Sentence examples for appropriated land from inspiring English sources

For years he had organised fellow villagers in protests against the government's failure to compensate them for appropriated land.

Xiao Jincheng, a government researcher in Beijing, says Binhai is considering a different approach from that of Pudong and Shenzhen, where the government simply appropriated land from peasants with little compensation.

The army continues to occupy thousands of homes and administer its own farms, factories and resorts on appropriated land for which the government has paid little or no compensation.

This "divide and rule" policy was developed by the Al Khalifa and its allies after they settled in Bahrain in the 18th century, appropriated land from the indigenous Shia owners and effectively made them into peasants.

They appropriated land, especially after independence and the end of slavery, which would have been common property.

America's Founding Fathers recognized the importance of public education, and appropriated land and money for it as early as the Northwest Ordinance of 1789.

In April 1802 Congress appropriated land-sale funds to finance an overland link between the Atlantic Coast and the new state of Ohio.

Most are accused of falsely appropriating land, misusing funds or illegally selling cattle or timber to enrich themselves at the expense of the communities they were supposed to be protecting.

However, white settlers continued to appropriate land, including tracts in and near the future site of Lock Haven, not covered by the treaty.

Indeed, only a few huts, villas and hotels mar the innermost landscape of the valley, built before the regional government appropriated the land as a historic landmark.

The government appropriated the land of the old feudal families, and Mr. Fadhli and his clan escaped to Lebanon and then to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up.