Sentences with phrase «like chattels»

Workers create the wealth of any enterprise and yet are treated like chattels with no say over their lives at work.

Example, I want to lash out whenever I see «progressive» educated Muslims treat woman like chattel... wrong no matter how you try to rationalize it.

Most of us assume that such moments in history have passed, that the world as a whole has matured, gotten better, and that horrors like chattel slavery are a relic of a less civilized era.

That these lighter textures of mischief and spiritiness can be found in a story that ultimately sees most of these young women bartered off into marriage like chattel or worse, is a testament to Erguven's sensitivity and intelligence behind the camera, and to the uniformly winning performances she elicits from her largely non-professional cast, especially Günes Sensoy as the youngest and most irrepressible of the sisters.

Quinn toils to feed, clean, assure, train and straighten out dogs used as fight - ring bait or abandoned, chained and forgotten, traded on the street like chattel or labeled as unredeemable and designated to be killed.

What a terrible way to live — him treating her like a chattel, her letting him (or feeling so trapped that she puts up with it).

Not exact matches

This is further confirmed in that as chattel, they can be bequeathed to descendants like a goat or a piece of jewelry or any other piece of personal property.

Like Douglass, during his career as a slave, Brown was the chattel property of several families, and he also recorded that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the character and well - being of the slaveholders and their families.

If you don't like it that they have a say, I suggest you move to a country where they're nothing but chattel.

He refers to Aboriginals as «blackstock» — like disposable chattels.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have the benefit of institutions like the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD) or the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY) in our hometowns, but many similar institutions offer a variety of school programs designed to educate young people — not only about the legacy of chattel slavery in America, but also the legacy of resistance and activism against injustice that it nurtured.

There we silently reflected on what Africa and the US might be like today if trade had been limited to commodities rather than human chattel.

Their editors actually read a book and edit it before it is published and they do treat their authors as partners and valued members of the team, not as an asset or chattel like some publishers do.)

Those loans where the land is not a factor (the purchase of the land is not included or the mobile home loan will be placed on public spots) are referred to as chattel mortgages just like with manufactured homes and the terms of the loan differ.

I won't be surprised that at some point, it will be like car insurance, in which case your insured pet is a chattel, and the insurance company will just «total it.»

Anyone who takes the time to properly research the origins of the «population control» movement will come to understand that the Rockefeller - Turner-Gates agenda for drastic population reduction, which is now clearly manifesting itself through real environmental crises like chemtrails, genetically modified food, tainted vaccines and other skyrocketing diseases such as cancer, has its origins in the age - old malevolent elitist agenda to cull the human «chattel» as one would do to rodents or any other species deemed a nuisance by the central planning authorities.

Actually, that would be more like a privileged entry: one is privileged to enter another's land for the purpose of removing a chattel at a reasonable time and manner without causing any damage.

Lawyer Roderick Byrnes, who had previous professional misconduct convictions, should have warned his client about the «mounting costs» he was incurring while pursuing matters like divvying up household chattels and his preference to not have his spouse smoke in front of their children, Justice Janet Wilson ruled for the Divisional Court panel.

I've had to «clock in» and «clock out» at many of my less - illustrious jobs over the years and I never felt like «chattel».

The listing of appliances or other chattels or excluded fixtures in the MLS ® information is, like the listing price, a reflection of what the seller, at the time of listing the property, directs their agent to advertise as the terms under which the property may be sold.