Sentence examples for claimed land from inspiring English sources

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

Soon she is shipped off to Max, who has claimed land in the Dakota Territory to escape religious persecution himself.

Sand from deposits in the New York harbor and landfill material from the excavations for the first World Trade Center had already been poured into the Hudson, and the new claimed land was just waiting to be filled.

Ali al-Jabouri, dean of archaeology at Mosul University, said some of the squatters claimed land rights stretching back to the Ottoman Empire, whose dissolution after World War I led to the creation of modern Iraq.

The mass conversions, which have coincided with the violent expulsion of large numbers of peasants from claimed land, worry the Catholic clergy, who welcomed Pope Benedict XVI last month in Guanajuato state.

"As a consequence of the development of palm by secretive business practices and the use of threats, people have been displaced and [the businesses] have claimed land for themselves," he said.

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

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

Residents intentionally sank their ships into the ground to claim land in San Francisco.

The act ended an earlier homesteading law that also had allowed Native peoples to claim land.

Ownership was almost never recorded, so investors could face potential lawsuits from people claiming land as theirs.