Adjective : the propertied class. From Dictionary.com.
An idea attractive to many of the have not's (including many of the young) and anathema to the have's (the "propertied" class). From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Nonsense!" exclaimed the propertied man, brusquely. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Fundamentally a great portion of the propertied classes held. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
It was intended for the propertied classes, not for the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Howard Zinn] Reference
As a result the propertied classes were virtually exclusively White. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH DELIVERED BY ANDRIES NEL - DEPUTY CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY] Reference
"It's the unions that upset trade," asserted the propertied-looking man. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Sulla could not even enlist in the army — a man had to be propertied for that too. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
This is why, up to today, Black Africa has not yet developed a propertied middle class. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All social evils and injustices arose from the workers 'dependence on the propertied classes. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 20] Reference
Black propertied classes are expanding their positions within important sectors of the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Mayibuye - December 1997] Reference
"I could have just written him a check," she said, "but propertied women need to fight for themselves.". From Wordnik.com. [Sauce For The Goose] Reference
As a corporate lawyer, she was expected to play the role of defender of the propertied, moneyed interests. From Wordnik.com. [Mild About Harriet] Reference
In Hawaii the more influential and the propertied classes supported the revolution and desired annexation. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Africans had no bourgeois propertied class to lead them, he contended, but at best only an intelligentsia. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18] Reference
Though women in Britain could not vote, men from the propertied and middle classes enjoyed a full franchise. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH DELIVERED BY Z PALLO JORDAAN - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS] Reference
Brough revealed himself in the brilliant attacks on the propertied classes in which he indulged in his Liverpool journal. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Smuts, as minister of mines, made his first appearance as protector of the propertied class and of mine owners in particular. From Wordnik.com. [file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt] Reference
Tocqueville saw France drifting in June from political struggle to a social war of proletariat against the propertied classes. From Wordnik.com. [A Year of Living Dangerously] Reference
Indentured labour and other institutions that increased the points of contact were evil and served only the propertied classes. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 7] Reference
He lived in a society in which everything was controlled by the propertied and monied classes, a totalitarianism of the bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Marx Defended ~ Reluctantly] Reference
The owners of the stocks and bonds of the railroads and manufacturing combinations further swelled the ranks of the propertied class. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
As is customary, the target was the “radical movement” and its alleged threat “to the nation” (i.e., big propertied interests). From Wordnik.com. [Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was] Reference
To do it, they had to win over dissenting state representatives who wanted Bill of Rights protections for their own propertied interests. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Michael Parenti's Democracy For the Few] Reference
They get to party with the high and mighty, even impact their lives, but never really feel part of the club, of the true propertied class. From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: Blagojevich's Magnificent Downfall] Reference
The old-style propertied soldiers of Rome were mostly literate and numerate, so had no difficulty recognizing flags, numbers, letters, symbols. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
In a word, the propertied classes are getting a larger and larger share of the national income (see Mr. Churchill's language in preceding chapter). From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
This Executive Order is intended to target propertied Haitians who have supported the de facto regime and prolonged the suffering of the Haitian people. From Wordnik.com. [Statement On Haiti Sanctions] Reference
If the State monopolises them, not the State ruled by the propertied classes but the State ruled by the whole people, to work would become every man's right. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The relatively small size of the propertied class and an obvious community of interest tended to make its members reach a class consciousness even during the Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Certainly there are few modern countries where the "propertied minority," of which Bernstein speaks, constitutes a more serious obstacle to progress than it does in England. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
My classics tutor always said that pastoral idylls were not intended as accurate representations of the life of the poor, but as pleasing fantasies for the propertied classes. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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