Sentences with phrase «landed aristocracies»

The upshot is that the banks end up with the rent that used to accrue to the landed aristocracies of Europe.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

Aristotle, for example, was sympathetic to the landed aristocracy — who appropriate for themselves the lion's share of nature's bounty — and hostile to merchants, who earn a living by exploiting the «unnatural» fecundity of money in the marketplace.

The gentry are the high - born ruling class of the landed aristocracy and higher levels of the clergy.

Whatever the political motivations of people in relation to environmentalist issues, one thing is for sure; the Greenpeace hippies, the Schmidts, Manns, Turners, Gates etc. are foot - soldier dupes for an overarching agenda by the landed aristocracy of Europe and their Fascist fellow travelers.

Public land ownership, he argued in a recent editorial, was designed to prevent the appearance of a landed aristocracy in Israel.

Not exact matches

Along with most other economists of his day, he expected rentier income and the ownership of land, natural resources and banking to be taken out of the hands of the hereditary aristocracies that had held them since Europe's feudal epoch.

France, in the throws of the revolution had huge issues with the church and clergy which owned most of the land and were trying to co-opt the revolution and create a theocracy by installing the church into the vacancy left by the aristocracy.

From that point on, the landed gentry, the aristocracy, and the royal courts readily adopted the hot spice, and the Danube region developed Europe's only genuine chile cuisine.

Too much land belonging to the king, the aristocracy, and the church had been dispensed to too many members of the Third Estate to turn back the clock.

Hurry Sundown (1967), based on a best - selling novel, stars Michael Caine and Jane Fonda as the children of privileged Southern aristocracy trying to parlay the only thing of value they have left — the family land of a former plantation — into a new fortune.

«I had an exquisite time chatting with a true gentleman, in the classic sense of the word, meaning he owns land and belongs to aristocracy.

The story takes place at a time when Scots - Catholic Jacobites lived in uneasy proximity with the Protestant English land - owning aristocracy.

The aristocracy of family so deplored by Jefferson seems upon us; the counter-aristocracy of merit that long defined America as the land of opportunity has receded.

Companion dogs of the early warlords and barons, Vizsla blood was preserved pure for centuries by the land - owning aristocracy who guarded them jealously and continued to develop the hunting ability of these «yellow - pointers».

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, members of the British aristocracy invested in land in the United States and Canada.

Initially, Isola Bella was little more than a barren strip of rocky land inhabited by local fisherman but in 1630 the Borromeo family, influential members of Piedmont's aristocracy, began the construction of a grand residence (a «palazzo») and gardens on the island.

It ends up in the pockets of the land - owning aristocracy — see here.

the «consensus» is a massive PR failure the zeppelin is on fire — soft landing doubtful like many in the aristocracy, Cook, Mann and cohorts assume ordinary folk are stupid and talk down to us, it's laughable as much chatter as goes on here about «the consensus,» it's already dead it was meaningless anyway

Debts were reduced, the currency was revalued, and the Athenian class system was restructured into four distinct groups in an effort to lessen the aristocracy's chokehold on land ownership.