These three questions point at the principle of landowning. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
The other side is led by Tusayan's biggest landowning family. From Wordnik.com. [Developers and Conservationists Battle Over National Parks] Reference
Workers Syndical Union (USO); business and landowning interests; the. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Even in England, where he labours under no landowning disability, the. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Democrats want to make a change in the landowning structure in Chile. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO COMMENTS ON SUGAR, CHILEAN LAND REFORM] Reference
The (male) landowning classes were the only citizens allowed to vote. From Wordnik.com. [A Flagrant Violation of the Constitution] Reference
She belonged to one of the biggest landowning families in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell to the Mother of ‘People Power’] Reference
It was not so much that the landowning aristocracy were over-represented in. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
But non-landowning citizens had responsibilities in their roles as consumers as well. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
As already stated, the landowning families usually arrange alliances among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The ruling elites of these states were generally drawn from great landowning families. From Wordnik.com. [F. The Middle East and North Africa, 1914-1945] Reference
Large-scale landowning proved especially injurious in the Sung period, for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
He is the scion of a pro-Duvalier Haitian landowning family from the town of Jean Rebel. From Wordnik.com. [Max Blumenthal: Uncovering A US-Planned Coup In Haiti: The Original Version] Reference
The feudal landowning elite, only. 5% of the population, holds over 90% of national wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Return of the "Mad Mullah"] Reference
Many of the present Chilean industrial bourgeoisie come from landowning and oligarchic stock. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO COMMENTS ON SUGAR, CHILEAN LAND REFORM] Reference
With Uriburu the landowning and big business and other conservative groups returned to power. From Wordnik.com. [2. South America] Reference
Taught me the principles of landowning which he'd learnt from his father but hardly practised. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
There was no power here apart from landowning, no society worth the name, just a pecking order. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The bailiff, from a powerful landowning family, was a big, jug-eared man named A. Brewster Land. From Wordnik.com. [The Stocking Strangler case] Reference
The membership of the front was drawn mostly from the commercial and absentee landowning classes. From Wordnik.com. [1927] Reference
At independence in 1810, rural landowning strongmen, or caudillos, resisted control from Buenos Aires. From Wordnik.com. [The Caudillo Clash] Reference
Under the Chinese economic system, large-scale landowning always proved socially and politically injurious. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Stolypin bolstered the class of landowning peasants in an attempt to encourage rural prosperity and stability. From Wordnik.com. [Venom And Violence] Reference
Mr. Gilani, 55, is the scion of an influential landowning family and a former speaker of the National Assembly. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's New Premier Releases Judges] Reference
The rhythms of a great estate, and the dynamics of a landowning family, are captured with Tolstoyan exactitude. From Wordnik.com. [America America: Summary and book reviews of America America by Ethan Canin.] Reference
Abbey, and type (according to Mr. PICKTHALL) of the landowning class that he evidently considers ripe for abolition. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920] Reference
There were also some contradictions, some struggles there, because there were squatters against this landowning company. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEAKS ON DOMINGUEZ, DEL PINO CASES] Reference
The reform primarily benefited large landholders and strengthened the alliance between Riza Shah and the landowning elite. From Wordnik.com. [1934] Reference
He claimed to be looking for landowning opportu-nities, and was therefore perfect for the operation Deru and Quark had going. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Of Air And Darkness]
If you want "limited," in the way Berkowitz means it, disband the military and give all well-to-do landowning males a musket. From Wordnik.com. [Michael J.W. Stickings: What the Tea Party is Really All About] Reference
The bureaucratic, landowning, and merchant elites that had dominated the region gave way to slave soldiers and tribal warriors. From Wordnik.com. [2. The Muslim Middle East and North Africa, c. 945-1500] Reference
It means just so much opportunity for increase of wealth on the part of landowning and slaveholding or serf-controlling classes. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
South Africa's mining legislation should give greater protection to rural landowning communities and those involved in land claims. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The 55-year-old former National Assembly speaker belongs to an influential landowning family in Punjab, Pakistan's biggest province. From Wordnik.com. [Gilani to Become Pakistan Premier] Reference
Even as the economy grew, the property rights system and the scarcity of land diverted almost all the gains to a landowning minority. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
This might appear strange, since under universal suffrage the non-taxpaying and non-landowning majority would be expected to dominate. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
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