What is "landholders"

Usage examples of "landholders".

Tharion swept his pale gaze over the gathered people, hesitating on the calm figures of Hektor Carsus and Janine Bondalar, then moved on to glance at the other landholders, each standing separate from their rivals in the crowd.

Council, some landholders have still attempted to settle disputes through violence, or to usurp lands or resources that have not been distributed to them.

The Landholders Council and the Guild Mediators had been brought in and were even now working to settle the dispute.

Truthsayers Guild, a friend as well as one of the most powerful landholders on Atlas.

While many of the other landholders had flocked to assure Tharion of their loyalty, Franz Dokken had been there all along, giving him insightful advice on the new burdens he would have to bear.

As Guild Master, he had done mercifully few truthsayings in the past two years, spending more time with the Landholders Council, advising the telepathic Mediators, and overseeing the crimes and punishments determined by his Truthsayers.

Tharion maintained an impassive expression, since landholders always complained about their rivals.

It was a bad precedent to set, letting landholders deal directly with each other, rather than keeping them separate and at odds, forced to funnel all their commerce through First Landing.

By that time, Franz Dokken expected to have reduced Atlas society to a shambles, crushed every one of the rival landholders, and picked up the pieces in his own hands.

Tharion scanned a small lapscreen, intent on notes and files, probably from recent Landholders Council meetings.

Then he remembered that a long and complex meeting of the Landholders Council was being held in the lower briefing chambers, and his wife would probably come back frazzled and disgusted at the uncooperative representatives.

He sat back in one of the audience seats, alone but certainly not unnoticed, as he watched the Landholders Council session in progress.

Qrista said as the gray-haired man shrugged back his hood and stood silently in front of the Landholders Council, his head bowed.

With the establishment of the Guild a century ago, the landholders all agreed to a delegation of authority, a dispersal of responsibilities.

Historically, the landholders had been notorious for their lack of cooperation, but here they showed some common ground.