Sentence examples for some peasants from inspiring English sources

Some peasants who disliked Mr Yan had voted for Mr Zhang hoping that this would stir up a feud.

Some peasants retained their independence, as in the Massif Central and the Pyrenees, although they were not necessarily better off than serfs in more prosperous regions.

Some peasants (though here perhaps more the hims than the hers) might also feel a little ambivalent about the decline of violence.

When I was there in February, I heard that some peasants were surviving on one meal a day, and a knowledgeable woman spoke of the conditions that might lead to famine.

There are no jobs, some peasants spend their entire day leading a cow around on a rope to graze, and Karapchiv lacks any factory to take advantage of labor that can cost as little as $1 a day.

The World Food Programme estimates that 4.8m people more than a third of the population will need food aid this year.Incognito, your correspondent spoke to some peasants in a ruling-party stronghold in Mashonaland, who said that if there was going to be a bumper harvest this year, they had not seen any signs of it.

Barbarina and some peasant girls, including Cherubino in disguise, come to serenade the Countess.

It notes that in some peasant communities Mr Morales won almost 100% of the votes in the recall referendum.

The dispute and Mr. Chávez's heated language has already led some peasant farmers to invade large ranches.

Some peasant department of France full of half-wits in chateaux; some crumbling Indian palace-city, or some dead colonial town in a hopeless South American country.

If you're a king in New York and you ask some peasant how to get to Carnegie Hall, you think he's going to crack wise and answer "practice"?