8 sentences with 'estates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word estates and other words derived from it.
• « Married noblewomen managed their estates, a necessity given how closely nobles' social identity revolved around warfare, while noble widows sometimes served as formal feudal vassals to more powerful lords, even occasionally leading troops when called into service. »
• « Under the viceroys were wealthy nobles (often originally successful conquistadors) who ran encomiendas, feudal estates with the legal right to exploit native labour. These often grew into even larger haciendas, the size of entire states in Europe. »
• « Russian estates were even sold according to the number of serfs ("souls") they contained rather than the physical size of the plot. »
• « The Estates General were a meeting of representatives of the three estates - clergy, nobility and all others - at which the French king could ask for tax revenues in exchange for various negotiations and promises (often a promise not to ask for more taxes in the future). This had not happened for more than 150 years, and therefore no living Frenchman had any experience of what to expect. »
• « Before the estates met, many voters and their representatives drew up lists of grievances demanding relief from unfair financial burdens imposed by the nobility, better representation for citizens and peasants, and royal intervention on behalf of the people of France, among other things. »
• « In turn, voting was by estates, not by proportional representation, and the first and second estates generally joined together to outvote the third. Thus, the small minority of the population consisting of nobles and clerics could always outvote the majority of the population in this traditional voting system. »
• « Garibaldi succeeded because he won the support of the Sicilian peasants by suspending taxes and promising to divide up the large estates and distribute the land. »
• « The Spanish parliament pushed through laws formally separating church and state (for the first time in Spanish history) and redistributed land to the poor, taken from the huge estates of the wealthier nobles. »