| For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca. |
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| The earth-shattering declaration came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons. |
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| It's too light to be a spoof, too superficial to get to the real meat of why rap culture inspires so many privileged peons. |
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| Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons. |
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| If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons. |
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| Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons. |
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| After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice. |
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| Unfortunately, he didn't say a word about how we peons could implement this idea in our classes, so it seemed a bit unapproachable. |
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| In 1901, the councillors gave up the privilege of having peons who used to accompany them during assessments and inspections. |
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| You do not become a superpower by creating an ever bigger army of underemployed drivers, idle security guards and ragged peons. |
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| Our super-rich can litigate and settle their way out of charges we peons could never escape. |
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| Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop. |
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| He was foolish to think that anything but fear could rule these peons. |
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| The difference is that millions of peons didn't have to go blind or stooped financing Caesars, or the MGM Grand, or Wynn's stately pleasure domes. |
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| In this world, you are unable to control any peasants or peons directly. |
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| After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and three peons, each of which are harvesting lumber for no reason. |
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| The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons. |
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| When catalyzed with money, governmentium becomes administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy, since it has one-half as many peons but twice as many morons. |
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| If you are going to play favorites, don't tell us peons about it. |
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| This political art project was designed to compensate the impoverished peons of Mexico for the failure of the 1910-1919 revolution led by Zapata and Pancho Villa. |
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| They all have their armies of guards, peons, delivery boys, ear-dewaxers and men who sit on stools in lifts pressing the buttons. |
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| The chief executives themselves may, by contrast, envy the anonymity of the lowly peons who avoid the intense scrutiny the top job entails. |
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| And at the lowest level, helpers or attendants functioning as bungalow peons might be eventually absorbed into regular service as khalasis and helpers. |
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| While these peons can be whipped into fighting shape, bolstering diminished ranks or supplementing healthy ones, the citizens of each village slowly repopulate the town. |
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| Resguardos were expropriated and indigenous peoples in many areas of Colombia were reduced to colonizers in remote frontier lands, or peons forced to work on the large farms or haciendas being established at the time. |
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| What a waste of time to see those people who are all paid, and a lot more than you peons, well paid, um, to, um, work in what they call suicide prevention. |
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| The indigenous peoples were made peons on the haciendas, they were yoked to the wagons of civilizations, and they were enslaved in their own land. |
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