Sentences with phrase «feudal system»

(1) Social classes exist in feudal systems in which all productive resources are owned by the government.

«Nowadays,» she continued, «people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent.

Tea Party America is very much like the old feudal system, where princes and priests had all, and everyone else existed at their tolerance.

Henry had earlier defended a relative version of Papal Authority, earning himself the honorific Defensor Fidei, within a somewhat feudal system, in which suzereinity came with responsibilities to ones vassals.

The horrors of two global conflicts led to the breakdown of the formerly dominant class system in the UK, which had evolved from the earlier feudal system, carrying with it expectations of behaviour and achievement so rigid for each class that most people were unable to break free of them.

Many too criticised the charter as one that simply confirmed the existing order, stabilising the relationship between the barons and King John, and entrenching the oppressive feudal system.

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

Assemblyman Peter Lopez of Schoharie, excluded from the briefing like the Assembly's other minority Republicans, said the same feudal system has remained in place in the Legislature despite recent leadership changes and promises of openness.

It has the potential to greatly benefit the potential returnees, giving them leverage in their job search and freeing them somewhat from the prevailing (and stifling) feudal system back home.

It's a kind of feudal system where giant corporations reap all of the rewards generated by the content created by its users.

Louie said: «It is fantastic to see that Parliament is waking up to the deplorable scandal of the UK's feudal system of leasehold.

The feudal system was declining and it was a time of much fighting in western Europe.

«protests from Tibetans» would that be your average peasant, or is it really just the clergy and royals who got their feudal system taken away.

The feudal system entailed an awful sense of sovereignty.

«33 Since the church stood as the ideological sanction of the feudal system, it was necessary to de-mythologize that system before it could be directly destroyed.

In the Middle Ages a feudal system was developed which balanced rights and duties in a hierarchical family of men under God with the Church at the centre.

It wasn't until the Feudal system (i.e. Lords having control over the serfs) that Europe got on its feet and started really having a stable economy.

The author's central claim is that a crucial impulse for St Francis» conversion, and the inspiration for his way of life, was a re-interpretation or inversion of the code of chivalry that was both a product and the regulating force of the feudal system within which he was born.

The El Salvadorans had become accustomed to paying with their blood and life in the feudal system of exploitation.

«Silver's) minions toil under a feudal system that renders them almost meaningless.

«They have kicked parliamentary democracy into the long grass of the 22nd century and left us with a feudal system that is put to shame by almost every other country on the planet.»

Although we think of it as a national institution, it is virtually a feudal system among those 500 owners.

India is not the only country with a feudal system, and it is not easy for people from such cultures to question the prevailing system.

There are not enough jobs, and many of those that do exist, being junior level jobs in the feudal system, are not satisfying to young researchers who have tasted the freedom of creativity.

Next, they selected subtopics to explore, ranging from the feudal system to the Crusades to the role of the Church in daily life.

Lego figures help to make the Feudal System a little less complex.

which covers the Battle of Hastings, Motte and Bailey Castles, Domesday Book, Harrying of the North and the Feudal System.

Through reinforcing the idea of a hirearchy students begin to understand what the feudal system was and how it helped William control England.

Teacher Leigh Ann VanSchaick, a former public school teacher, has also woven math into the unit (calculating castle perimeters, for example), along with historic concepts like the feudal system.

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The Mexican Revolution got its start during the rule of Porfirio Diaz, a dictator who perpetuated a feudal system in the country with just a few wealthy oligarchs owning and operating much of Mexico's assets and the rest toiling away for crumbs.

We haven't come very far from the feudal system of the middle ages.

One aspect of this will be a conscious focus on the historical background of Yokohama, which may seem at first glance to be unrelated to contemporary art. 2017 marks the 150th year since the return of political power to the Emperor in 1867, which signified the collapse of the feudal system and the beginning of Japanʼs drastic modernization.

You must take comfort in the security of your bigoted, paternalistic - feudal system that keeps us heathen mountain folk in our proper place.

'' My ref from Cathedral records concerning the demand for higher wages by those digging the aqueduct after the black death surely marked the beginning of the end of the feudal system and led directly to the Peaants revolt of 1381 ″ tonyb

For a chamber that is populated by people who are appointed on the basis of merit, replacing the feudal system, it was a very disappointing experience.

If, as some people say, the Internet is becoming «feudal», with masses of users being bound by technological fealty to large private bodies like Amazon, Google or Apple — an assertion that must await another column — then one may recall that the feudal system in western European history (still Canada's primary heritage) eventually fell under the sway of the king.

This is a throwback to the feudal system of ownership.

When society emerged from the Middle Ages and shook off some of the elements of the feudal system, the lower class was elevated — they had acquired rights to the land they farmed.