazy ugly clowns are shooting innocent residents with popcorn guns and wrapping them up in cotton candy.
This is a very down to earth film story written by William Faulkner concerning a cotton farmer named Jackson Fentry, (Robert Duvall) who lives in the South and he is a poor person but also works as a watchman over a saw mill during the Winter.
This film is about a lot of things- I think the primary motif and theme is the male body- the three brothers wear slim fitting, 60's or 70's style suits and accessories, and are often shown in little more than a pair of boxers or light cotton pajamas.
I also enjoyed those scenes in the cotton plantations.
By the time he's confessed he's shagged his sister-in-law - her cotton panties reminded him of Lola's fleece - his passenger, a bishop (Bonacelli), is lying dead on the back seat from a shock-induced heart attack.
The plot, about a town in a cotton pickin' county, is rather lame, involving a dishonest female judge and a sleazy cotton grower.
Oil-hair boy has seduced the judge (a woman old enough to be his mother) into changing the city laws so that people can be arrested for even minor infractions such as jay-walking and then be sent to his cotton farm as free labor.
AND!!! that butcher guy.. his beard was TOTALLY fake! it looked like they super glued cotton to his face!
Violations included a “vertical monopoly” in the Malawi sugar sector, price fixing in Kenya’s fertilizer industry, and a “buyer cartel” in the Zimbabwean cotton industry.
Today's 70 million Egyptians live much better than their heavily taxed cotton- and grain-growing predecessors of Mehemet Ali's time.
The numbers are truly alarming: subsidies in advanced countries exceed the total income of sub-Saharan Africa; the average European subsidy per cow matches the $2 per day poverty level on which billions of people barely subsist;America's $4 billion cotton subsidies to 25,000 well-off farmers bring misery to 10 million African farmers and more than offset America's miserly foreign aid to some of the affected countries.
These suicides are most frequent where farmers grow cotton, and appear directly linked to the presence of seed monopolies.
For the supply of cotton seeds in India has increasingly slipped out of the hands of farmers and into the hands of global seed producers like Monsanto.
This was a period when Monsanto and its Indian partner, Mahyco, were also carrying out illegal field experiments with genetically engineered Bt cotton.
We at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology used the law to stop Monsanto’s commercialization of Bt cotton in 1999, which is why approval was not granted for commercial sales until 2002.
This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries’ claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.
At the start, the technology for engineering Bt genes into cotton was aimed primarily at controlling pests.
However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of pesticides.
In the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra, which has the highest number of suicides, the area under Bt cotton has increased from 0.2 million hectares in 2004 to 2.88 million hectares in 2007.
Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and livelihoods.
But that requires adopting a new mantra for eradicating poverty, eliminating hunger, and creating wealth: from cocoa to chocolate, from cotton to garments, and from bauxite to aluminum.
New technologies such as the steam engine and the cotton mill launched the First Industrial Revolution, which was accompanied by historic sociopolitical developments such as urbanization, mass education, and mechanized agriculture.
But some subsidies, like cotton subsidies in the United States, are rightly emblematic of America's bad faith.
Eliminating this subsidy would help 10 million poor cotton farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Imagine a gathering of textile entrepreneurs in 1800 debating whether to introduce steam machines to mechanize their cotton mills.
Their clothes and bedcovers were made of cotton, not wool, and an open hole served as the cell’s lavatory.
Greece exports refined petroleum products, olive oil, raw cotton, and dried fruit.
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