Sentence examples for local acreage from inspiring English sources

Some of the book's most memorable moments have the stray, startling illuminations of sparks thrown off a forge, as in "A Shiver," about a sledgehammer: If a poet's gradual settling on a voice and subject matter is a kind of homesteading (a proud claim to a certain local acreage), it is also, almost inevitably, a filing of a quit-claim deed: certain topics are off limits.

This is a 234percentt increase over the acreage in local land trusts a decade ago, according to the Land Trust Alliance, which promotes voluntary land conservation.

I see myself as a new breed of green fisherman, who have shifted from hunter-gatherers trolling the seas in search of declining fish stocks, to ocean-based farmers, sustainably growing shellfish on small plots of ocean acreage for local markets.

For instance, just a short drive from Sukenya, the company &Beyond leases acreage from a local community on which they operate tours.

By buying up and protecting acreage and working with local farmers to develop mutually beneficial pollution abatement programs on their farms, the city avoided the exorbitant and ongoing costs of a filtration plant, and today residents enjoy some of the nation's highest quality drinking water from the Cat-Del watershed, unfiltered and safe -- even when the power goes out.

Its dusty main street is lined with concrete homes and old men sipping rum in the afternoons, and its tidy government health clinic is populated by workers from the big collective farm, outside of town, whose acreage once belonged to a local grandee with American ties, but which, since 1959, has been owned by the state.

The one exception was an island resort that is large in acreage and patronised by both local residents and tourists.

Avirulent genotypes will therefore usually persist in the pathogen population as long as the selection pressure exerted by the hosts is low (i.e., resistant hosts occupy a low fraction of the host acreage) or gene flow continuously brings into local populations genotypes maladapted to the local resistant hosts.

The current case was brought by a local village, Kake, which sought to preserve the acreage for recreational use.

For example, large hog and chicken farms produce enormous amounts of manure in limited acreage, and spills can quickly degrade local water and soil.

One local grower, Coke Farms, had to increase its acreage devoted to organic strawberries by more than 30% "because they couldn't keep up with us," he says.