Sentence examples for they were landless from inspiring English sources

But they were landless, uneducated and dark-skinned, and they had few prospects.

They tell the activists' stories and ask questions: Are the settlers better off than when they were landless?

But they are landless peasants who own their cars!

By 2010, nearly a quarter of them (22.5%) were landless.

By some estimates 300,000 peasants are landless.

This problem is acute in rural South Asia, where the majority of the world's poor live, and where the majority of those poor are landless.

A widow receives one-eighth of her husband's property if they have children and one-fourth if they do not.But to concentrate on the unfairness of the inheritance laws would be to ignore the broad majority of women (and men)—approximately two-thirds of Bangladesh's 160m people are landless.

These cities are undergoing rapid urbanization, and many peasants are landless.

Most of the farmers are in marginal situations with less than a hectare of land and 40% of them are landless.

Sara's parents were landless, and had travelled south to set up a farm.

On average, only 20% of arable farmers kept sheep, while 80% of the sheep producers were landless pastoralists.