7 sentences with 'tracts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tracts and other words derived from it.
• « They allied themselves with other rich and powerful people, who owned large tracts of land, to try to keep the plebeians, Roman citizens who were not of patrician origin, at bay. »
• « A land commission set up by Tiberius Gracchus remained intact until 118 BCE, by which time it had redistributed huge tracts of land held illegally by the wealthy. »
• « In the future, many monasteries became economic powerhouses, owning large tracts of land and selling their produce at a healthy profit. »
• « Whole regions were depopulated and vast tracts of farmland became barren; it took until around 1700 for the German Empire to begin to recover economically. »
• « The First Estates, made up of the clergy, ran not only the churches, but also education, huge tracts of land in the hands of the church and monasteries, orders such as the Jesuits and Benedictines, and great influence in royal government. »
• « The Catholic Church, the only church in Europe at the time, also owned vast tracts of land and became very rich by collecting not only tithes (taxes consisting of 10 per cent of annual profits) but also rents from its lands. »
• « Expansionists chose to believe that the purchase included vast tracts of land, including all of Spanish Texas. However, the Spanish government disagreed. »