Sentence examples for its crop from inspiring English sources

But, since the idea of a system is also self-perpetuation, and since the French system aims, above all, at regenerating its crop of auteurs, it's worth considering whether the French way of financing is well-suited to fostering the talent of young filmmakers.

That's why Switzerland's Novartis, which is also reportedly a bidder for the DuPont division, spun off its crop division, merging it with that of AstraZeneca.

In June, Russia was predicting a loss of just a few million metric tons due to hot weather, but by August it announced it would lose about one-fifth of its crop.

Now that the United States is using 40 percent of its crop to make biofuel, it is not surprising that tortilla prices have doubled in Guatemala, which imports nearly half of its corn.

This large pigeon is a ground feeder, eating seeds, grains, and berries; it has been known to hold more than 60 acorns in its crop.

Every year yields its crop of records.

One of the pigeons I shot had these big white nuts in its crop.

Soon after, the criminals cleared the house of its crop and equipment, escaping conviction.

(Such goods actually account for only a seventh of the firm's $14.2 billion in annual sales, as does its crop-protection business).

Eager for good results on at least one battlefront, the Bush administration has lately been pointing to its success in the war on drugs, specifically its crop-eradication plan in Colombia.

This posed a problem for Kieran Walsh, its crop-health adviser, who was accustomed to collecting soil and plant samples manually and scrutinizing them for signs of infestation and illness.