Sentence examples for an empty land from inspiring English sources

(It took 17 more years for the Australian High Court to formally repudiate the concept of "terra nullius," that the Europeans had arrived to colonize an empty land).

It is about finally and truly expunging the stain of terra nullius – the belief that this was an empty land free for the taking.

So if you put poor people in an empty land that's rich, it's inevitable that your institutions — whether they're political institutions or economic institutions or educational institutions or even your religious institutions — will reflect that underlying assumption.

A8 Deadly British Rail Crash Thirteen people were killed and 70 were injured when a high-speed passenger train hit an empty Land Rover stuck across a track in North Yorkshire and then collided with a freight train.

Thirteen people were killed and 70 injured early today when a high-speed passenger train hit an empty Land Rover stuck across the track and then collided with a freight train coming from the opposite direction.

They chose Palestine knowing it was not an empty land but one that had a people, my people, the Palestinians that have paid with their land, lives and rights.

Plague-struck, the 14th-century Britons who had not been annihilated were left in an emptier land, earning higher wages, perhaps better inclined to enjoy themselves.

And he said our problem is: "Wes, we came as a poor people into a seemingly empty land that was rich in resources.

In 1860, Argentina was a fairly empty land.

"The Highlands in particular, with a lot of empty land and a low population density, is a perfect region for tree planting".

On the western edge of Merced County, near the Diablo Range that separates the Central Valley from the Pacific Coast, is a stretch of empty land that a coalition of landowners has wanted to build on for years.