Example collocations logo

Landlords in sentence

39 examples of Landlords in a sentence

In many cities, 90 percent of the landlords in housing court have attorneys, while 90 percent of the tenants do not.
Additionally, he never interviews the landlords of the tenants filmed.
Central to the story is Xavier ( Romain Duris),who may have lived a rather conventional life with his mother in France, but who quickly becomes a leader in the group, helping them deal with landlords and other problems.
The story is about three people sharing a flat living above their landlords George and Mildred.
Moreover, the guy is a bit creepy, and soon it appears his aim is not just to live rent free but also to provoke his landlords into legally punishable actions against him, and maybe even to con his way to gaining possession of their entire house.
If these fundamental institutions were right, then landlords, merchants, and manufacturers would invest and improve.
Privatization of urban real estate will save the businesses from the constant demand for payoffs by local officials, who as landlords can extract bribes by threatening to repossess the premises.
The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the peasants down and widen the surplus – for, after all, they cannot make more land.
Instead of constantly fearing for their livelihoods, self-employed people, such as small-scale producers and vendors, could engage in more strategic decision-making, taking advantage of their enhanced bargaining power against traders, middlemen, creditors, and landlords.
Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.
In many castes of low ritual rank, landlords, prosperous cultivators and traders were found, some of whom actually paid income tax.
It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
This may not be a problem in countries with well-developed housing markets, where there are plenty of rental properties available from professional landlords.
After all, in such markets, renters can find housing with security of tenure at price levels that are predictable, even as they evolve gradually over time according to market conditions, thereby ensuring that landlords have incentives to maintain the properties.
In recent decades, senior military officers have been transformed into powerful landlords through grants of choice agricultural lands and real estate.
In his view, the post-crisis economic policies being carried out in the United States, Europe, and Japan are putting a ceiling on long-term interest rates that is “much like the effect of a price ceiling in a rental market where landlords reduce the supply of rental housing.”
When a government agency imposes a rent ceiling, it prohibits landlords from charging more than a set amount.
This distorts the market, leaving empty apartments that landlords would be willing to rent at higher prices and preventing renters from offering what they are truly willing to pay.
It is often forgotten that many Tibetans, especially educated people in the larger towns, were so keen to modernize their society in the mid-twentieth century that they saw the Chinese Communists as allies against rule by holy monks and serf-owning landlords.
And landlords pay a 15% tax on rents, while unskilled workers pay a 23% tax on their meager incomes.
The "representatives" of the peasants are the new landlords.
When the idea of "one-person one-vote" arose, feudal landlords predicted chaos in the decision-making process.
Across Africa, the economic costs of discrimination are increasing, in line with growing pressure on employers, landlords, health-care providers, educational institutions, and others to exclude LGBT people.
But they often do much more: they provide unnecessary support to middle-class households – or, worse, subsidize landlords indirectly by helping tenants pay the rent.
In the West, capitalism and democracy progressed in tandem, as the development of markets reduced the power of landlords and increased that of the working and middle classes.
We have seen in the past the extent to which such conflicts – between rich and poor, landlords and industrialists, or capital and labor – can hamper development.
For example, a system developed for landlords has helped to double the number of taxpayers reporting rental income.
After all, in early-nineteenth-century Britain, growing inequality caused by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to movements for government regulation in the interests of the middle and working classes, and for a rebalancing of real incomes away from rich landlords.
But Adam Smith in 1776, and David Ricardo a little later, looked forward to a future Britain that looked a lot like China – a full country with high agricultural productivity and a well-developed division of labor but a very poor peasantry and working class ruled by very rich landlords.
Farmland and seeds, pre-modern forms of capital, were collectively developed through generations of peasant endeavor that landlords appropriated by stealth.