Sentence examples for peasantry with from inspiring English sources

He built enormous castles, loved the music of Richard Wagner, and amazed the peasantry with his caprices.

In the early years of the 20th century, Ireland had a larger and poorer peasantry, with lower productivity, than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

In the late 19th century the political conflict pitted three protagonists: tsarism, the peasantry (with the working class, its subdivision), and the intelligentsia.

To Bakunin, the mission of the revolutionary was destruction; he looked to the Russian peasantry, with its propensities for violence and its uncurbed revolutionary instincts, rather than to the effete, civilized workers of the industrial countries.

When the Communists took full control in 1978, they thought they could win over the vast Afghan peasantry with a crash program of land reform and eradication of illiteracy -- backed up by a brutal ruthlessness.

A self-proclaimed leader, usually an army officer, heading a private army typically formed from the peasantry with the support of provincial landowners, established his control over one or more provinces, and then marched upon the national capital.

When demonstrations staged by Tonghak followers calling for social reform met with a negative government response, the peasantry united with them in a rebellion that succeeded in defeating government troops in southern Korea.

Starting in the 19th Century, writes historian Forrest Hylton in Evil Hour in Colombia, "sectors of the peasantry identified with whiteness and capitalist progress secured property rights and political incorporation".

At its best, their fourth album shows that even such unashamedly retro stylings can still sound exciting, as on the pounding The Simple Life, even if the lyrics are at times hilariously anachronistic ("He lives with the peasantry/ She lives with the higher class" – who knew 21st-century Australian society was so feudal?).

To some extent these forces emanate from the peasantry, whose ties with the land are under threat.

Herds of these sheep were controlled by the wealthy and allowed to migrate throughout the country; the sheep had the freedom to graze where they pleased and peasantry who interfered with the sheep could be brought to private tribunals.