Sentences with phrase «rich landowners»
The phrase "rich landowners" refers to people who own a large amount of land and have a lot of money. Full definition
Leaving aside the social justice concerns surrounding farm consolidation (and therefore the favoring of rich landowners over peasants), it required massive dams like Bhakra or groundwater mining for irrigation water and huge quantities of synthetic fertilizers made from fossil fuels in addition to Borlaug's wheat.
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Democracy can not consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
The barons were the small group of rich landowners whose interests were threatened by the absolute power claimed by the King.
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.»
However, city commissioners worried about rising construction costs and appeasing DC's rich landowners, since L'Enfant wanted expansive public areas.
Don Samuel's concern for the poor was quickly met by the hostility of the rich landowners and of the government.
An example from one of them, St. Basil the Great (born in Cappadocia about 330, died in 379) Bishop of Caesarea who in his sermons to the rich landowners, gives an indication of the tenor of their thought:
The son of rich landowners, Antony — who would later be known as Saint Antony the Great — took what he...
The World Bank believes it can, but the rich landowners disagree
Earth — Aleksandr Dovzhenko's masterful chronicle of the conflict between collective farmers and rich landowners is never less than visually stunning.
They boasted an estate of four hectares where the rich landowner Mr. Benjamin Hudson owned a large number of slaves from the African continent.
(Rated R) OLD GRINGO - A large - scale but utterly forgettable epic about a schoolteacher and a rich landowner coping with the turbulence of the Mexican Revolution.
My father and uncle leased seven mou of land from a rich landowner who lived in the far west of the province.
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.