Sentences with phrase «of rich landowners»

The son of rich landowners, Antony — who would later be known as Saint Antony the Great — took what he...

The son of rich landowners, Antony — who would later be known as Saint Antony the Great — took what he read in Matthew 19:21 literally: «If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven.»

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Democracy can not consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Redfern says many of the rural dwellers were likely to have been serfs and labourers for rich landowners, and so lived much harsher lives than the urban folk.

Indeed, the outfit of the successful, rich Victorian landowner, the top hat, brocade frock coat; the complete look was to portray the position of power held by Kent in Road.

They boasted an estate of four hectares where the rich landowner Mr. Benjamin Hudson owned a large number of slaves from the African continent, whom he tortured and raped in numerous occasions, provoking death.

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

A few rich landowners benefit mightily by the huge susbidides they receive for putting windmills on their rolling acres of shooting moors.