Sentence examples for peasants control from inspiring English sources

It has never been made entirely clear whether officials, or peasants, control collective rights.

[A1.] A Tale of 2 Classes in China China has thousands of multimillionaires, but also a widening income gap as officials have chosen not to give peasants control over the land they farm.

The UN-sponsored peace accord includes provisions for transforming the FMLN into a political party and for distributing some of the land that came under peasant control to the peasants.

"A few families have a huge portion of the national land -- peasants are controlled by landlords," said Takahira Ogawa, director of sovereign ratings at Standard & Poor's in Singapore.

The peasants quickly took control of Paris and enforced their demands by kidnapping the royals.

Rogue landowners no doubt did their worst to serfs and peasants under their control.

They arose, he says, from demonstrations in Beijing and the countryside that began even while Mao was alive: peasants called for control over the crops they grew, and ordinary workers like Wei Jingsheng put their mark on Democracy Wall in 1978-79.

They also organized and controlled peasants' associations, labour unions, youth leagues, and women's associations.

The peasants, now allowed to control their property, began to work their holdings profitably.

"Now there is a fight between the Haitian bourgeoisie and peasants who want to control the land," the Haitian sociologist Bernard Etheart told me.

Appointed provisional president after the coup, Betancourt established a new constitution and inaugurated a program of moderate social reform, providing land for the peasants and exercising greater control over the petroleum industry.