Grain
in sentence
359 examples of Grain in a sentence
But it is a small grain, and one on which the average uninsured depositor, like the average tourist in a game park, would be ill-advised to rely.
Worldwide economic growth is already slowing under the pressures of $135-per-barrel oil and
grain
prices that have more than doubled in the past year.
In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of
grain
per hectare in use, while Sub-Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms per hectare.
But poverty, creaking supply chains, rampant food waste, and badly formulated, poorly executed policies, such as rigid subsidies for
grain
farmers, prevent millions from receiving their share.
But then, in 1846, the Conservative Party split over curtailing protective tariffs for grain, which was bad for the party’s rural farming base, but good for manufacturing, and for society generally.
These leaders seemed to be working against the grain, but the
grain
itself was about to change direction.
Unlike Adenauer, Brandt, and de Gaulle, Blair may really be going against the
grain
of his people rather than anticipating a changing general view.
For many developing countries, high oil and food prices represent a triple threat: not only do importing countries have to pay more for grain, they have to pay more to bring it to their countries and still more to deliver it to consumers who may live a long distance from ports.
It might not be so bad if there were even a
grain
of truth to trickle-down economics – the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top.
Meanwhile, the production of soy – the world’s most important animal-feed
grain
– rose from 130 million tons in 1996 to 270 million tons in 2015, with 80% of output going to meat production, especially in China (70 million tons) and Europe (31 million tons).
As it stands now, large-scale industrial meat producers are profiting extensively from EU subsidies; but these subsidies could be redirected as investments in decentralized meat and
grain
production chains that adhere to a more sustainable model.
Indeed, China is believed to supply about 70% of the North's oil, and has doubled its sales of
grain
and vegetables.
Individual farmers were taxed until they entered the collective, and collective farms were allowed to seize individual farmers’ seed grain, used to plant the next year's harvest.
One of them cut off all supplies to communities that failed to make their
grain
quotas.
Meanwhile, the Communists took whatever food they could find, as one peasant remembered, “down to the last little grain,” and in early 1933 the borders of Soviet Ukraine were sealed so that the starving could not seek help.
More than five million people starved to death or died of hunger-related disease in the USSR in the early 1930’s, 3.3 million of them in Ukraine, of which about three million would have survived had Stalin simply ceased requisitions and exports for a few months and granted people access to
grain
stores.
The policy is rooted in central planning, which, three decades ago, led to artificially low prices and, in turn, to shortages of basic necessities and key production inputs, such as
grain
and steel.
So maybe we should take the IMF’s more recent reports, which are full of dark warnings, with a
grain
of salt.
In order to ensure that their animals gain weight rapidly, meat producers feed them grain, rather than the grass that they would naturally consume – an approach that is a major source of pressure on
grain
production, natural resources, and the environment.
Everything about the production method is geared towards turning live animals into machines for converting
grain
into meat or eggs at the lowest possible cost.
For a start, it relies on the use of fossil fuel energy to light and ventilate the sheds, and to transport the
grain
eaten by the chickens.
When this grain, which humans could eat directly, is fed to chickens, they use some of it to create bones and feathers and other body parts that we cannot eat.
But, during the last few decades of the century, European tariff rates fell substantially, largely in response to the United Kingdom’s unilateral repeal of the Corn Laws, which had imposed substantial tariffs on imported
grain.
Rumsfeld’s mistrust of the European approach contains a
grain
of truth.
In fact, the costs and benefits of freer trade are highly contested by economists, and these numbers have to be taken with a
grain
of salt, not as reliable inputs for policymakers.
In South America’s
grain
belt, GPS-guided machinery is diminishing the need for farmhands, even as output increases.
As they adjust to lower prices for oil, metals, and
grain
– and the eventual upturn in global interest rates – they will have to pursue productivity-enhancing reforms.
There is also a
grain
of truth in the connection between hurricanes and global warming: the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expects stronger but fewer hurricanes toward the end of this century.
So Carter worked the phones, trying to persuade Iowa’s farmers to endorse an embargo on
grain
exports to the Soviet Union.
Eating fewer animal products would reduce food prices as well, because cattle are fed on
grain.
Back
Next
Related words
Which
There
Would
Against
Could
Truth
About
Their
Going
Farmers
People
Other
Should
Production
Three
Prices
First
World
Where
Little
