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Peasantry in sentence

23 examples of Peasantry in a sentence

And the connotation of peasantry, real people, salt of the Earth, has persisted around Saxon words.
But far from stabilizing the monarchy’s authority, Rasputin’s death enraged the peasantry.
The Prussian peasantry said, "We can't even get the dogs to eat these damn things.
If Jean Renoir's first film "Whirlpool of Fate" first takes us into the world of the countryside, the rivers, the lives of the peasantry that he will continue to explore, it seems only fitting that his second film deals for the most part with the wealthy and the privileged, the upper classes and those who are trying to claw their way upwards.
It is regrettable that, instead of rising to the challenge of developing agriculture in a way that is more socially and environmentally sustainable, we act as if accelerating the destruction of the global peasantry could be accomplished responsibly.
China was growing, but median living standards were not clearly in excess of those of China’s so-called “golden years” of the early 1950’s, after land redistribution and before forced collectivization turned the peasantry into serfs.
And yet are the aristocrats of the information age - the tv newsreaders, the owners of the great multi-media conglomerates, the political candidates and office-holders, presiding like lords of old over a bewildered electronic peasantry?
Expanded autonomy for enterprises and the peasantry were critical first steps whose success led eventually to full-blown economic reform.
As China’s Premier, Zhao implemented ten years of economic reforms that brought steady progress in which the people, especially the peasantry, enjoyed tangible improvements.
Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry: these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.
Today’s fundamentalism is a modern way of being religious, more suitable to a literate, urban population than a peasantry guided by traditional religious scholars.
If national pride demands eternal Polish ownership of Polish land, and thus scuttles membership in the EU, Poland will be condemned to a future as a kind of a gigantic museum of the peasantry.
Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, the peasantry has been the country's most under-represented and manipulated social group, bearing the brunt of the Communists' promotion of heavy industry.
But WTO membership does not come at the expense of agriculture, for it promises to erode rather than reinforce the peasantry's legacy of discrimination and powerlessness.
Indeed, it was the peasantry that fired the first shot in the reform campaign that has transformed China in the decades since.
It will, at long last, liberate the peasantry from the greatest historical burden it bears-the dead hand of a state that dotes on its inefficient industrial proletariat.
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.
Class structure took a typical East European form: German landlords, a Jewish merchant and financial class, and a “native” peasantry.
Worse still, its subvention would only go to landholding farmers with two hectares of fields or less, not to the landless peasantry or farm laborers, and not at all to the urban poor.
The revenues of the monastery, of which a large part was at his disposal, while they gave him the means of supplying his own very considerable expenses, afforded also those largesses which he bestowed among the peasantry, and with which he frequently relieved the distresses of the oppressed.
Mr. Rivers came up as, having seen the classes, now numbering sixty girls, file out before me, and locked the door, I stood with the key in my hand, exchanging a few words of special farewell with some half-dozen of my best scholars: as decent, respectable, modest, and well-informed young women as could be found in the ranks of the British peasantry.
And that is saying a great deal; for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe: since those days I have seen paysannes and Bauerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls.
It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other—it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the “House of Usher”—an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion.