The peasants themselves were, at times, reluctant to trust government officials and resisted interference from the state.

It had to be abolished, for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable.

The peasants resisted and crop production diminished even more than during Lenin's reign.

The peasants resisted the armed forces which led to the killing of five peasants in the firing.

As a result, these rumors worked in rallying the peasants to resist the government and collectivization because they gave the peasants a "language of protest".

It is also the region where, in the 1860s, coffee production boomed as the migrating peasants could resist the hegemony of the large land holders.

For peasants must never resist orders, but only obey them, as is their divinely appointed role.

The peasants resisted leaving their lands.

In the summer of 1894, armed Armenian peasants resisted an attack by the Kurds.

When the tax collections began in May 1841, the peasants of the Lanchkhuti community resisted and took to arms on May 22, 1841.