Sentence examples for shrub from inspiring English sources

He had four hectares of the green-leaved shrub, enough to provide a living for his family of seven.That was until the weekend in mid-February when the police helicopters arrived, escorting a crop-duster that swooped low over the fields and sprayed the coca with glyphosate, a powerful agricultural weedkiller.

His village is growing the shrub under the watchful eye of D1-BP Fuel Crops, a joint venture between D1 Oils, a British biofuels firm, and BP, an energy giant.

We have come to the district of Balboa, in Cauca department, to watch a government effort to eradicate coca, the shrub from which cocaine is extracted.For several years Álvaro Uribe's government, with American aid and contractors, has used crop-spraying light aircraft to dump weedkiller on coca fields.

Back when he was a mere shrub in Texas he succeeded in turning a small victory in his first race for governor into a resounding triumph in his second.

The "wimp, wasp, weenie" and "every woman's first husband" trounced "the architect of the Massachusetts miracle" by eight points.In this section On the trail The timing of the shrub A change of mind in Austin Remembering Dukakis Ralph Nader's green bananas Buy! Cowed ReprintsThe vice-president can draw three big lessons from the Dukakis debacle.

The shrub has a more elegant rival in pongamia pinnata, or Indian birch, a silvery tree revered for its shady canopy and medicinal properties.

Among the candidates are Russian dandelion and guayule, a desert shrub found in the south-western American states and in Mexico, says Joe Walter, a tyre expert at the University of Akron in Ohio.Food byproducts are also being considered as ingredients for new tyres.

Deposits of charcoal show that the chaparral-like shrub lands roamed by dinosaurs were periodically disturbed by fires.

Behind the officers with assault rifles across their chests the shrub-covered hills loomed, a place where residents nearby said they have long suspected unspeakable things happened.

The seedheads turn brown in late summer and provide food for birds Perovskia, Russian sage, is a sub-shrub that creates a haze of soft purple-blue over silver-grey leaves and associates well with grasses.

Building more around London will not be popular with shrub-loving Conservative voters, but it is the best way to stop another mortgage binge.