tenant-farmers

The INL grew to become a formidable political machine built in the traditional political culture of rural Ireland, for it was an alliance of tenant-farmers, shopkeepers and publicans.

Daily Life in the British Parliament: Understanding the Political Parties | Edwardian Promenade 2008

We vassals are mere tenant-farmers, with a precarious claim on our little patch of dirt.

Boing Boing 2007

And then the Jews took their “worthless” land and wrung better crops from it than the Arab tenant-farmers were raising...

The Volokh Conspiracy » HITLER’S LEGACY: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: 2007

‘Well, I took the part of the tenant-farmers, of course, as the beloved of one should in duty do.’

A Changed Man 2006

My poor father insists upon my listening to all he has to say; since my brother left he has had nobody else to listen to him; and to-night he was particularly tedious on his usual topics — draining, and tenant-farmers, and the village people.

A Changed Man 2006

The owners of great estates were finding it more profitable to turn their tenant-farmers out and farm their own property with the help of the new machines-there were more hands to work the land than there were jobs to give them.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

In agriculture, the labor of slaves tended to be replaced by that of coloni (tenant-farmers), whose status was originally free but fell over time to that of being tied to the land.

5. The Later Empire, 284-527 C.E 2001

- All tenant-farmers will be required to furnish a deposit equivalent to three months 'rental under the lease, prior to the occupation of the land.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Part-time tenant-farmers will accordingly be permitted, provided that he/she is able to undertake farming activities consistently, productively and effectively.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Publicize names of all tenant-farmers identified as beneficiaries under the Gauteng Farmer Settlement Programme in the

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996