Sentence examples for orders of society from inspiring English sources

It delves into the cultural and legal processes that created orders of society as well as orders of knights.

Great landlords saw their revenues fall as a result of the Black Death, although probably by only about 10 percent, whereas for the lower orders of society real wages rose sharply by the last quarter of the 14th century because of low grain prices and high wages.

Particular sports developed along class lines: tennis and golf, at least in England, were played by the higher orders of society, and rugby was divided along the class lines, with rugby union for the higher classes and rugby league for the lower classes.

Representatives of the various orders of society, assembled in the Kremlin, declared themselves for Peter, who was then proclaimed tsar; but the Miloslavsky faction exploited a revolt of the Moscow streltsy, or musketeers of the sovereign's bodyguard, who killed some of Peter's adherents, including Matveyev.

Into the middle of it all bounds the cat-hating Sharik, who literally shatters the glass between the two orders of society before being hauled on to an operating table and subjected to Philip Philipovich's latest experiment, described in gruesome medical detail: to see what happens when a dog is implanted with the testicles and pituitary glands of a human.

He did so because he already had a large standing professional military he could call on, drawn primarily from the middling orders of society.

The economic recovery of the second half of the 16th century challenged the traditional hierarchical ordering of society.

They press certain questions about the ordering of society upon us in a counter-cultural way.

She stoutly defended a traditional hierarchical order of society, spiritual over material values, and the superiority of breeding to training.

When I first got the degree, I felt as if I had been inducted to a certain order of society.

The auditorium was planned in tiers, a vertical stratification that reflected the ordering of society by class.