Sentence examples for peasants it from inspiring English sources

ReprintsThe AUC is infamous for slaughtering peasants it suspects of sympathising with the guerrillas.

While this process provided security for the peasants, it also strengthened the control over them by both lay and ecclesiastical lords.

Peasants, it said, should have the right to negotiate their own price for land appropriated from them.Isolated groups of peasants elsewhere followed suit, including some in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Tianjin.

Founded in 1984, the landless movement, which claims 1.5 million members nationwide, is today a formidable political and social force with a substantial war chest that comes from tithes paid by peasants it has successfully resettled.

"They're all peasants, it's a backward country".

He says "While dancing may appear innocuous or natural for peasants, it poses a palpable threat to the human soul.

We believe that, with education, awareness-raising, and community organizing among Salvadoran peasants, it's possible to reverse our [agricultural] history.

But to a village peasant it is a menace to his cows and goats and a threat to the safety of himself and his family, while a game hunter regards it as a magnificent quarry demanding all his skill.