What's the difference between handless and landless?
Handless
Definition:
(a.) Without a hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report on 4 new patients with acheiropodia ("the handless and footless families of Brazil").
(2) A genetic analysis is presented of data from 22 Brazilian sibships with cases of acheiropodia (the handless and footless families of Brazil).
(3) - The authors' own experience and observations made by other authors appear to suggest the method to be recommended for handless patients and for those with one upper arm amputation.
Landless
Definition:
(a.) Having no property in land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(2) As secretary general of La Via Campesina , the transnational peasant movement, he is the public voice of nearly 200 million small-scale producers, landless people, and farm and food workers in more than 180 organisations across nearly 90 countries.
(3) In 2000, Mugabe began a land reform programme , billed as an attempt to correct the colonialist legacy by giving white-owned farms to landless black people.
(4) Almost 80% of blind children from landless households, and even a very small garden reduced considerably the chances of a household having a xerophthalmic child.
(5) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
(6) More than 500,000 Indians demonstrated against the WTO's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the agenda of powerful groups such as the Movimento Sem Terra (the Landless) in Brazil and the Zapatistas in Mexico are beginning to forge a new global ideology of resistance to corporate expansion.
(7) Many of these children are destitute without families or from very poor landless families in rural areas.
(8) He favoured ambitious, but often unsound, development projects, and schemes to relocate millions of landless peasants and open up virgin forests paved the way for the country's current environmental crisis.
(9) Landlessness, an uneven distribution of wealth, overemphasis on cash-crop production, neglect of peasant agriculture in favour of unnecessary expenditure on military hardware and other misguided projects, and crop specialisation are some of the factors responsible for food shortage and undernutrition.
(10) Instead, they employ landless day labourers for a pittance.
(11) "The presence of palm oil plantations has spawned a new poverty and is triggering a crisis of landlessness and hunger.
(12) The situation looked very different a decade ago, when former environment minister Marina Silva introduced a series of measures that slowed deforestation and promised more territory for indigenous groups and landless peasants.
(13) Suddenly the same country that was capable of silently coping with a routine of impunity in notorious cases of state violence, such as the mass murder of street children or landless workers, became fixated on the legality of administrative budgeting orders.
(14) Only people on the lowest rung of the economic ladder, such as landless rural labourers, were hungry, and the memory stayed with Sen, prompting him several decades later to do his study of that famine and several others in the Sahel, Ethiopia and China.
(15) Stand with us for justice and peace.” Roman Catholic priest the Rev Ben Alforque said poor Filipinos include landless peasants, underpaid workers, homeless children, indigenous tribes and political prisoners.
(16) The social context of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Zimbabwe features a migrant labor system, rapid urbanization, constant war with high level of military mobilization, landlessness, poverty, and the subordination of women.
(17) In addition, government attempts to move landless people from densely populated areas to less populous areas with "transmigration" policies have caused major conflicts with indigenous groups in provinces like Papua and Sulawesi.
(18) About 67.0% of the landless families suffered from malnutrition, in contrast to 25% of the landowners who had 50 or more than 50 hectares of land (p less than 0.01).
(19) 75% of the population of Indian still lives in villages and 70% of farmers are landless.
(20) This include environmentalists, indigenous groups and landless peasants, all of whom she alleged – without evidence – were working for foreign interests.