Sentences with phrase «by peasant farmers»

Well before Mei long turned up, Yixian was well known for its beautifully preserved fossilised fish, insects and turtles, which were — and still are — collected and sold by peasant farmers.

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Effectively, there are 22,000 peasant - farmer organisations at the village level which, since 1967, try to propel economic development from their culture by opposing imported production models.

Governments are pushed to this by the operation of the economy with increasing costs of production, losses of peasant farmers and local companies, with dumping of subsidized foreign goods into their liberalized market.

Stressing the peasant background of Jesus and acknowledging the role of the social background and artistic skill in molding his thought, Legrand observes, «the type of imagination revealed by the parables is more that of a farmer than that of an artisan.

3rd layer original Greek sheep farmers peasant trousers once worn by Demis Roussos in one of his famous videos.

In an occasion, CPI Marxist wanted to evict some poor peasants out of their lands by pursuing a pro-Chinese (CPI Marxist is perhaps the only pro-China communist party of India) policy, trying to industrialise West Bengal fast on the cost of leaving poor farmers homeless and landless, and joining a capitalist pro-globalisation economic program.

Aztec peasants were not simple farmers whose lives were dominated by the need to pay tribute to their elite overlords.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

In Gwent, this state of affairs is represented by a deck of peasants and farmers being played onto a board where a special unit like a barricade or siege weapon needs to be protected for a certain number of rounds (by buffing or healing) in order to progress the story.

Yet while nearly every frame carries the memory of war, his work is marked by an overwhelming humanity and sensitivity: careful portraits of soldiers, peasants, farmers and refugees, all rendered with equal compassion, whether a muscular fighter posing with a grenade launcher or the damaged body of the victim of a land mine.