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Mubarak treated Egypt as if it was his own estate, its people his serfs.

He had Will Scarlett, his head man, armed in like fashion and out rousing the serfs while Guy and his hand were still half a mile distant.

Dalai's "Middle Way" is to restore his past heaven and put millions of already emancipated serfs back to the dark cage.

At the bottom of the feudal scale were the villains or serfs, unfree peasants who were little better than slaves.

Here, the feudal way of life has become so entrenched that the serfs are as tied to the land as cattle, and with almost as few rights.

It was unimaginable to either serfs or nobles [that nobility and titles could cease to be a means to wealth].

Children of serfs were registered the moment they were born, setting their life-long fate as serfs.

When the title deeds for land and debt contracts were thrown into the fire, the former serfs danced around the blaze.

a group of peasants and house - serfs were coming across the meadow , uncovering their heads as they drew near prince andrey.

Pride of place goes to a diorama showing former serfs merrily chucking "feudal documents" into the fire.

The house serfs on the way, in reply to inquiries where the prince was living, pointed to a small new lodge at the very edge of the pond.

To China, however, Tibet was a backward society of feudal landlords that kept its farmers--90% of the population--illiterate serfs.

Such an obligation, Overall objects, "would make women into procreative serfs. "

I, Chiang Kai-shek, own these peaches, " he says, " I am the landlord, you are my serfs and I won't allow you to pick any.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free some serfs some rulers some subjects.

By 2100 there will be a tiny global elite, a small technologist class, a biggish enforcer class and a mass of serfs.

Having smashed the yoke of the feudal serfdom, the broad masses of serfs and slaves obtained political and national equal rights.

The belief encouraged the chief of the serfs from the gulf to jump from the cliff onto the roof to search for the proof in the safe .

The broad masses of slaves and serfs did not have any personal freedom, and even their right to life was not guaranteed.

This they did, Scarlett and the serfs heaving most mightily until they had the kicking, struggling steward placed.

Since the reform, there are no longer any serfs or serf owners in Tibet.

The cultivators of the soil were serfs, belonging to the king, the aristocracy, or the priesthood.

Serfs and slaves need no longer satisfy the appetites of narrow elites.

Until 1959, when the Dalai Lama last presided over Tibet, most of the arable land was still organized into manorial estates worked by serfs.

After the emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II in 1861, medical academies in St. Petersburg began admitting women.

All farming lands were owned by nobles, who then gave their land to their serfs, a situation similar to European feudalism.

But Robin stood against Guy of Gisborne with his sword, and Scarlett and the serfs stood round.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.

Most Tibetan cadres are emancipated serfs and slaves. There are also some patriots from the upper class.

And the conquered Europeans would add to the Mongols' stocks of serfs and soldiery.

When common men were slaves and serfs, they obeyed andthey were fed, but they died by thousands in plagues and famines.

Serfs from surrounding areas were paid wages for work on the road.

In those days, the serfs in Tibet were burdened with heavy taxes and debts.

In addition, the monasteries owned a large amount of private property, including serfs and slaves.

The serfs could not aspire to buying farm tools, let alone draught animals.

By some estimates, we modern Information Age serfs need to work twice as many hours to do the same thing.

The specific rights and obligations of masters and serfs vary significantly over time and from place to place.

It is half a century since Beijing liberated the thankful serfs of Tibet.

She is the illegitimate children of an unmarried female serfs.

He went to kill priests ignorance, the liberation of serfs, with people claiming how everyone is equal.

I would like to stress that, 49 years ago, the Chinese Government launched democratic reform in Tibet and liberated millions of serfs.

One German naturalist dubbed the rodents the people's "poor serfs. "

Who made them serfs of the soil?

Many serfs were forcedto work hard.

The serfs cowered before the lordof the manor.

The Chinese government argues that one million serfs were freed when Beijing dissolved the old Tibetan government in 1959.

rd Serfs Emancipation Day Tibet autonomous region herdsman

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