Sentence examples for peasant over from inspiring English sources

Yet, in the years that followed, during the Civil War, Trotsky travelled the countryside whipping up support for the nascent Red Army by claiming the Revolution as a triumph for the people, a victory of the miserable and impoverished Russian peasant over his once — and, were the Bolshevik project to fail, future — overlords.

The peasants turned over much of their produce to the nobles in return for military protection.

The novel even ends with descriptions of a kind of Occupy movement — though one with higher stakes — as peasants take over farm estates whose owners have relocated rather than pay their workers a living wage.

SIR — The term "multiculturalism" simply had to be invented to explain the existence of a group that eschewed integration, namely the Moslem peasants brought over as cheap labour to the mills and factories of Northern England from Pakistan (including the then East Pakistan).

Furthermore, the conflict sent hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees streaming eastward into Anatolia, intensifying conflict between Muslims and Christian peasants over land.

But people are immeasurably freer now than they were 30 years ago.Every year sees tens of thousands of protests many by peasants over official land grabs.

A fine soundtrack for roasting peasants over a spit but if you don't want to get overly medieval at Christmas you might find this more twee than a roomful of Tweenies dressed in tweed.

More perceptively, Theodore White, then a reporter for Time, who visited Yan'an in 1944, concluded that the Communists were "masters of brutality" but had won peasants over to their side.

In the 1990s in Russia and eastern Europe, neofascist movements were generally more leftist than their counterparts in western Europe, emphasizing the interests of workers and peasants over those of the urban middle class and calling for "mixed" socialist and capitalist economies.

I began my completion playthrough – actually my second, as I never finished the first (50 hours clocked, no conclusion) – as a heartless bastard, screwing peasants over for as much coin as I could to rid their villages of beastly infestations; but it didn't take long for a more honourable streak to run through my game.

"I invite my peasant neighbors over and explain to them how hydroponics can allow them to feed their families and, who knows, maybe even produce vegetables for export," Mr. Benoit said.