Sentence examples for on serfs from inspiring English sources

Mezlekia does pause at times to spell out the fictional realities of this precolonial Africa -- the "threat to the establishment" from an "egalitarian culture and its influence on serfs and slaves," the endlessly bitter resentment at taxes, the tensions between vassals and the slaves they resemble all too closely.

In a series of 'special reports' on Serf Liberation Day one article heading reads, Tibet sees harmonious ties between armed police, local residents.

Twentieth-century Marxist historians blamed the manorial economy based on serf labour for pauperizing the masses and undermining the towns, yet the Polish economy was not unique in that respect.

Even though few in China will hear about it, the majority of Tibetans in Tibet will have their own spin on Serf Liberation Day, which will inevitably buck the Party line.

Landowners were taxed on their payroll of serfs, which included those who had died between tax-assessments.

And when the curtain goes up on a gaggle of serfs busily cleaning house, they bring to mind some vintage Ruritanian romance in which peasants burst into happy song.

Serf Emancipation Day will "mark the date on which about one million serfs in the region were freed 50 years ago," Xinhua reported, adding that 90percentt of the Tibetan population in the 1950s was serfs or slaves.

The increasing defense costs fell primarily on the serfs: the rent on the land was raised and extraordinary taxes were imposed.

The elitism is almost as rife as at Madison Square Garden: royalty on the bottom, serfs on top.

Tolstoy was basically accused of writing the equivalent of "Gone with the Wind," a glorification of a lost world of privilege — the major characters are all nobility — whose existence rested on the backs of millions of serfs.

This paper presents the main components of the evaluation on accident, performed in the framework of the Studies on Socio-Economic Research on Fusion SERF under the EURATOM agreement.