Landowning in a sentence

Edward Humber, spoke on behalf of both landowning families involved, stating that both farms on which the solar farm would be built are on low grade land.

It is not a handout, it is an investment to empower our landowning communities to tap their assets and entrepreneurial spirit to make themselves financially powerful.

Although the vast majority of the Irish population was Catholic, only Protestants could sit in the Irish Parliament and only landowning men could vote.

Born into an extremely wealthy landowning family in northern Mexico, Madero was an unusual politician, who until he ran for president in the 1910 elections, had never held office.

Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists.

Haiti's constitution forbade whites from owning land, and the major landowning families were forcibly deprived of their properties.

In the cartoon, a passive citizen is holding a spade and a wealthy landowning active citizen is ordering the passive citizens to go to work.

Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education.

Russians At the time of Catherine’s reign, the landowning noble class owned the serfs, who were bound to the land they tilled.

The peasants were not passive; they were proud of their traditions and would band together and fight to uphold their traditional rights in the face of burdensome taxes from the king or new demands by the landowning nobility.

The power of the Sima clan, one of the great landowning families of the Han dynasty, was bolstered by Sima Yi's military victories.

This early development of a society with a majority of small, landowning farmers and entrepreneurs created a stronger middleclass in Nevis than in Saint Kitts where the sugar industry continued until 2006.

This outlook influenced the Judahite landowning elite, who became extremely powerful in court circles after they placed the eight-year-old Josiah on the throne following the murder of his father.

Until recent decades, Somerset's reputation with historians was high, in view of his many proclamations that appeared to back the common people against a rapacious landowning class.

When he began to realize that the financial crisis was even greater than he had thought, Yongzheng rejected his father's lenient approach to local landowning elites and mounted a campaign to enforce collection of the land tax.