Instead, Senator Lugar said, these crop subsidies are a direct transfer of taxpayers' money to rural landowners.

This precluded the development of local business interests, whether rural landowners or a wealthy merchant strata.

These groups often extorted protection money from rural landowners or enforced higher wage rates.

The phrase therefore was seen to apply across classes to rural landowners as well as city merchants.

Reforested land can also contribute to the local economy as rural landowners also distribute hunting leases during the years between harvests.

Pending legislation would require local officials to meet performance standards and to eliminate property tax exemptions for wealthy country clubs and rural landowners.

This program has been widely used by rural landowners, including farmers.

Alves de Lima's initial goal, when he took over the newspapers in 1931, was defending the "agricultural interests", meaning rural landowners.

After independence, conservative rural landowners, known as caudillos, filled the power vacuum left by the departed colonial regime.

Other states are even using tax incentives to encourage wealthy rural landowners to donate land to conservationist organizations or to the state in which it's located.