8 sentences with 'landowners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word landowners and other words derived from it.
• « Tiberius Gracchus, among others, was concerned that the common, free, farm-owning Roman would become extinct if the current trend of wealthy landowners taking over farms and replacing farmers with slaves continued. Without these commoners, Rome's armies would be drastically weakened. »
• « They were seasonal labourers, rented to wealthy landowners, or owned farms but were perpetually threatened by wealthy predators. »
• « There are numerous accounts of rich landowners simply forcing small farmers off the land and seizing it; »
• « the wealth of elite landowners grew approximately eightfold between AD 1 and 400, and there was almost no new wealth in the Roman economy during that period. »
• « Heraclius began by seizing land from wealthy landowners and monasteries in Asia Minor, and then used the seized lands as a base for new territories from which to recruit soldiers. »
• « Although peasants resented having to pay for access to the mills (which were generally controlled by landowners, often nobles or the Church), the huge increase in productivity meant that much more food was generally available. »
• « On 4 August 1789 the National Assembly voted to end feudal privileges (the rights of landowners to coerce the peasantry to work and pay various kinds of fees), on 14 August it abolished the sale of offices, and on 26 August it issued a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, modelled in part on the US Bill of Rights. »
• « Sicilian landowners, even the most reactionary, were forced to see that the only hope for law and order lay in the protection of this radical dictator and his revolution. Their gradual and reluctant transfer of allegiance to the insurrection was a decisive event and helped make possible the next phase of Garibaldi's astonishing conquest. »