(1) It was likewise only freemen who were protected from arbitrary imprisonment and dispossession by chapter 39.
(2) The principle he invoked was put to good use in 1996, when a standoff with a group called the Montana Freemen ended peacefully after 81 days, and again in 1997 in a week-long drama involving hostages held by a group calling itself the Republic of Texas .
(3) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
(4) Written by Robin Miller of Birmingham University and Tim Freemen of Middlesex University, and turned into a digital tool by us at the Social Care Institute for Excellence , the resource is a practical, user-friendly, accessible guide that brings together tools to help people manage change.
(5) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."
Slave
Definition:
(n.) See Slav.
(n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
(n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
(n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
(n.) An abject person; a wretch.
(v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
(v. t.) To enslave.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(2) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(3) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(4) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(5) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(6) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(7) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(8) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
(9) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
(10) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(11) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(12) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(13) From the steel mines where child slaves gather surgical steel, all the way up to senior doctors working 36 hours on no sleep, the most healthy people in the NHS are actually the patients.
(14) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(15) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(16) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
(17) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(18) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(19) "She said she is going to be sold as a slave this afternoon, for $10," Kaliph said, his tears dropping into the brown dust.
(20) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.