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As a pastoral theologian, I applaud texts that look realistically at the emotive world.
The cemetery grounds border pastureland, and visitors share the pastoral settings with horses, Texas longhorns and occasionally, wild deer.
The proper pastoral response would have been to accept it and drink it happily, or pour it on the aspidistra.
Runholders had received collectively 58 per cent of the reformed pastoral estate as freehold.
In this odd urban pastoral, people wander about London, have lunch, try to make assignations, wake up with hangovers and never get anywhere.
In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.
I learned to appreciate the plain people, the pastoral nature of south-central Pennsylvania and the allure of Luddism.
Proceeds in excess of 1000 were donated to Colaiste Lorcain Parent's Association to be used for the pastoral care of pupils.
They have accepted hearsay, endorsed scurrilous attacks, and walked away from their responsibilities as pastoral shepherds and teachers.
The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history.
From Inchnadamph, the grey screes of Conival's upper tiers contrast starkly with the lush pastoral tones of Gleann Dubh below.
The teeter-tottering vocal hypnotizes as the pitch leaps up and down in a slow, pastoral drawl.
Appropriate subject matter for art could include pastoral scenes, landscapes, florals or anything else that is calming and appealing.
Pupils benefit from the vibrant atmosphere, excellent pastoral care and a strong academic tradition.
One of the prime functions of a teacher is pastoral care, and students assume that their professors will offer moral instruction and guidance.
A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
He has been a very active teacher in terms of his classroom responsibilities and his pastoral responsibilities.
A clerical secretary could revoke the permit of a clergyman to do pastoral work.
His publications are abundant and diverse, and one sees in them a concern not only for history and theology, but also for pastoral work.
Their members took the traditional monastic vows, but devoted their lives to pastoral work, aiming to produce a well-instructed and devout laity.
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From the beginning, his reflection was articulated in the context of pastoral work and evangelization.
His pastoral work, letters, and published prayers demonstrate his compassion for the sick, his ear for the troubled.
When anticlerical legislation sought to curb the power of the clergy institutionally, nuns and priests made pastoral work welfare work.
The friars lived by begging, mostly in towns, where they were best placed to engage in their principal vocations, pastoral work and preaching.
For over ten years his pastoral work was always marked by gentleness, thoughtfulness and sensitivity, especially to those in trouble.
Graduates will be eligible to study for a Higher Diploma in educational or chaplaincy studies for a career in education or pastoral work.
The presence of evangelical contributors is interesting, and the number of those principally engaged in pastoral work is also notable.
He combines his pastoral work at diocesan and national level with a keen interest in gardening.
The prospect thus stands in direct, temporal opposition to the pastoral or Arcadian mode.
Recalling the pastoral works of Homer Watson, her shots of rolling, sunbathed hills effectively showcase her background in still photography.
The older, more cynical man seems far removed from the enthusiastic young writer who delights in evoking scenes of pastoral Irish life.
This is most evident in Sunset Song, the swelling overture to the Quair, the words rolling out like a pastoral symphony.
At the simplest level this is knowing what an oboe sounds like and why it is associated with pastoral music.
Poems by Shin Seok-jeong are peaceful, pastoral pieces about desires to live in paradise and his love toward his dear mother.
It portrays pastoral scenes such as the labours of the months, wildlife, and putti fishing.
Above the fireplace was a portrait of a pastoral scene with a hunting party in the middle.
An additional untitled track appears on my copy, delicately picked strings give a warm, fragile romantic pastoral glossiness throughout.
Hall's pieces are pastoral, evoking the chirrup of birds who have learnt the song of car alarms, and the grunt of a badly maintained bus.
Next, they find volumes of poetry many of which romanticize pastoral themes and shepherding.
Unlike communities associated with agriculture and industry, the identities of pastoral groups have been far more elastic.
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Bekan is a pleasant pastoral countryside, as fine as you will fine the length and breadth of Ireland and its cattle and stock measure up.
The French countryside is still pastoral and not all of it is as intensively cultivated as ours.
There are drawbacks, but if you like a pastoral life, with rural pastimes, this is the place.
Regent's Park lay like pastoral acres of countryside or the royal hunting ground it once was, its lake a broken piece of mirror.
The theory envisaged a simple agrarian and pastoral world inhabited by four kinds of people.
Environmental degradation associated with agricultural and pastoral practices has compounded the rural crisis.
The pastoral scenes of country life, both winter and summer, and imagined estates with beautiful homes are filled with light and hope.
Furthermore, the conversion of Algerian land to industrial-scale wheat farming threatened the pastoral way of life of the native population.
There was a tendency for communities to view themselves as corporate groups rather than agricultural communities or pastoral hinterlands.
European settlers coming to Nelson were looking for flat land which could quickly be developed into pastoral farms.
So I take it whatever land is available for pastoral uses given the recent drought is actually being covered by this weed?
The protection and regeneration programs led to the resumption of pastoral land in the catchment area.
With respect to pastoral leases under the Land Act, the provisions are substantially the same.
Those lands comprise approximately 245 hectares of predominantly pastoral land.
He discovered no gold, no minerals, no water, no worthwhile pastoral lands nor anything else of value.
The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
In 1859 Samuel went out exploring for new pastoral land in the far north of South Australia.
Sometimes I wish that I could make a place on this pastoral land for my old parents to live, digging soil and growing vegetables and fruit.
We encourage the moves currently afoot to create a single pastoral organisation covering sheep, cattle, deer, and goats, funded by a single levy.
The expedition was a great success and once and for all proved that there was no inland sea but plenty of land suitable for pastoral development.
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They will also increase lay participation in the running of the church through parish pastoral councils.
In the mainline churches, certain parishes have refused pastoral care to victims and their families.
The pathways are theology, pastoral studies, social admin, law, politics and economics.
His ideas and their realization in church social service, mission, pastoral care, liturgy, education, and homiletics come from one vision.
Yet his decade of pastoral ministry at Durham also left a communal and homiletic legacy that has not received the recognition it deserves.
This is manifested with great clarity in the Holy Father's pontificate, with his pastoral visits, his meetings.
From there he eventually became involved in the pastoral industry and overlanded his sheep to South Australia.
The piece begins with an unobtrusive, chant-like unison across the strings, which develops with pastoral grace.
We heard of the struggle of the pastoral counselor, poorly equipped for the task at hand, and yet pushed to provide more pastoral care.
Agriculture is mainly pastoral, but recent droughts have decimated cattle herds.
John Paul traces his pastoral concern for the young back to his work with them soon after he was ordained a priest.
These ministries have been related to liturgical, pastoral, catechetical, teaching, missionary, and social tasks.
Deacons following their gifts are involved in liturgical, catechetical, pastoral, and administrative duties.
The room was hung with pictures of pastoral scenes and paintings inspired by the cult of Isis, who is symbolized by a cow.
Boccaccio's poem, a pastoral romance in rhymed octaves, has been aptly described as a hymn to nature.
Many policemen, stationmasters, teachers, church ministers and pastoral workers kept photographic records of their experiences in the north.
And the corollary is that people on the ground are best placed to deal with the complexity of pastoral need.
We have seen a change over the last probably 10 or so years to a certainly more businesslike approach to pastoral enterprises.
Their vocational and pastoral activities formed an integral and intimate part of diocesan life.
As benign and pastoral as this scene might appear, areas of virga can produce 65-knot columns of downward tumbling air mass.
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Contentious issues were dealt with in a non-confrontational manner at a pastoral leaseholders forum held in Carnarvon at the weekend.
The Pope's vicar or deputy for Rome, Cardinal Camillo Luini, also continues in his functions of providing for the pastoral needs of the city.
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics.
Several of their sons made their way up north and found jobs on pastoral stations or at some of the mining towns.
It is in this Southern house that the ordered, Southern pastoral is exposed as an unweeded garden.
That distinction has sometimes been lost on denominational officials eager to provide any kind of pastoral leadership to unserved congregations.
The revival helped to create an image of a pastoral, mythic, unmodernized Ireland that influenced subsequent writers and artists.
Despite their pastoral name, the sound is confident and expansive, tight as a drum and overlaid with a variety of keyboard boings.
There is no escape from violence in either sphere, no pastoral alternative to the bleakness of the run-down city.
The frequent turnover on pastoral staffs led churches to experience upheaval and decline.
Cultural centers and libraries promote the Mongolian language and cultural productions in cities, towns, and even in the pastoral areas.
He is also extremely discreet at the confessional, by the sickbed, in pastoral conversation.
Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office.
Stephens veils the pastoral subjects with milky washes that streak the surface, and a brown glaze that drips languorously down it.
Emerson's Transcendentalism drew on German idealism and English pastoral poetry.
I'm all sampling strings and accordions, almost to where it brings up visions of a pastoral French landscape.
The absence of dramatic action was of little account to audiences used to the lyrical pastoral play.
If that lease wants to go through the middle of my lease, which gives me two pastoral leases, there is no compulsory acquisition.
Does it matter if one of her professors, himself a rabbi, teaches with an eye toward pastoral work?
Chris Falls, who has 25 years in the industry, is keen to improve the wages and conditions of his fellow shearers and other pastoral workers.
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The bishops are finalising the draft of a pastoral letter which will be read at masses in all 26 dioceses next weekend.
I felt right at home, for example, with the U.S. bishops' pastoral letters on the economy, nuclear arms, and capital punishment.
Fr. Dunne, since moving to Tinryland in 1989, became very well respected in the parish for his pastoral and caring ministry.
Key innovators were often British settlers, but Afrikaners, still the predominant landowners, were drawn into the commercial pastoral economy.
The main form of agriculture was pastoral with cattle and sheep being grazed on unenclosed lands.
They interacted with the foraging and pastoral people who were in South Africa first, the Khoi and the San.
The pastoral Khoisan instrumentation is also a dominating presence, effectively reflecting the film's South African setting.
I'd have sworn he was still burning the way his body shone. Barr's tone is homely, gnarled, wintrily pastoral.
When in 1861 a Louisiana bishop wrote a pastoral letter adopting the slaveholders' view on race, he was sharply censured by Rome.
He realized that he could continue to shepherd his people by adopting St. Paul's strategy of writing pastoral letters from prison.
Without further qualification, his position will guarantee that the bishops' pastoral letters will not move hearts and minds.
Modern scholarship has done much to rescue the pastoral reputation and moral seriousness of the clergy and their lay supporters at all levels.
In some pastoral areas, the Ewenki believe in Lamaism, the Tibetan form of Buddhism adopted by the majority of Mongols.
Perhaps the book helped him to relieve a conscience burdened by the knowledge that he was not carrying out the pastoral duties of his benefice.
Our congregations will offer their practical and pastoral resources to bind up the wounds of the nation.
Alongside pastoral fervor for souls, the missionaries zealously adhered to their French allegiance.
The bishop of my own diocese acknowledged as much in his pastoral letter on the subject.
His writings begin to show a drift toward Zwinglian theology, while retaining the strong pastoral interest for which he had become famous.
Section 248 assumes that there are some creatures which are pastoral leases which are not exclusive pastoral leases.
The idealized space of the pastoral is used to provide a locus amoenus for someone who eventually dominates all oral discourse within it.
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The distant modulation evokes the pastoral and, being thus an allusion, pleases those who recognise it.
Although there is a reluctance to admit it, the liberal interpretation is largely confessional and pastoral in its tone and direction.
His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid.
Very little gold was found but more important was the fact that rich pastoral country was discovered.
In 1975, he was given responsibility for the pastoral care of Dublin pilgrims during the HolyYear in Rome.
Other areas praised by the Ofsted team include her leadership as head, and the pastoral care of pupils.
These were of relatively good quality and well suited to arable cultivation, but suited also to pastoral husbandry.
In contrast, in Study 4 only 3 of the 13 pastoral care teachers conducting the program were trained by the psychologist.
From these talks we chose the pastoral and metalliferous mining industries to begin our campaign to improve minimum standards.
In addition the farming and pastoral lobbies had a strong influence on government policy making at both federal and state levels.
These include portraits, landscapes, pastoral scenes and prints.
The meagre resources of Queen Anne's Bounty could not adequately address the internal structural problems of the church, which seriously hampered its pastoral efficiency.
It might be, if the claimants have pastoral or farming skills and can reasonably be expected to build productive enterprises on that land if given half a chance.
Ms. Murphy, who was a daily Mass goer and active member of her parish's pastoral council, was driving to work in a supermarket in Dungarvan when the accident occurred.
However his greatest wish was to continue his pastoral work in Ghana.
He says the wool clip in pastoral areas is much better this year than last year when the drought was in full swing and quality has markedly improved.
The ballad form, which was most popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, often involved pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither.
They moved north and east forcing the government to resume pastoral leases and resurvey and subdivide them for agricultural blocks and new towns to service them.
It is certainly not my intention to suggest that the Mosaic plan could be used as an exact blueprint in a society that has moved past the pastoral or agricultural stage.
He is to be admired for his kindness and genuine pastoral concern for all the members of his flock.
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In addition to the normal guitars, drums etc, roadies also brought out a number of tree branches, which were dotted liberally around the stage, giving it a pastoral feel.
But among my objects of praise today are the authors of these essays, gifted lay and pastoral leaders, musicians, liturgiologists, professors, colleagues, friends.
The emphasis on the pastoral in Gregory Thompson's new production of As You Like It at the Swan is evident from the moment the audience enters the auditorium.
There are no easy ways to screen fake from genuine pastoral care or to distinguish the spiritual agency from the business-oriented, televangelical station.
The culture of the terramare produced a systematic and intensive agricultural and pastoral exploitation of the environment and caused heavy deforestation.
Yet, in spite of historiographical shifts, and the steady drift of population to the cities, pastoral Australia retains a treasured place in the national imagination.
The craze for the pastoral even reached the Court, where queen Marie-Antoinette dressed herself and her courtiers up as shepherds and shepherdesses.
We then hummed along more pastoral roads, stopping at a roadstand to buy kilos of juicy black cherries fresh from the trees, and apples and honey and newly-baked apple cake.
The carriage drivers insist that a great majority of their horses live to enjoy a pastoral retirement.
It is a novel of suspense and secrets, a pastoral novel that slowly tears the pastoral apart.
For most of the year, pastoral Pag is home to roughly eight thousand residents and thirty thousand indigenous sheep.
Cryptically, he added that he would like women to have more leadership roles in administrative and pastoral activities.
If you have any fantasies about a pastoral past full of sunshine and sweet moments, unsullied by the grim industrial monuments of the current day, this should disabuse you.
A further important measure was the Crown Lands Occupation Act of 1836, which provided for the issuing of occupation licences for pastoral purposes on unsurveyed crown land.
Great souled priests full of wise counsel and abundant pastoral mercies.
Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
The book is intended-and it succeeds admirably-as a sourcebook to inform and inspire mental health, pastoral, and human-service professionals of all disciplines.
Economic geography supposedly has a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from agrarian and pastoral economies to resource utilization and changes in land use.
English Spenserians used pastoral poetry as a vehicle to express their discontent with Jacobean and Caroline court practices and ecclesiastical innovations.
Thick electric guitar cuts in on the refrain, a false start that teases at a closing firestorm, but shuts down instead, bowing to the pastoral glow of the verses.
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You've also got the squattocracy in this novel, and the huge fortunes which were being made in the pastoral country around Melbourne and around Geelong.
Bishops in England were likewise expected to fulfil a pastoral role.
The early Jacobean masque's mediation of royal power via a dialectic of revelation and mystery was superseded by a Caroline emphasis on marital love and pastoral retreat.
The problem, from a pastoral point of view, may indeed be a real one, but the inner laws of liturgy should not be altered for contemporary catechetical purposes.
I dream of pastoral pleasantries and gently susurrant ocean breezes.
Along with their music and evangelistic ministry, Craig and Donna have been involved in church planting and pastoral ministry for over three decades.
If anyone has a problem about transport they are advised to get in touch with any member of the parish pastoral council or phone the parochial house.
It was proclaimed a colony separate from New South Wales only in 1859, by which time the pastoral land in the southern states had been swallowed up.
In the early years, Tom focussed on developing the land and building his sheep and cattle business into a pastoral empire worth tens of millions of dollars.
The tourism industry and Aboriginal groups were well represented with both interest groups expressing their concerns over access to pastoral land.
The pastoral Fulani move about with their cattle for much of the year.
After the collapse of the state in 1991 and following a brief period of conflict, most of the former interclan conflicts over pastoral land were stabilized.
The two rooms, the first dedicated to work and the second to contemplation, played on the belief that the nymphs themselves engaged in the simple occupations of pastoral life.
On this moderate-to-strenuous trip, we'll walk the pastoral lowland glens along the banks of exquisite Loch Lomond to the great Scottish Highlands.
The air is more pastoral and bucolic than in nearby hamlets.
The rich volcanic soil combines with a generous rainfall and cool, brisk climate to offer the Amhara a stable agricultural and pastoral existence.
The rural district of Sheikhupur, about 30 miles east of the ancient city of Lahore, is a lush, green, pastoral landscape of rice fields and eucalyptus groves.
Yes, people see the problem in the pastoral country as being quite different from in the agricultural area, but in many ways it's the same kind of process.
There are also overtly romantic and pastoral images as well.
This has painted a very different picture of pastoral life for many.
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It was also adapted for inclusion in many dramatic works and ballets by such composers as Lully, Campra, and especially Rameau, and was often associated with pastoral scenes.
An idyllic pastoral quality is evoked by two men enjoying the view from the shore of Rocky Neck in the foreground, while a third walks by with his dog and two sheep.
Outside the city, though, his work took on the very different character evident here, combining the lessons of Europe with the pastoral romanticism of Samuel Palmer.
So there is that history of pastoral work, education, teaching women to read and, eventually, helping women to read the Gospels in the vernacular.
As part of her pastoral work with St James, she also carried out communion at three Clitheroe nursing homes, Castleford, Pendle Court and Clitheroe Nursing Home.
He helped set up churches in Lima and also lived in Arequipa, a city of a million people 8,000 feet up in the Andes, where he was involved in pastoral work.
It is certainly a book to be read by those entering the ministry and by all pastors seeking to be refreshed and re-focused in their preaching and pastoral work.
I am thinking, in particular, of persons in religious orders but who are not necessarily engaged in pastoral work of the kind that your client is concerned.
Holloway said he saw the evidence of this despair in his pastoral work, as well as in social ills such as violence, drug use and the high levels of suicide among young men.
But it does not have to be that way, according to one Blackburn school which has confirmed its place at the forefront of pastoral care for its students.
A recent Ofsted report praised the pastoral support pupils are given.
Monitoring of pupils at all levels is exceptionally effective while pastoral care and extra-curricular activities, including music and sport, were also praised.
He stated the class of 2003 will be remembered for their good humour, honesty and sincerity and their contribution to the pastoral care of younger students.
In 1991, almost ten years after the bishops had attempted to draft the pastoral letter, the six bishops involved were summoned to the Vatican to explain themselves.
The Inca people were a pastoral tribe in the Cusco area around the 12th century.
An eclogue is a short pastoral poem that is in the form of a dialogue or soliloquy.
His pastoral opera The Gentle Shepherd was one of the most influential works of the era.
The county is on the western edge of England which has been historically pastoral as opposed to the east which was more arable.
He led the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza, which would be later be used by Robert Burns as a poetic form.
Only men are allowed to take holy orders, although deaconesses had both liturgical and pastoral functions within the church.
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Faced with growing evangelistic and pastoral responsibilities, Wesley and Whitefield appointed lay preachers and leaders.
It deserves attention, not only in the scholarly but above all in the pastoral and catechetical worlds.
Somalis have well developed pastoral culture where complete system of life and governance has been refined.
Carrollton Avenue runs like a plumb line along western fringes of the city, from the leafy streets of Uptown on out to pastoral City Park.
Cows are a form of currency for the seminomadic and mainly pastoral people of south Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
Toile de jouy is a fabric which features a repeated pattern depicting a complex scene, usual pastoral in nature.
His The Queenes Arcadia and Hymens Triumph are both billed as pastoral tragicomedies and were both acted before and dedicated to Queen Anne.
Cameroon boasts of 24 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 816 parishes and 3,630 pastoral centres of other kinds.
The Tuaregs are nomadic pastoral people in North Africa and are from Berber descent.
You might have read the stories about Monsignor Joseph Creegan, a man of the cloth who took his pastoral duties a wee bitty too seriously.
Her favorite painting in the collection is a pastoral landscape.
Derek Jarman's A Journey to Avebury is a film showing a pastoral idyll of cows and fields, filmed on a jerking camera in a yellowy light.
In 1840, the Falklands became a Crown colony, and Scottish settlers subsequently established an official pastoral community.
Seafarers arriving at the port are given welfare and pastoral assistance by seafarers charity Apostleship of the Sea.
The sisters were involved in pastoral and educational work and the care of the cathedral and St Paul's Church.
Seafarers' welfare organisation, Apostleship of the Sea has a port chaplain in Aberdeen to offer practical and pastoral support to them.
There should be well-regarded and informed pastoral priests and nuns included.
The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido.
On the second day of his pastoral tour of Aley, the Patriarch lauded the historical ties between the Maronite Patriarchate and the Arslan family.
It is also the era that saw a serious competition over the proper model for the pastoral.
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At this time, Aryan society consisted of largely tribal and pastoral groups, distinct from the Harappan urbanisation which had been abandoned.
Throughout this period, the economy was mainly pastoral and money generally not used.
Without the Mass and pastoral care, yeomen, artisans and husbandmen fell into conformism.
All of those who could afford it left the city, but Zwingli remained and continued his pastoral duties.
In addition to burlesque plays, operas and burlettas, the Italians invented two other species. of drama, pastoral and rustic plays.
Brecht argues that Luther's mistake was not that he gave private pastoral advice, but that he miscalculated the political implications.
The bishop outlined the church's views in a pastoral letter.
For pastoral reasons, this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite.
Their farming way of life was very different from the pastoral nomadism of the Mongols and the Khitans on the steppes.
The detailed and idealized paintings also typically depict a pastoral setting.
Personal prelatures exist to carry out specific pastoral missions within the Church worldwide.
The Gaetulians were less settled, with predominantly pastoral elements, and lived in the near south on the margins of the Sahara.
In parts of the arid south and west, pastoral families may replace rice with maize, cassava, or curds made from fermented zebu milk.
Both deities are closely affiliated with goats and were worshipped as pastoral deities.
Another association is that pastoral societies are relatively more often patrilineal compared to horticultural societies.
Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.
Some archaeologists believed it sprang from central Europe while others saw an influence from nomadic pastoral societies of the steppes.
Today, French contains approximately 150 to 180 words known to be of Gaulish origin, most of which concern pastoral or daily activity.
As with pastoral societies, surplus food leads to a more complex division of labor.
These societies have a level of technology and complexity similar to pastoral societies.
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Over time emerge hereditary chieftainships, the typical form of government in pastoral societies.
Because their food supply is far more reliable, pastoral societies can support larger populations.
Rather than searching for food on a daily basis, members of a pastoral society rely on domesticated herd animals to meet their food needs.
Agricultural life afforded securities that pastoral life could not, and sedentary farming populations grew faster than nomadic.
These subdivisions are hunting and gathering, pastoral, horticultural, agricultural, and feudal.
The two saints embraced, held long converse, and exchanged their pastoral staves.
In areas where wolves inhabit pastoral areas, the parasites can be spread to livestock.
It is Jonson's only pastoral drama, it was written in sophisticated verse and included supernatural action and characters.
Climate changes or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara.
The Theological Department provided studies in ecclesiastical history, pastoral theology and Exegesis of testaments.
The rest of the Fenland was dedicated to pastoral farming, fishing, fowling and the harvesting of reeds or sedge for thatch.
He placed great weight upon pastoral commitment, above all popular preaching by the endowed staff.
While harsh, the land allowed for a pastoral farming life familiar to the Norse.
The Chaplain is responsible for the pastoral care of the cathedral, under the oversight of the Canon Pastor.
Salvation Army pastoral care counsellors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals.
Secondly there was an employment shortage in farming due to the call of better paid industrial work, and pastoral land was less work intensive.
Historically, raising livestock was part of a nomadic or pastoral form of material culture.
There are over 100 congregations throughout Scotland, one in London and three pastoral charges in North America.
These wilding conifers are a serious environmental issue causing problems for pastoral farming and for conservation.
He evaluated and approved men who were not ordained by the Anglican Church to preach and do pastoral work.
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Methodist presbyters are usually given pastoral charge of several local churches in a circuit.
This pastoral lifestyle is in sharp contrast to some of the more exotic interpretations of the culture of the Skara Brae people.
The term Holy See refers not to the Vatican state but to the Pope's spiritual and pastoral governance, largely exercised through the Roman Curia.
Parishes are responsible for the day to day celebration of the sacraments and pastoral care of the laity.
There are four main seasons around which pastoral and agricultural life revolve, and these are dictated by shifts in the wind patterns.
Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
This Toronto group plays multitextured instrumentals that veer from clangy turbulence to pastoral, acoustic daydreams.
Their work was pastoral, evangelistic, literary and educational.
The harlequinade ceases for the moment, and a two-character tragedy begins with the shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, whose names derive from ancient pastoral poetry.
As the grain elevator and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape.
The uplands are surrounded by more fertile, mainly pastoral farmland.
They are teachers, childcare workers, social workers, counselors, pastoral ministers, retreat ministers, religious educators, school administrators, and much more.
The pastoral economy meant that hides and leather were readily available.
From records of pastoral visits, it is evident that Upper Guineans in Amazonia held onto many of the same spiritist beliefs that they had known across the ocean.
Particularly in pastoral mountain peoples, social organization tends to hinge primarily on familial identification, not a wider collective identity.
Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum.
The major transition, however, was to pastoral agriculture based on sheep.
The legislation of Henry VIII effectively establishing the independence from Rome of the Church of England, did not alter its constitutional or pastoral structures.
Genres like epic poetry, pastoral verse, and the endless use of characters and themes from Greek mythology left a deep mark on literature of the Western World.
Saharan rock art of cattle and herdsmen suggests the presence of a cattle cult like those found in Sudan and other pastoral societies in Africa today.
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The colleges dominate the residential, social, sporting, and pastoral functions within the university, and there is heavy student involvement in their operation.
Since 2000, some conservative Global South provinces have appointed missionary bishops to the United States and Canada to provide pastoral oversight to disaffected Anglicans.
Alfred's ultimate responsibility was the pastoral care of his people.
It is the white Martagon lily and it makes a stunning picture set against the dark greens of a shady garden or an evocative pastoral scene in a more open setting.
His early English paintings, mainly mythological or religious scenes, or portraits set in a pastoral landscape, show influences from Anthony van Dyck and the Dutch baroque.
Mutton used to be an important part of Hungarian cuisine due to strong pastoral traditions but began to be increasingly looked down on with the spread of urbanisation.
Farming is more pastoral than the arable found in the north of the county.
Somali poetry depicts humans interactions, pastoral animals, beasts on the prowl, and other natural things such the rain, celestial events and historic events of significance.
In 1993 a pastoral agreement was concluded on the basis of can.
Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems, and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing.
He also composed cantatas in pastoral style for musical gatherings in the palaces of cardinals Pietro Ottoboni, Benedetto Pamphili and Carlo Colonna.
Edward Lettic, who was relieved of his pastoral duties last weekend after an allegation of sexual misconduct was made against the longtime clergyman.
The recovery of European wolf populations began after the 1950s, when traditional pastoral and rural economies declined and thus removed the need to heavily persecute wolves.
The clerical hierarchy of the renascent church should repristinate itself through a dedication to pastoral service in imitation of Peter and Paul.
In the plantation period, shallow wells, supplemented by rainwater collected in cisterns, provided sufficient water for the pastoral lifestyle of the small population.
To get at this, we move to Luther's comments on translation and interpretation and his pastoral use of the Rule in the form of the Apostles' Creed.
Seafarers welfare charity, Apostleship of the Sea, which provides practical and pastoral support to seafarers, has a port chaplain based at the port.
The drier land in the Vale of York, away from the river valleys, would have been extensively cleared for pastoral farming and small scale cropping before the Roman era.
Jenner was an accomplished minor poet, whose pastoral verse in the Thomsonian tradition benefits from the detailed observation he practiced as a natural historian.
Admittedly some of Larkin's early poems tend to be similar to Wright's imperfect pastorals in their tendency to aestheticize that which is not usually considered pastoral.

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