Sentence examples for rural order from inspiring English sources
It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80percentt of the population was effectively bound to the land.
Her sense of dislocation, of drifting away from her roots to become an onlooker, helped give her the perspective to create what is perhaps the most intimate and persuasive account of the old rural order just before its transformation by modernism.
Some in Recife complain that he has learned that lesson too well and become a modern version of a traditional north-eastern coronel (political boss), shrinking from challenging the old rural order, trading support for jobs and favours and freezing out dissenters.But his defenders say he gets things done.
Both with him and on her own, Chris bears the drudgery of farming and the stifling norms of rural society in order to realize her private passion, one greater than romantic love or intellectual fulfillment: an ecstatic devotion to the land itself.
After 1902, thousands of landless families streamed into the cities, indicating the extent to which the prewar rural social order had crumbled.
In fruit and vegetable picking – which international backpackers must do for 88 days in a rural area order to qualify for a second-year working holiday visa – the degree of wage theft was extreme.
The Hongwu Emperor (ruled 136898) attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world.
The study population is described by: age groups (50 59, 60 69, 70 79, and 80-plus); sex (men and women); residence (urban vs. rural), and ordered quintiles of relative wealth.
These frontier imaginaries have been leveraged to exact social control and 'zealously order rural space' [Philo, C., 1992. Neglected rural geographies: a review. Journal of Rural Studies 8, 193 207, 197].
With rural finance, in order to help them manage risks.
We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
