Sentence examples for small peasants from inspiring English sources

England resolved its land problems by the enclosure movement, which drove the small peasants into the towns, consolidated landholdings, and promoted large-scale operation and private ownership.

Wide disparities in income and discriminatory laws in cities as well as the deteriorating standard of living of small peasants and agricultural labourers caused riots and uprisings, which by the early 1500s had become endemic.

A statement by the protesters, who call themselves the Sunflower Movement, said: "Regardless of the political division between pro-unification with China and those pro-independence for Taiwan, this trade agreement will allow large capital to devour the majority of small peasants, labourers and small businesses, not to mention the difficulties the future generation of Taiwan will face".

To turn small peasants against large landowners, collectivization was not introduced in Lithuania.

In addition, small-scale peasants acquired some of this land through resale by the original buyers.

But overall the urban middle classes and large-scale peasants emerged with the bulk of this land, to the intense frustration of small-scale peasants.

"Many athletes come from poor backgrounds, small peasant farming communities.

Small peasant farmers tended to till the lighter, less-productive, more easily worked soils.

American agricultural subsidies are seen by some as crushing small peasant farmers and stifling competition.

The accompanying text criticized the local culture: "With hundreds and thousands of years of feudal peasant habits, there is a pronounced trend toward small peasant thinking..

The accompanying text criticized the local culture: "With hundreds and thousands of years of feudal peasant habits, there is a pronounced trend toward small peasant thinking...