Sentence examples for claim land from inspiring English sources

"People are desperate for land of their own and watching outsiders claim land where you were born.

But its residents do not fit the headline-grabbing stereotypes of fanatical settlers, motivated by a national-religious drive to claim land.

This stems less from a lack of money or materials than the vastness of the disaster and the Haitian government's continued failure to move swiftly and decisively to identify and claim land for resettlement.

In 1584 the Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh received a grant from Queen Elizabeth I to claim land in North America, and he sent out an exploratory expedition that returned with a report optimistic for potential settlement.

But as a rare attempt by Palestinians to claim land by settling it — the way some Israelis have long been doing — the Bab al-Shams operation was a breakthrough.

In this context Dr Wallace's mapping efforts are also helping the locals to claim land titles, which bring the legal right to exclude outside hunters.In the case of Peru, the rule of law is better established.

An interesting "claim" landed in my in-box this morning.

It was a business venture, plain and simple: He would claim lands for the Spanish Crown andd get 10percentt of the take in return.

Gunfights erupted recently between peasants claiming land and police trying to evict them.

In the early days of the reservation some old-timers claimed land inside the reservation.

From 1594 to 1600 he represented his family in a land dispute, claiming land outside of the town of Huamanga.