They're our Americanized version of wealthy, land-owning lords. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Mull: Dueling Pro-, Anti-War Victories in the Senate] Reference
Even land-owning meanies can believe the truth once in a while. From Wordnik.com. [Justice & Peace is NOT only for the Left] Reference
So, does the author describe land-owning corporations in detail?. From Wordnik.com. [Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on the Planet by Kevin Cahill] Reference
The Slovaks, on the other hand, were ruled over by the land-owning Hungarian. From Wordnik.com. [A History Lesson on Slovakia] Reference
The small-unit farmers (land-owning), the petty tradesmen, and manufacturers. From Wordnik.com. [A REVIEW] Reference
Now, this was back when voting was preserved for those land-owning white guys. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2000] Reference
How could a District land-owning white dude – being denied representation – exist?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » DC Statehood] Reference
At the time the Constitution was originally framed, citizens were White land-owning men. From Wordnik.com. [Noah Manne: Constitutional Relativism and Proposition 8] Reference
This land-owning class is still dominated by the old traditions of the landed aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
He had a great belief in the land-owning classes, and an admiration for what remained of the. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Mr. Zardari hails from a prominent land-owning family in Ms. Bhutto's home province of Sindh. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's Zardari Poses] Reference
The reality of poor and starving people beholden to land-owning rich men is somewhat different. From Wordnik.com. [MMOG Nation » The Setting is the Story II] Reference
We are forever stuck in a world as seen through the eyes of male, land-owning aristocrats in 1789. From Wordnik.com. [Week's Funniest Joke: GOP Demands Obama Nominate Mainstream Candidate to Supreme Court] Reference
So yes, from 1776 until relatively recent history, white land-owning men basically had all the power. From Wordnik.com. [Standing Pat] Reference
The US replaced Benigno Aquino with his wife, Corazon, herself a member of a wealthy, land-owning family. From Wordnik.com. [The US in Pakistan: Relying on a Familiar Playbook] Reference
What actually happened was that the land-owning class transferred its assets from the land to industries. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of Free China in the Free World] Reference
These same white land-owning men also died in droves to maintain their property and secure their freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Standing Pat] Reference
Not only are the homes of the farmers improved, but the number of land-owning citizens has also increased. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The small population - in 1821 there were only 65,000 - was thus mainly composed of land-owning small farmers. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1987 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Hamsun has here moved up a step in the social scale, from villagers of the Benoni type to the land-owning class. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
Our founders were mostly aristocrats who formed a constitutional republic of, by and for land-owning white males. From Wordnik.com. [Lies, Damn Lies, and Lies that Unleash Hell] Reference
California State Parks and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are the main land-owning agencies within the reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
Much that the land-owning peasant could and would produce under private property is lost under their present system. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 11~ The Organization of Productive Effort] Reference
In addition to the House of Representatives elected by land-owning males, there was an appointed Legislative Council. From Wordnik.com. [1843] Reference
He was born and raised in the Philippines to a prominent indio family who were nevertheless tenants of a land-owning. From Wordnik.com. [2004 January 02 « Far Outliers] Reference
“What reason is there,” he wrote, “why the income from business should not be larger than that from land-owning?”. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
Consequently the land-owning cartel is absolute-there is no alternate suitable path that demand for this resource can take. From Wordnik.com. [How the Economy Responds to Governmental Attempts to Overcome Slumps and Depressions] Reference
Can you explain how the land-owning minority benefits from improvements in a way that the non-land-owning majority does not?. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher] Reference
IN THE METICULOUS penmanship of a man born to a land-owning Southern family, he began a letter to President Abraham Lincoln. From Wordnik.com. [The Gun] Reference
But while in 1815 the House of Commons represented almost exclusively the land-owning and corn-growing classes, between 1815 and. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
And although it was implemented in 1951, it was never the intention of the government to create a permanent land-owning peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Communist ChinaTime for Reappraisal] Reference
Originally it meant "white, land-owning, adult males over 21" and we spent four score and seven years taking away the hidden adjectives. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Day in America] Reference
Instead of politics being the domain of educated, land-owning white males, anyone over 18 who hasn't been convicted of a felony can vote. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Rove the Feminist Bankteller] Reference
The value of farmland naturally increased, which benefited privileged land-owning elites but led many poor farmers to be promptly evicted. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and the environment] Reference
At the same time a transformation was underway in the status of the land-owning families; that is, the emergence of what we call feudalism. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House] Reference
To the aristocracy and land-owning class generally, both of England and Ireland, the fall of the Tory government will be a cause of apprehension. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
But agriculture has not been competitive; and when the land-owning class travelled, it was chiefly in Spain, which can hardly be called a progressive agricultural country. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Turning peasants into land-owning consumers could go a long way toward creating a consumer society, reducing China's dependence on exports, and rebalancing the world economy. From Wordnik.com. [Why China Works] Reference
Phillipa Barziza's involvement in this development likely came from being a member of a land-owning family in both Virginia and. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
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