Sentence examples for landless of from inspiring English sources

Dorothy lived in Brazil for 39 years, challenging a system that robs the Brazilian landless of dignity, and the land of its sustainability.

While the light shines brightly on Operation Green Hunt, in other parts of India, away from the theatre of war, the assault on the rights of the poor, of workers, of the landless, of those whose lands the government wishes to acquire for "public purpose", will pick up pace.

Both the PLC and MST claim these ranchers are hiring militias and gunmen to keep the landless out of the company's sight.

Elements of this program included the distribution of the landless citizens of Rome among the tribes, which at that time constituted basic political units.

It would have strengthened royal power, made all officials answerable to the Sejm, placed the clergy and their finances under state supervision, and deprived landless szlachta of many of their legal immunities.

It had also helped raise the minimum wage levels for 86 lakh (8.6 million) landless laborers of the state, which has been one of the better implementers of the central scheme.

But several hundred million Africans remain little more than landless tenants of the state, in the eyes of national laws.

"The landless peasants of 50 years ago," Carmichael writes, "are mostly dead, as are most of those who oppressed them, but others have taken their place.

But it shows that in the one great landless country of seafarers, the association went far deeper than it might seem.

Employment generated by the scheme helped landless members of the community increase their income from less than US$40 to US$360 per year - a nine-fold gain in a span of just seven years.

In recent years, similar extreme events can be often seen in newspapers, serving as a reminder of the concerns of landless peasants and the sense of urgency in the situation.