Sentences with phrase «slaves at the demand»

Their very first strike action tagged «the general strike of the plebeians» occurred because they saw with indignation how their friends, who had often served the state bravely in the legions, were savagely chained and reduced to slaves at the demand of Roman aristocratic creditors.

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Marching to the tune of the Marseillaise, the Haitian slaves demanded that the slogans of liberté, égalité, and fraternité be taken at face value.

Which brings us to his latest, the Antebellum spaghetti western / slave vengeance picture «Django Unchained,» which has the unstructured, long winded architecture and pace of a novel — or at least a novel that doesn't have to concern itself with the format demands of a visual medium that lends itself to around a two hour experience.

However, now more than ever us mere mortals that are slaved to his results are justified to demand a peek at it.