Sentence examples for landed class from inspiring English sources

A Celtic race, the Gauls lived in an agricultural society divided into several tribes ruled by a landed class.

He continued, however, until 1740 to keep the land tax at a low rate, thereby winning important support from the nation's dominant landed class.

Bishop Ruiz's Zapatista sympathies also earned him enemies among the landed class in Chiapas and the Indians who opposed the rebels.

By then it had largely captured the Conservative Party, which in the Reichstag (parliament) represented the economic self-interest of Germany's landed class.

Sewanee, as the school is known, was conceived, by an Episcopal bishop turned Confederate general, as an élite institution of learning for the sons of the landed class.

It was a world in which the landed class sounded entirely English, sent its sons to English boarding schools and traveled to London for medical attention, but nonetheless described itself as Irish.

The landed classes, who constructed this country in the manner of the French.

"Rural areas in Scotland used to be Liberal or even Conservative with the landed classes.

Historically, the landed classes flocked to London each year to spend "the season" in the proximity of the court.

She was born to Major-General Sir John Swinton, into the landed classes, and was sent to boarding school at 10.

As a result, the burden of taxation in England was probably the highest in the country's history, much of it borne by the politically influential landed classes.