Example sentences for: agribusiness

How can you use “agribusiness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Father Hidalgo, during the Mexican War of Independence; Emiliano Zapata, during the Mexican Revolution; and César Chávez, during his battle for farmworkers’ rights against California agribusiness, all carried the emblem of La Virgen de Guadalupe.

  • The one interesting element of that reaction, though, was that investors were frustrated that, as part of the deal, Monsanto will be spinning off just 19 percent of its agribusiness unit.

  • Agriculture grew up into agribusiness; the film industry expanded into the new field of television; the aircraft industry was boosted by the space program; and semiconductor technology paved the way for Silicon Valley.

  • According to the NYT , congressional victories for the business lobby this past year included: repeal of Depression-era laws preventing banks, securities firms, and insurance concerns from entering one another's line of business, a five-year extension of the business R&D tax credit, no increase in the minimum wage, no regulation of health-care plans, no campaign finance reform, and no ban on agribusiness mergers.

  • A more substantial issue raised by the advent of cloning (itself from the Greek klon , meaning "twig" or "branch") is, of course, the possibility that commerce in the very stuff of which we're made will ultimately turn humanity into merchandise, our genesis controlled by some mutant form of agribusiness.


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