Sentence examples for awarding of land from inspiring English sources

Further applications were made to the state's General Assembly in 1787, which resulted in the awarding of land in the Ohio Country that now includes Sandusky, Ohio.

Government services did not follow the award of land, but alcohol, unemployment and social breakdown did.

The accounts date from the 1880's, when the government tried to break up the tribal land ownership system and awarded allotments of land to individual Indians.

The numerous charges included the awarding of plots of land in prime Istanbul locations to construction firms close to Erdoğan; the smuggling of gold to Iran; and bribes totaling millions of dollars.

For his services, he was awarded a plot of land in an upscale Kandahar housing development.

They were eventually awarded 2,800 acres of land when Congress enacted the Mashantucket Pequot Land Claims and Settlement Act.

Each company was granted financial support from government bonds and awarded sizable parcels of land along the entire length of their route as an added incentive.

Awarded a patch of land on a former racecourse in the center of town, Mr. Ma was told he would have to come up with the construction financing himself.

Proprietary colony, in British American colonial history, a type of settlement dominating the period 1660 90, in which favourites of the British crown were awarded huge tracts of land in the New World to supervise and develop.

They were also awarded 85 hectares of land to produce Irish potatoes.

Clark was awarded large tracts of land in southern Indiana for his service in the war and modern Clark County is named in his honor.