Its cultivation is considered something esoteric and difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Orchids of Mexico] Reference
Brand-building is growing in importance, as is long-term cultivation and donor loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Watson: Consumer Philanthropy: This Holiday Season, You Are What You Give] Reference
The Malays are certainly not industrious; they have no need to be so, and their cultivation is rude. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
Four million acres of wheat-lands were in cultivation 25 years ago in England; today less than 2,000,000. From Wordnik.com. [Preferential Trade] Reference
Therefore, the principles of tissue culture are largely the same as those applied in cultivation of bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Further investments will boost the area under cultivation from the current 40 hectares to 200 hectares by 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Mexico Economic Report June 2003] Reference
Glebe = field in cultivation to support a specific community institution, such as the university or the Lofthall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-08] Reference
In fact, tepary cultivation is now taking place in dry areas of Africa and is being revived in southern Arizona. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Syria, 67 one of the countries that have been improved by the most early cultivation, is not unworthy of the preference. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Put another way, healthy stress is characterized by a cultivation of the “three Cs”: challenge, commitment, and control:2. From Wordnik.com. [THRIVING WITH HEART DISEASE] Reference
Heroin cultivation has rocketed in the atmosphere of lawlessness, with 90 per cent of the supplies in Europe now coming from the country. From Wordnik.com. [01/17/2006] Reference
We are told if they bought a few extra sheep or a few extra goats or put a little more land in cultivation, they were taxed to an extra extent. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine in Retrospect and Prospect] Reference
The plant does not usually form fruit in cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference
Great attention is paid to the cultivation, which is very profitable. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
By degrees the idea of cultivation subsided into that of merely pastoral care. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
576 – 580 Self-cultivation is necessary for overcoming the enemies of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The kind of cultivation which is here decried is open to the same objections as the last mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
Their cultivation is the last touch added at her finishing school ere she makes her bow to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
Union nearly five million acres are under maize cultivation, which is exactly double the area in 1911. From Wordnik.com. [An African Adventure] Reference
If people adopt particular ideas that were obtained via media exposure, this is called cultivation (Gerbner, 1967). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Or shall we say that it contributes to the enjoyment of leisure and mental cultivation, which is a third alternative?. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
The two last methods of cultivation are the most common, that is, the cultivation by metayers in the poor, and by farmers in the richer countries. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth] Reference
Beyond the sand-hills, the villages, and the cultivation is a stony plain extending for sixteen miles, a gradual upward slant to a range of mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Traces of this kind of cultivation are found in various parts of the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
This kind of cultivation of the walled garden is exactly what keeps me in Facebook. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook Isn’t A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There] Reference
At the beginning of training, use the oxen only for light work, such as cultivation and light transport. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
This kind of cultivation, at once mythic and mundane, will accelerate our global guardianship into warp drive. '. From Wordnik.com. [Pax Gaia: Putting All the Peaces Together] Reference
And this kind of cultivation, at once mythic and mundane, will accelerate our global guardianship into warp drive. From Wordnik.com. [Pax Gaia: Putting All the Peaces Together] Reference
About "cultivation": I would be certainly satisfied with "construction" instead, as that term has an established history. From Wordnik.com. [Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games] Reference
My garden will always require some "cultivation", but it will never require e.g. tilling, or excessive amounts of watering or poisons. From Wordnik.com. [Growing a Beautiful Edible Landscape in an Urban Neighborhood] Reference
Nor is the difference less striking in the mode of cultivation which is purified. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
Are our actions-at least the "cultivation" of Muslim moderates-so pivotal in this struggle?. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
A man is bound to give himself and his family the utmost of every kind of cultivation that is possible to him without neglecting higher ends. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
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