Sentences with phrase «against peasant»

The previous chief justice, Anthony Gubbay, had ruled against peasant farmer Samson Mhuriro and 26 co-applicants who wanted the court to prevent the owners of the farms they had invaded from evicting them.

Never forget, «Among conservatives there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, «the people»... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons... We... are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.»

It led Luther to side with the princes against the peasants in the Peasants» Revolt, and modern Lutheranism in Germany to defer revolt against Nazi tyranny until it became clear that Hitler was usurping the place that belonged only to Christ.

For this reason Luther sided against the peasants in the Peasants» War, and gave added religious sanction to a social stratification which is still much in evidence in European society.

Frederick was succeeded by his brother Duke John, whose first task was to make sure that the campaign against the peasants was satisfactorily concluded, and to meet up with his allies, young Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Duke George, and Duke Henry of Brunswick.

In the end, as in most films of this type, the DEA triumphs in its land war against the peasants, and Statham can get back to his life.

Not exact matches

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

In the South, of course, among the peasant - farmers, the battle against living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.

The peasant movement was a revolt against the hierarchical socioeconomic structure and developed as a retribalization along egalitarian lines in the central highlands.

Both George Mendenhall and Norman Gottwald argued that Israel's origins were to be sought instead in a peasant revolt against urban Canaanite overlords.

He has even shared with the rural peasant class in his denouncement against the Herodian urban culture 84 that deprived the poor of their means of livelihood and marginalized them even as the urban centers enjoyed the fruit of their labor.

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

There, however, forces are gathering against him: Isabela, Octavio, the fisherman's daughter, the marquis, the peasant bride, and even Juan's own father, Don Diego.

@mike You said: «some things never change you are still toting the line «Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant», which acknowledges his existence but still can not speak against Luke 4, where it states He read from the scroll.

some things never change you are still toting the line «Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant», which acknowledges his existence but still can not speak against Luke 4, where it states He read from the scroll.

Then Goliath hurled himself once again at David, that is, against the workers, the peasants, against the young people and women, against children, against the heroic people of Nicaragua.2

While at first he urged the authorities to be moderate, he later came out against the more radical features of the extreme reformers and urged the use of force against what he called the «murderous and thieving hordes of peasants.»

Luther saw both sides to be in the wrong: the peasants suffered widely from injustice, but in the end they did not have the right to resort to violent revolt against the established rulers.

His reputation was severely damaged by the Peasants» War itself, and by the defeat of the rebel armies, Erasmus's book against Luther had finally polarised almost all opinion either pro or contra Luther, and Luther's reply to it would confirm this.

To the peasants he preached almost undiluted non-violence and resignation: «Even a child can understand that the Christian law tells us not to strive against injustice, not to grasp the sword.

He then issued his blistering advice to the princes to suppress the peasants ruthlessly in his Against the Robbing and Murdering Mobs of Peasants — this again appeared too late, when the princes were already victorious and indulging in brutal vepeasants ruthlessly in his Against the Robbing and Murdering Mobs of Peasants — this again appeared too late, when the princes were already victorious and indulging in brutal vePeasants — this again appeared too late, when the princes were already victorious and indulging in brutal vengeance.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.

«Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants» and «25 Articles».

The peasant movement in the Philippines, however, reiterated their dissent against Golden Rice as a legitimate conviction to defend rights against corporate control of agriculture thru GMOs.

That's why only Purnell moved against Brown and without a palace coup there'll be no peasant's revolt from the backbenches.

Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling human rights conditions, where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people — human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.

This led to a peasants» revolt against and an effort to back eventual winner Liz McInnes.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

However, John has ulterior motives in mind in assisting Juan in his endeavors, most notably in helping the Mexican peasants gain the upper hand against their oppressors, using Juan as the ultimate unwitting hero of the Revolution.

Long recognized as one of George Lucas» primary inspiration for Star Wars (among other things, the bickering peasants who wander into the odyssey inspired R2D2 and C - 3PO), it's Kurosawa's his first go at the widescreen format and he proves to be a master at it, dynamically spreading his compositions out to an epic scope and boldly setting his cascade of sharp action scenes against a magnificent landscape.

Kings and queens look down from their lofty aeries on the dirty streets below, where peasants defend their hard - won territory against barbarian hordes.

Because he defended his older sister against the violent lusts of a wealthy scion, Hope and his peasant family were forced to flee Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter.

This uprising, known as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, was a peasant revolt in china against the unfair treatment of the citizenry during the last part of the Han Dynasty.

You mean like the tears you PC losers were crying when Arkham Knight didn't work on PC, or when Steam revealed your personal information to random people, or waiting for GTAV to release like peasants, or playing against hackers, or pirating games because you're too poor to buy them.

In an interesting move, the Xbox One version will run on Microsoft's Azure servers, rather than the Amazon servers which the PC version use, which may limit crossplay possibilities but then hey, those PC folk don't want you console peasants to play against anyway so maybe it's for the best?

Use different weapon combinations or dual - wield two of the same to defeat Mental or use your arsenal in a deathmatch against «flat peasants».

A group of peasants and fishermen, who have grown up under the shadow of «El Gigante» (the giant), struggles against the multinational companies Enel, Endesa and Impregilo.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

- We observed that our CAGW scare - mongering, peer - reviewed, sanctimonious authority - figures never chose to LEAD BY PERSONAL EXAMPLE AND FROM THE FRONT in the fight against demon - carbon but always seemed to have a hot - babe, CO2 succubus or two or three on the side (and quite brazen about the whole deal) even as they demanded carbon - chastity for us peasants.

«Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964... In 1935, Lysenko compared his opponents in biology to the peasants who still resisted the Soviet government's collectivization strategy, saying that by opposing his theories the traditional geneticists were setting themselves against Marxism.

AA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land - workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels.

Dead peasant life insurance has led to many class action lawsuits against companies abusing this strategy of purchasing corporate owned life insurance, also known as COLI, on its non-key employees and has also led to the IRS establishing specific guidelines and requirements for all employer owned life insurance policies purchased after August 17, 2006.