Sentence examples for Take up land from inspiring English sources

What I do — remodeling — doesn't take up land".

Alcohol made from sugar cane has long helped power Brazil's cars, but such fuel crops reduce the land available for growing food, so hopes are resting on biofuels produced from algae, yeast or bacteria that do not take up land.

He assumed that Spaniards had the right to take up land in California and that the church had the duty to reorganize Indians into Christian settlements, by force if necessary.

1938 Italian Colonists Go to Ethiopia ROME — The first practical steps toward the colonization of the new Italian conquest were taken today when 150 men, all heads of families, left Brindisi to take up land in Ethiopia.

However, the methods mentioned above not only take up land, but also cause great resource waste.

One informant summarised the livestock production and rainfall performance during those days as follows: "We were encouraged by colonial government to take up land and start farming, but we did not have any interest then because we had adequate number of animals which were producing enough milk.

Some appear to have been reluctant to take up lands in a kingdom that did not always appear pacified.

Hired labourers, being fewer, asked for higher wages and better food, and peasant tenants, also fewer, asked for better conditions of tenure when they took up land.

Few dispute that in the very short term it is a better source of fuel than petroleum, but sugar production takes up land and potentially raises the cost of food, and its production is far from carbon-neutral.

In the context of the Walk for Reconciliation, I suddenly realised that Wiseman hadn't "taken up" land; he'd simply "taken" it from the Aboriginal people - perhaps by force.

Standing there, I remembered how my mother's stories had always finished: "He was freed and took up land on the Hawkesbury river - he did well for himself and died a rich man".