What is "landowners"

Usage examples of "landowners".

That lets large landowners stiff taxpayers for attorney fees, consultants and witness expenses.

Behind the scenes are a few landowners who deserve scorn, not sympathy.

And Colonel Martlett, representing the older Tory policy of: What the devil would happen to the landowners if they did?

Boards would be formed in every county on which such model landowners as Sir Gerald Malloring, or Lord Settleham himself, would sit, to apply the principles of goodwill.

He could have agreed, he said, if he had not noticed that Lord Settleham, and nearly all landowners, were thoroughly satisfied with their existing good-will and averse to any changes in their education that might foster an increase of it.

He himself believed that the land question, like any other, was only capable of settlement through improvement in the spirit of all concerned, but he found it a little difficult to credit Lord Settleham and the rest of the landowners with sincerity in the matter so long as they were unconscious of any need for their own improvement.

It would be years before the young trees would become wholly productive, so Jack took to spending several days a week working for neighbouring landowners, including Pat McNamara.

Jack was still working for other landowners, and Anna began to wonder when he would finally be able to spare the time to develop their own property.

McNamaras were wealthy landowners, their social standing was on a par with that of prosperous tradesmen.

After all, she knew him to be a good man, kind even to his tenants when many landowners were not.

The first related to the agricultural policy of the present government, which was of great concern to all landowners, and the second to the business of the new Zoological Society of London, which he hoped to join.

He had legislated to protect them from the depredations of greedy wives, confidence tricksters and gobbling landowners by forbidding them to sell their portions for twenty years.

He generally preferred to steal horses from landowners or tradespeople.

Its walls still stood, but after its final abandonment by the landowners and their councils, its roof had collapsed, and birds nested in the glass-free frames of its gaping windows.

Carausias and the other landowners had a deepening dread that the towns were simply becoming irrelevant to the lives of the people in the countryside, on whom, in the end, everything depended.