Sentence examples for awarded land from inspiring English sources

The first Spanish settlers were awarded land grants by Spain and Mexico, and they resided in the central valley of the Rio Grande and its tributaries.

As it is written now, the law would also reduce lump-sum payments to those who were severely wounded and rescind a provision from a previous law that awarded land to victims — even though many have not received any property.

And in the United States, a quarter of adults today can trace their family legacy of asset ownership to the Homestead Act that, beginning under Abraham Lincoln, awarded land in the American West to those pioneers with the courage to settle it.

Some who lost homes or property were awarded land in the Western Reserve.

Some of the latter feared that the railroad, which had been awarded land for development by the US Government in rights-of-way, would evict them from their squatter homes.

In or around 841, Ragnar had been awarded land in Turholt, Frisia by Charles the Bald, but he eventually lost the land as well as the favour of the king.

Awarding land grants to soldiers dates back to the aftermath of the 1857 mutiny against British colonial rule.

It awarded new land created by lava flows to the state, instead of adjacent property owners.

His grandfather migrated from east Bengal in 1911, and so pleased a local zamindar, or feudal landlord, that he was eventually awarded the land he tilled, which now amounts to 11 acres divided between eight brothers.

The court awarded the land to Cameroon in 2002, but the transfer was delayed by arguments within Nigeria's government and by several violent clashes led by militant groups claiming that the land belonged to Nigeria.

Or you can view it below from the time it turned violent: The roots of the dispute reach back to 2007 when the government awarded the land to the Shukaku company, owned by Lao Meng Khin, a senator of the ruling Cambodian People's Party.