8 sentences with 'owed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word owed and other words derived from it.
• « Feudal lords, i.e. land-owning nobles, lived in "manors", a term that designated not only their royal houses but also the land they owned. All the peasants on their lands owed them rent, originally in the form of crops but eventually in cash, as well as a certain amount of labour each year. »
• « One Prussian recalled being taught, presumably in a church-run primary schools, that "the king could cut off the noses and ears of all his subjects if he so wished, and that we owed it to his goodness and his gentle disposition that we were left in possession of these necessary organs. »
• « Serfdom, which already existed in much of the east, hardened in the 17th century, and the free labour, fees and taxes that peasants owed to their lords became harsher (for example, the Austrian labour obligation was known as the "robot", and could consist of up to 100 days' work a year). »
• « Emancipation, however, had surprisingly little immediate impact on Russian society, because the serfs legally owed the government the money that had been distributed to buy their freedom from the nobility. Thus, for generations, the serfs remained tied to the same land, working both to survive and to repay the debt incurred with their "freedom". »
• « In addition, the former members of the Triple Entente themselves owed huge sums to the United States for loans they had received during the war, amounting to some $10 billion. »
• « Pennsylvania (Latin for "Penn's Woods") was created in 1681, when Charles II granted the largest proprietary colony in the Americas to William Penn to settle a large debt owed to the Penn family. »
• « In May 1775, Mecklenburg County in North Carolina issued the Mecklenburg Resolutions, which stated that a rebellion against Britain had begun, that the colonists no longer owed allegiance to Britain, and that governing authority had now passed to the Continental Congress. »