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  • Above all, Delhi needs to focus on creating an investment en vironment that encourages entrepreneurs to tackle the almost criminal wastage of food and other perishable products in the supply chain from farm to kitchen.

    Fixing India's Prices Arvind Singhal 2010

  • She, on the other hand, was in a totally foreign vironment.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • The phrase “surroundings and events” has been used in the preceding para - graph in an attempt to convey the multiplicity and complexity of the factors covered by the word “en - vironment.”

    ENVIRONMENT REN 1968

  • Evolu - tion is said to be progressive when it produces types that are more dominant or varied and abundant; have greater control over the environment and greater in - dependence of its chances and changes; or develop powers of awareness which enable them to respond with greater plasticity and discrimination to their en - vironment.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968

  • Page 132, Volume 2 erable interest in analyzing the semantics of environ - mental theory, and the meaning of such words as “en - vironment,” “possibilism,” and “determinism.”

    ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968

  • Yet these children, despite their completely artificial en - vironment, seemed happy and well, and quite unconscious of all the things which they had missed.

    The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951

  • The slightly abnormal circumstances in which men live in the countries where life is primitive or the en-vironment alien to them, emphasizes their ordinariness so that it gains a character of its own; and when they are in themselves extraordinary, which of course they sometimes are, the want of the usual restraints permits them to develop their kinks with a freedom that in more civilized communities can be but hardly won.

    The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938

  • Mr. Wrenn had been jealous at first, but when he learned from Morton the theory that even a Pete was a "victim of 'vironment" he went out for knowing him quite systematically.

    Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Mr. Wrenn had been jealous at first, but when he learned from Morton the theory that even a Pete was a "victim of 'vironment" he went out for knowing him quite systematically.

    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

  • Allentown is getting a life, or L.I.F.E. It stands for Learning in a Functional E.vironment.

    WFMZ.com - Local News 2010

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