Sentences with phrase «of peasants in»

The Hindu: Polluted skies, dead rivers, disappearing forests and displacement of peasants and tribal are what we see around us 40 years after the Chipko movement started On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 years ago — a group of peasants in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling [continue reading...]

Im sorry but unless bioware decides to turn away from epic war stories and focus on the common day to day live of peasants in the dragon age world a «plus size» character makes no fucking sense.

Karadalis: Im sorry but unless bioware decides to turn away from epic war stories and focus on the common day to day live of peasants in the dragon age world a «plus size» character makes no fucking sense.

If we could have seen the exploitation of the peasants in czarist Russia, we would have understood the frenzy of the Marxist revolution.

Stackhouse and McCann celebrate the «relationships, group solidarities and cosmopolitan understandings» made possible by the new economic order in contrast to the miserable condition of the peasants in traditional societies.

One writer, we saw, tells how the practice of the peasant in his tillage and care of his crops was taught to him by the Lord (Isa.

He also designed the Blizzard logo and was the voice of the peasant in WarCraft.

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Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the teenagers and the other, «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Still you could fill the British Museum with evidence uttered by the peasant, and given in favour of the ghost.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity including Mormonism, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

Theodoret makes a similar point in his story of Maesymas, a Syriac - speaking peasant with no education.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Paganism, and Christianity by the «hatters», «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life.

Whether the masses are innocent is, of course, not a matter that can be documented, but I have observed in conversation with many spectators tenacious conviction that the Passion Play is (a) a great work of religious art or (b) the work of sincere peasant folk bent only on fulfilling an ancient vow.

An example of this is found in the peasant movement of T'aiping in 19th century China.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life (e.g. Do No Harm).

Only let a law be made and rigorously executed, that the body of every self - murderer, Lord or peasant, shall be hanged in chains, and the English fury will cease at once [The Works of John Wesley (Baker Book House, 1979).

Born in Basel, in 1886, he had returned at the end of his university career to be the minister of the church in the little town of Protestant Aargau, north of Lucerne; and there, during the war period, he had preached on Sunday mornings before the good peasant folk, to the antiphonal booming of guns in near - by Alsace.

In the wake of the Peasants» War, Luther set about creating an organized theology systematizing his belief that church and state must have some kind of separation.

In countries such as Denmark, church membership was used to force peasants to remain as residents in the parish of their birtIn countries such as Denmark, church membership was used to force peasants to remain as residents in the parish of their birtin the parish of their birth.

For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.

Servants appear in the stead of their masters; riffraff are admitted to the royal banquet table; the nobodies stand up and are counted; peasants are crowned king for a day; and the meek inherit the earth.

Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

After one such revolution much of the land was divided up among the peasants, and to prevent its re-concentration in the hands of the few, the government passed laws forbidding its sale.

Second, I believe that, despite radical change in the economy, many of the Communist leaders retain some of Marx's concern for workers, and in China's case, for peasants.

In 1997, one of the largest walks brought together 100,000 people, peasant - farmers without land, in the Brazilian capitaIn 1997, one of the largest walks brought together 100,000 people, peasant - farmers without land, in the Brazilian capitain the Brazilian capital.

One of the other areas of activity of MST is also peasant - farmer education, i.e. literacy and schooling, since I should point out that the level of illiteracy in the Brazilian countryside stands at 40 - 50 %.

I come from Burkina Faso, at the heart of West Africa and I represent here a peasant - farmer organisation created in 1996 to build a capability for representation and negotiation, to defend the interests of the farmers faced with certain trends, certain programs, certain policies over which they have no control.

What do the peasants of Brazil and the bureaucrats like me from the European Community have in common,?

No government has really succeeded in bringing about real agrarian reform and, for the moment, since the neo-liberal period, the situation of the landless peasant - farmers has become increasingly serious because the large properties are beginning to find a certain legitimacy once more.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

In the parable of the Chassidic Rabbi, Moshe Leib of Sasov: «How to love man is something I learned from a peasant.

In the South, of course, among the peasant - farmers, the battle against living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

As the «matron of honor,» (a title that for some reason conjures in my mind the image of a large breasted woman in a peasant dress carrying an armful of babies), my duties for the week will keep me pretty busy.

Brennan Manning told the story of a priest in Ireland who, on a walking tour of a rural parish, saw an old peasant kneeling by the side of the road, praying.

A European peasant could expect a reasonable amount of protection from his lord, for both body and soul, in exchange for his labor.

«I do not accept the divine conception of either Jesus or Augustus as factual history, but I believe that God is incarnate in the Jewish peasant poverty of Jesus and not in the Roman imperial power of Augustus.»

to be the only moment of actual nobility in the New Testament, the wry taunt of an acerbic ironist unimpressed by the pathetic fantasies of a deranged peasant.

In a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dreaIn a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dreain some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dream.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.

During the Middle Ages, a segment of the peasant population in Europe and Great Britain was singled out for executions on a massive scale.

Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of life e.g. Do No Harm.

the German Peasants» War (1524 — 1525) the battle of Kappel in Switzerland (1531) the Schmalkaldic War (1546 — 1547) in the Holy Roman Empire the Eighty Years» War (1568 — 1648) in the Low Countries the French Wars of Religion (1562 — 1598) the Thirty Years War (1618 — 1648), affecting the Holy Roman Empire including Habsburg Austria and Bohemia, France, Denmark and Sweden Scottish Reformation and Civil Wars English Reformation and Civil War Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.