Sentences with phrase «as peasant»

And we needed to live as peasant farmers.

These typically range around minor goings - on throughout the kingdom, such as a peasant uprising or medical emergency.

Astro, before he can make sense of stuff, is then taken by the royal guard, who think he is Barrage, back to the royal palace for running away and disguising himself as a peasant!

She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a «barefoot doctor,» a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an... (more)

She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a «barefoot doctor,» (A lay health care worker who received 3 - 6 months training in basic medical principles), a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English - language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University.

Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, «Pat,» and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome schoolmaster.

Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future.

Mahama Seidu added that, as peasant farmers, they could not pay their children's school fees because of the decline in agriculture.

Look for looser pieces, such as peasant tops, tunics, maxis, and anything with an empire waist.

My parents thought that if they did not let me go to sports school, I could end up as a peasant digging the fields.»

Kaiserschmarren is known in Northern Germany as peasant food or food of poor people.

Wearing a felt hat and a grey garb, not wanting to be called doctor, but Brother Andrew and dear neighbour, as another peasant, subject to the magistrate of Orlamunde and obedient as an ordinary citizen.

I was an assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending sheep, laboring in rhythm — not with nature, to be sure — but with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.

We have here nothing so hopeful as a peasants» revolt but something more tedious — a corporate takeover, for instance, or a parliamentary power play.»

I could mow as well as the peasants, I could work with my brain eight hours uninterruptedly and feel no bad effects.

In recent decades similar policies have been followed as peasants have been forced off their land for the sake of modernization and «progress».

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

And certain workers and peasants - who had reason to resent the regime - were viewed as dangerous potential recruits to this fictional counter-revolution.

The countess lured young peasant women into her castle, promising them jobs as maids before brutally torturing them to death.

They got their payback with the torture and murder of millions as the catholic church layed the almighty smackdown on the peasants.

And ditto when the «pew peasants» of Christianity finally realize the con that has been pulled on them as they too will burn their bibles.

Your «syloquial» humor I do find amusing and yet such as you are made inferential affluences for the commoner peasants pleasing ways!»

In countries such as Denmark, church membership was used to force peasants to remain as residents in the parish of their birth.

For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

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.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

Luther is sometimes criticized for not supporting the peasants, as if he owed complete loyalty to the populist wave.

In this way they used the peasant - farmer organisations as alibis.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

It is as a result of this that we have become part of a peasant - farmer platform bringing together ten West African countries.

General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

As the «matron of honor,» (a title that for some reason conjures in my mind the image of a large breasted woman in a peasant dress carrying an armful of babies), my duties for the week will keep me pretty busy.

«I do not accept the divine conception of either Jesus or Augustus as factual history, but I believe that God is incarnate in the Jewish peasant poverty of Jesus and not in the Roman imperial power of Augustus.»

In a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dream.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.

«Many peasants and slum inhabitants need religion as a refuge in a society in permanent and progressive disintegration in order to deal with fear, threats, repression, hunger and death,» explained a report on the subject by Pro Mundi Vita, a Belgian - based Catholic think tank.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

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

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

In Power and Privilege Gerhard Lenski identifies clergy as members of the «retainer» class, buffering the ruling elite from the peasants.

The first followers of Jesus, so far as our scanty information goes, were neither «Galilaean peasants» nor members of the «proletariate».

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom of God, to an audience predominantly consisting of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were in constant relationship with nature in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience of pathos and joy.

The entrants of the Kingdom, according to Jesus, were to become like children, who, as Crossan observes, in the Galilean peasant context were understood to be the nobodies.65 The Kingdom belongs to the poor (ptwcoi, Lk.

«68 Since peasants and artisans belonged to the same class as that of the expendable in the structure of the peasant society, as Lenski has displayed, the emphasis in the agricultural parables seem to be on the marginalized whether peasants or expendables.