Sentence examples for appropriation of land from inspiring English sources

This meant the appropriation of land and reconstruction.

This is a clear window on to the hallmark of Mubarak's reign – a colossal appropriation of land and capital by the political and business elite.

In return the church hierarchy turns a blind eye to their activities, which include the violent appropriation of land occupied by poor rural farmers.

The flood of overseas capital, and the (perfectly legal) appropriation of land by foreign investors has blocked the possibility of such organic development in poor countries.

Mr Abu Mariya organises protests in Beit Omar, a town on the West Bank, against Israel's appropriation of land for settlements and security walls that can cut through Palestinian farms and hurt the villagers' livelihood.

John Kerry has called the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, amid a US effort to persuade Israel to reverse the go-ahead for the largest appropriation of land on the occupied West Bank since the 1980s.

The kidnap and murder of the three teenagers, blamed by the Israeli government on Hamas, has now been used to justify mass arrests on the West Bank, as a contributory cause to the recent 50-day war in Gaza, and now one of the largest appropriations of land for settlement building in recent memory.

In the Declaration of Independence, we find a specific complaint that King George III is putting too many limits on immigration: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands".

Stricter controls have been imposed on the appropriation of arable land for urban development.

Corruption: The appropriation of villagers' land by corrupt officials, in collusion with property developers, is a source of growing unrest.

"The appropriation...of the spiritual essence of the Palestinians is...no different than the appropriation of the land," observes Mr Pappé.