Sentences with phrase «for wealthy landowners»
It's perfectly possible for a king to make suboptimal rules, and it's also possible for wealthy landowners to make suboptimal rules, and it's also possible for a class of nobles to make suboptimal rules.
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For the Salvadorans, God's new earth will restore the garden of the people, which flourished before the wealthy landowners kept people from planting their corn, vegetables and beans to make room for the profit - making coffee, cotton and sugFor the Salvadorans, God's new earth will restore the garden of the people, which flourished before the wealthy landowners kept people from planting their corn, vegetables and beans to make room for the profit - making coffee, cotton and sugfor the profit - making coffee, cotton and sugar.
A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.
Prominent among these in Australia are wealthy conservative landowners appalled by the very visible presence of the tall green - energy totems, a constant reminder of bucolic decay and the «upstairs - downstairs» disdain they have for those needing income from their often hilly, poorer quality land.
None of this bodes well for George Clooney in «The Descendants» as Matthew King, wealthy Hawaiian landowner and father forced to assemble his mutually hostile family when it's time to say goodbye to his dying, comatose wife.
He also accepts a job repairing machinery for Gerard Mortimer, the wealthiest landowner in the district.
With wind and solar power, we end up paying outrageously high prices for our energy, while wealthy landowners are lining their pockets.
Of course, some wealthy landowners would like to lock up slices of the coast for themselves alone.
For the recently proposed US Cape Wind offshore turbine project, environmental, tourism business, and wealthy landowner interests seem to have allied in opposition based mainly on aesthetics.