Sentences with phrase «wealthy landowners»

These characters include a wealthy entrepreneur in India who wants to end poverty while creating the country's first discount airline; a young woman in Nigeria who aspires to be a doctor but scratches a living in lands fouled by oil extraction; a young man in England fighting to install wind turbines but facing strident opposition from wealthy landowners who say they are worried about global warming, but appear more worried about their view.

Agribusiness has become increasingly important in the struggling economy, in turn leading to an increase in the political power of wealthy landowners.

The Tory faithful won't be budged and Barlow is a fresh, young family man — just the face they need to represent their stuffy, cadre of aging, wealthy landowners looking forward to retirement.

Wage - workers, propertyless peasants, domestics, and poor artisans were assumed to be too dependent to participate fully in politics; small farmers and artisans deserved political rights but should defer to their betters in most political decisions — the truly virtuous wealthy landowners.

It's perfectly possible for a king to make suboptimal rules, and it's also possible for wealthy landowners to make suboptimal rules, and it's also possible for a class of nobles to make suboptimal rules.

For the recently proposed US Cape Wind offshore turbine project, environmental, tourism business, and wealthy landowner interests seem to have allied in opposition based mainly on aesthetics.

In celebration of International Women's Day 2018 and 100 years after women first got the vote, Doughty Street's women members asked why the streets they walk each day are named after men, mainly wealthy landowners and benefactors, rather than the many inspiring and influential women who lived or worked nearby, such as Jane Lyons, Marie Lawson, Harriet Kerr and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.

For the Salvadorans, God's new earth will restore the garden of the people, which flourished before the wealthy landowners kept people from planting their corn, vegetables and beans to make room for the profit - making coffee, cotton and sugar.

This hearty stew originated in hilltop villages throughout Tuscany during the Middle Ages, where hungry, hard - working peasants who served table - side to their wealthy landowners, would pocket the leftover crusts and crumbs and bits of meat after abundant feasts and add these to their soups and stews at home.

David Jacks was one of the wealthiest landowners in Monterey, California and he had many enterprises, including dairies.

The now harvest cropper trio settle in on the vast farm, when Bill observes the wealthy landowner's interest in Abby and overhears that he's ill and is only expected to live for a year.

Katherine (Florence Pugh) is married off to Alexander (Paul Hilton), son of a wealthy landowner, who proves to be a cruel and neglectful husband.

They're being left to starve, while the wealthy landowners, who started the war, are not only staying rich but avoiding service.

Directed by the great Liv Ullman, the film will see Chastain in the title role, the daughter of a wealthy landowner who seduces the valet (Colin Farrell), to the dismay of his lover (Samantha Morton).

A powerful allegory about environmental destruction, this richly atmospheric drama follows a teenage girl as she goes on vacation with her father, a wealthy landowner who becomes obsessed with eliminating the carp fish from his artificial lagoon.

Christian Bale (The Prestige, Batman Begins) plays Dan Evans, a war amputee that has all but lost his ranch to a wealthy landowner when he can't grow much in crops for a lengthy period.

He hears about a large bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, a man who impregnated a wealthy landowner's daughter.

He also accepts a job repairing machinery for Gerard Mortimer, the wealthiest landowner in the district.

Thirsting for vengeance against the man they believe has wronged them — their former Aboriginal stockman — the distraught brothers turn to the ruthless and cunning John Sullivan, the wealthiest landowner in the region and their father's former employer.

He begs Mammen Samuel Varghese, the wealthy landowner and Christian, for money.

The association's members included Grand Duke Nicholas, the uncle of Czar Nicholas II, and Artem Boldareff, a wealthy landowner.

«Sometimes these dogs are given as a gift to wealthy landowners to protect their estates if it is decided that the puppy has a special connection with that person», the Facebook page adds.

Of course, some wealthy landowners would like to lock up slices of the coast for themselves alone.

3 Wealth Inequality In the UK, the «haves» — wealthy landowners and middle class households, have been able to take advantage of feed - in tariffs and subsidies by erecting solar panels and turbines on their property.