property-owning

At first I had difficulty working out the logic of the setting: why, in particular, should Patrick Stewart's multi-millionaire property-owning, semi-assimilated Shylock feel an "ancient grudge" towards the local Christians?

The Merchant of Venice - review 2011

And a strike, under certain provocation, may extend as far as did the general strike in Belgium a few years since, when practically the entire wage-earning population stopped work in order to force political concessions from the property-owning classes.

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

Britain may once have been close to a property-owning democracy, but it is becoming a property-owning oligarchy.

Greed is still good for Britain's elite | Nick Cohen 2011

When they did, their living standards would rise each year, allowing them to buy a home, have children and find a secure place for themselves in a property-owning democracy.

Greed is still good for Britain's elite | Nick Cohen 2011

When they did, their living standards would rise each year, allowing them to buy a home, have children and find a secure place for themselves in a property-owning democracy.

Greed is still good for Britain's elite | Nick Cohen 2011

The social hierarchy, when our Constitution was written, went roughly like this: property-owning free white males; property-less free white males; indentured white males; white females; free non-white males; free non-white females; slaves (who were only counted as three-fifths of a person, for Census reasons); and then Native Americans (who weren't even counted at all).

Chris Weigant: Reading the Constitution Chris Weigant 2011

The social hierarchy, when our Constitution was written, went roughly like this: property-owning free white males; property-less free white males; indentured white males; white females; free non-white males; free non-white females; slaves (who were only counted as three-fifths of a person, for Census reasons); and then Native Americans (who weren't even counted at all).

Chris Weigant: Reading the Constitution Chris Weigant 2011

This shows how many people have won or lost, more dramatically than was possible before 1979, under the new rules of the "property-owning democracy".

So You Think You Know About Britain? by Danny Dorling - review 2011

The social hierarchy, when our Constitution was written, went roughly like this: property-owning free white males; property-less free white males; indentured white males; white females; free non-white males; free non-white females; slaves (who were only counted as three-fifths of a person, for Census reasons); and then Native Americans (who weren't even counted at all).

Chris Weigant: Reading the Constitution Chris Weigant 2011

Britain may once have been close to a property-owning democracy, but it is becoming a property-owning oligarchy.

Greed is still good for Britain's elite | Nick Cohen 2011