“landed gentry”造句，怎麼用landed gentry造句

Although the vote was extended, power was still in the hands of the landed gentry and men of property. For many this did not go far enough.

Even in southern states, where the landed gentry still held sway, the growth of urban middle and working classes led to the demand for the vote free of property qualifications.

The emperor reigned supreme in the feudal state, appointing officials in charge of the armed forces, the law courts, the treasury and state granaries in all parts of the country and relying on the landed gentry as the mainstay of the entire system of feudal rule.

Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.

He was descended from Hudson Valley landed gentry and millionaire New York merchants, and went to Groton and Harvard.

Just as the Manchu court had found strong men (11) in the landed gentry of Central China to crush the Taiping Rebellion, the foreign powers and their agents, the compradors, now found a strong man in Chiang Kai-shek to subjugate the Chinese.

His father was a wealth sugar planter and his mother came from the Cuban landed gentry.

The white, male landed gentry could vote.

They are well-bred ladies and gentlemen-- if not in the highest rank of society, the aristocracy, then members of the landed gentry.