Landowning

The military and landowning cliques in many South American countries will find it attractive financially to work with German fascist concerns as well as expedient from the standpoint of temporary power politics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The University of Hull in Britain, who keep archives related to the family, note that the Constables became one of the leading landowning families of Yorkshire in the 16th century but that their family wealth was compromised in the mid 17th century due to the recusancy fines they were subject to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you want "limited," in the way Berkowitz means it, disband the military and give all well-to-do landowning males a musket. ❋ Michael J.W. Stickings (2010)

The Left government led by Jyoti Basu that came to power in 1977 vanquished Bengal's landowning elite with reforms ensuring security of tenure to over 1.5 million sharecroppers and redistributing land among peasants. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yadav represented the Yadavs and Kumar was the face of the Kurmis, a landowning, backward- caste people. ❋ K.P. Narayana Kumar (2011)

An ancient way of life, the collaboration between landowning aristocrats and their peasant-tenants, is being undermined by the joint forces of political liberalism, antipapal secularism and a rising mercantile class. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

There were great landowning families, but their wealth did not automatically mean high political office, as it did for the dukes and counts of the feudal West. ❋ Superversive (2010)

The measure let landowning parishioners pay their taxes to the Anglican Church in cash rather than the usual tobacco (which drought had made unusually precious). ❋ Robert K. Landers (2010)

Despite the unglamorous setting and sedate pace, 5 million listeners a week in Britain – and others around the world over the Internet – follow the everyday travails of the landowning Archers, the working-class Grundys and their neighbors in the fictional village of Ambridge: Does that cow have mastitis? ❋ AP (2011)

During the years of French Mandate Syria, Abdulfattah Jandali was born to a large landowning family in the midland town of Homs in 1931. ❋ Sami Moubayed (2011)

Worse, because of the vociferous opposition of the landowning nobility, Catherine's effort to improve and eventually end the institution of serfdom came to naught. ❋ Robert K. Massie (2011)

The landowning aristocracy, far from "not deigning to dabble in trade," were eager entrepreneurs, using their excess capital to help make the Industrial Revolution happen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My father comes from a wealthy landowning family, my mother from simple farming folk. ❋ Vygaudas Usackas (2011)

A key factor enabling China's transformation "China Population Balance Tilts Urban," World News, Jan. 18 is the ability of landowning local governments to simply grab land instead of transferring ownership by means of a sales contract. ❋ Unknown (2012)

One of the biggest existing landowning and conservation bodies, the National Trust, has coincidentally launched a six-month consultation on whether the nation is losing touch with the countryside. ❋ Derek Brown (2010)

Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk were an ancient and powerful local landowning dynasty: it would have been in their interest to have a labouring-class writer lament the rick-burning by which starving rural labourers were protesting at the price of grain (kept artificially high by the interest of landowners in Parliament). ❋ Unknown (2009)