Sentence examples for the junker from inspiring English sources
noun
A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
The grain tariffs provided the Junker estate owners of Prussia, who constituted the main opposition to political reform, subventions that isolated them somewhat from the world market.
Up to a point Frederick tried to protect the peasants and the soldiers against the demands of the Junker landlord-officers.
"Land reform" meant overthrowing an evil class.Much was wrong in the Chinese countryside, especially after decades of war, but the junker class which the Communists attacked happened not to exist.
For the constitution drafted by Bismarck for the Second Reich was a dysfunctional document designed to satisfy middle-class nationalism while preserving the power of the Prussian crown and the Junker class (the Prussian landed aristocracy).
They are the junker's best of show.
After looking through hundreds of thousands of items, we felt the junker's tingle in a scraggly crescent of grass and gravel with nothing else even remotely attractive for sale.
The Junkers, like the Japanese, chose the latter course.
His 1968 novel, The Junkers, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and dealt with post-war Germany.
At the time it was an industrial boom town, the base of the Junkers aeroplane company.
The Junkers Ju-87 was a German dive-bomber and multirole tactical aircraft used to support ground forces.
In Weber's view, however, the existing liberal parties were in no position to challenge and replace the Junkers.
