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breeding

elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring the breeding population retained a few bulls for breeding purposes the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization (= nurture) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community they debated whether nature or nurture was more important (= reproduction) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) a woman of breeding and refinement

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Simple sentences

This chemical will prevent germs from breeding.
A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
He is breeding cattle on his farm.
To the best of my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.
The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.
Tom kept a pair of rabbits for breeding.
It most definitely doesn't mean that our men are kept primarily for breeding stock and procreation.

Movie subtitles

All that water was perfect for breeding life.
This gown has both chic and good breeding.
I can supply the breeding myself.
Michael, you might fold up, and I might fold up. but that horse has the breeding.
Birth, breeding, wealth, - good looks.
You're breeding horses in this family, Mr. Morgan.
Now that you've had your attack for the day, let's endeavor to recapture our good humor and remember our breeding.
What goes to make a rose, ma'am, is breeding and budding and horse manure, if you'll pardon the expression.
I'm old-fashioned. I believe in breeding.
Let us swear that you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not, for there is none of you so mean and base that hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Laura had innate breeding.
Only they up and died before they got around to breeding'.
Look at that breeding.
But good breeding stock.
It shall be devastated by fire, as a breeding ground of vices and devilish sin.
At least she has good breeding.
Pres is beyond talking, but I know him and I know his breeding.
That is the trouble with breeding - you keep getting more horses, and some you must sell.
I can't understand how people of good breeding can find any pleasure in bathing why not?
You're breeding horses in this family, Mr Morgan.
On an arduous cliff hill there can be found a house from the earliest Tibetan people. As the legend goes there lived a creature by the cross breeding of an ape and a devil-woman.
You can't beat that breeding.
Good breeding stock, the Redpoles.
Saxons of any breeding won't find much welcome here now that he's dead.
There's no love here for Saxons of any breeding now.
Horse Breeding Association Zacheta in Poland.
Achnacroish is a breeding place for Methuselahs.
Girls with beauty, breeding, accomplishments.
A cultivated woman, a woman of breeding and intelligence. can enrich a man's life immeasurably.
It's all in the breeding.
He's all for good breeding.
We're breeding a race of moral midgets.
A horse that cost you a lot for breeding stock, I'd use it for breeding.
Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.

News and current affairs

After conventional plant breeding led to the development of rapeseed varieties with low concentrations of erucic acid, canola oil became the most commonly consumed oil in Canada.
Eugenics embodies the desire and attempts of a society's leaders to control the breeding practices of its citizens, including the forcible sterilization or murder of those deemed as carrying undesirable genes.
First, in most cases, poverty breeds poor governance at least as much as poor governance breeding poverty.
Many of the new post-communist societies - consumed with revenge, resentment, and raw struggles for power and status - became breeding grounds for aggressive nationalism.
To the extent that their breeding ground can be destroyed, as Al Qaeda's was in Afghanistan, there will be fewer newly minted terrorists to worry about.
Likewise, over the last four decades, improved breeding methods, higher-quality feed, and better veterinary care have more than doubled average milk production worldwide.
Though cyberspace offered the advantages of access to information and easy communication to a growing number of people, it became a breeding ground for crime, hacker attacks, and threats to governments.
The word stagnation suggests a swamp, implying a breeding ground for virulent dangers.
The anarchy along Israel's borders is becoming a breeding ground for Sunni extremists for whom the Jewish state is the ultimate enemy.
Either Romania, as an EU applicant, complies with these regulations or it must abandon pig breeding on a familiar scale and, as a consequence, increase the share of pork importation.
While the trauma is no longer acute, as it was in 2009, wounds remain - and they are breeding new pathologies.
The extreme poverty of the bottom billion people is shocking, morally intolerable, and dangerous - a breeding ground of disease, terrorism, and violence.
Indeed, only after the US-led invasion did Iraq become a breeding ground for terrorists.
We are quite literally breeding a new generation of disorder.
Ultimately, a society that allows women to be brutalized will remain a breeding ground of generalized violence.
In January 2013, keeping breeding sows in individual stalls will also be prohibited.
Today's refugee camps are often breeding grounds for terrorism, revenge fantasies, and armed insurgency.
This turmoil has created a fertile breeding ground for militarized and radicalized youth.
When they do, both sides must spend an enormous amount of time and effort in reaching a consensus on North Korea, which leaves the isolated North breeding all sorts of conspiracy theories.
America's ill-advised foray into Iraq has further confounded the distinction between the two types of suicide bombers and created a nearly ideal breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists.
Obviously, there must be an intensification of efforts to reduce global poverty, which has become a breeding ground of resentment, envy, and despair - hence, a ready producer of violence and suicide bombers.
Once again, the breeding ground for aggression is ethnic hatred.

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