Sentences with phrase «peasant family in»

Li Yuan - chia was born into a peasant family in rural Guangxi Province.

Li Cunxin was born into an extremely poor peasant family in Qingdoa, a remote commune village in Northern China in 1961.

Mikhail Gorbachev, born into a peasant family in 1931, lived through Stalin's «Great Terror,» when the dictator deliberately starved millions of farmers to force them onto collective farms.

From the late 1700s till the early 1970s, when the Negros sugar industry was still thriving, landlords provided for the peasant families in their plantations, often supplying them with rice and deducting the cost from their earnings come work season.

Capilco was founded by a few peasant families in the early Aztec period.

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In that state, peasant families sold their children to be eaten during the era of state - created famine.

Martin Luther (1483 - l546) was the eldest child in a prosperous peasant family.

Non-certified organic agriculture in developing countries is practised by millions of indigenous people, peasants and small family farms involved in subsistence and local market - oriented production.

I'm poor, really a homeless peasant, my family helps me wen I don't live in my car.

Synopsis: In this Vietnamese drama, a young peasant girl named Mui (Lu Man San) is hired to work for a well - to - do family in SaigoIn this Vietnamese drama, a young peasant girl named Mui (Lu Man San) is hired to work for a well - to - do family in Saigoin Saigon.

Here (Unrated) Romance drama, narrated by Peter Coyote, about an American cartographer (Ben Foster) who falls in love with a photographer (Lubna Azabal) from a peasant family while on assignment in Armenia.

Ngugi wa Thiong» o (pronounced GU - gi wa - ti - ONG - go) was born into a large peasant family, in the Kiambu district of Kenya in 1938.

Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.

Born in poverty to a peasant family, she starred at school, winning a Kennedy scholarship that enabled her to travel to the U.S. for a university education.

Stand up to the incoming hordes of peasants, knights, and even dragons in this cute, family - friendly tower defense game.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

(10/05/2010) A UK - based cosmetics firm is severing ties with its palm oil supplier after a story in The Observer reported the Colombia - based company sought the eviction of peasant farmer families to develop a new oil palm plantation, reports the Guardian.

There were finally, the two peasant boys whose story is related in Gunther Weisenborn's Der lautlose Aufstand (1953), who were drafted into the S.S. at the end of the war and refused to sign; they were sentenced to death, and on the day of their execution they wrote in their last letter to their families: «We two would rather die than burden our conscience with such terrible things.