Burghers in a sentence

Although not clear enough, it seems, for the poor burghers toiling in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Nicky Mayhew, co-chair of the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association, said it would be easy to caricature those fighting the corporation as the well-heeled burghers of Hampstead opposed to change.

It leaves most of the amenity untouched, it does not threaten the trees and it respects the existing installations — chiefly, the Buxton Slavery Memorial and Rodin’s Burghers of Calais.

It will hurt all of us, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, and Burghers equally.

One of the first documents he issued during his second rule was aimed at the burghers of Brasov.

Additionally, the burghers were uneasy about the prospect of denuding their homeland of its defences by sending the field army – roughly half of the total peace-time strength of the Dutch States Army of about 30,000 – overseas.

A few armed burghers and their African allies, hostile to her government, were still active at times.

As a consequence vast numbers of people mostly Burghers left the country to live abroad as they rightfully felt discriminated against.

Between March 8 and 11, about 70 burghers and various women and children chose to surrender to Allenby rather than face the Swazis.

By 6 June 1561, they submitted to him, contrary to the persuasions of Kettler to the burghers.

By June 6, 1561 they submitted to him contrary to the persuasions of Kettler to the burghers.

Claiming the result was the indiscriminate murders of Burghers, women and children by Swazi commandos.

Copperplate by Frans Hogenberg seeAlso After Gustav Vasa's siege of Stockholm, he restored the privileges of the city which was beneficiary to the burghers of the city.

During the following decade, pressure on the Khoikhoi grew as more of the Dutch became free burghers, expanded their landholdings, and sought pastureland for their growing herds.

Even though some burghers had secondary residences outside the city, the population living on the ridges, perhaps a quarter of the city's population, were mostly poor, including the royal personnel occupying the ridges north of the city.

He negotiated a continued peace with Muscovy and spoke to the burghers of Reval city.

In 1889, The Burghers of Calais was first displayed to general acclaim.

In 1895, Calais succeeded in having Burghers displayed in their preferred form: the work was placed in front of a public garden on a high platform, surrounded by a cast-iron railing.

Indeed, in Mbandzeni's coronation Rudolf, the Resident Magistrate of Ladysmith and former landdrost of Utrecht in the company of about 350 burghers and 70 wagons, attended the ceremony.

In the German-speaking regions both the aristocracy and "burghers" (non-noble free citizens) used arms, while in most of the rest of Europe they were limited to the aristocracy.