landowning

They came from a landowning family, the most hated class.

His family is one of the most powerful political and landowning families in Lebanon.

Both his parents came from prosperous merchant and landowning families.

They were at times one of the richest landowning families in England.

Though theoretically free, most common people remained subjects of the landowning class, with few rights.

Also, their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class.

"Are any of your ship's company of the landowning class as well?"

There are practically no friendly pictures of the landowning class, for instance.

In this way, the company is able to hand-pick the landowning electorate.

He came from a landowning family with patriotic traditions.

"We're not a landowning people, we don't want to be tied down."

They are still a landowning community, with many still being fairly large landowners.

In 1857 and 1858 the Maronites revolted against the large landowning families.

He was born to a landowning family near Sligo.

The other great Anglo-Irish landowning families had suffered as well.

But first, he, like his father, must contend with four other landowning families whose lives have crisscrossed the block for three decades.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, economic pressures on the large landowning classes increased noticeably.

His father was a professor, and his mother was the daughter of a landowning family.

The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.

This marked the moment when the middle classes entered government, displacing the landowning elite.

He also suggested the establishment of a colonial peerage drawn from the landowning class.

It is the link between the landowning high caste groups and occupational castes.

The landowning nobility successfully managed to oppose similar changes.

Their leaders had a generally wealthier, more conservative, monarchist, landowning background.

Society changed into an almost feudal relationship between landowning elites and bonded laborers.