Sentence examples for claiming land from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

When Shoprite settled on a plot for its first store in Nigeria, it reportedly had three people claiming land rights.

Late last year groups in different parts of China began simply claiming land as their own individual private plots.China's constitution decrees that rural land is owned by "collectives".

He refuses to pay $1.2m in penalties, claiming land rights because his Mormon ancestors worked in the area before the Bureau of Land Management came to own it.

Indigenous groups claiming lands already occupied could be compensated in other ways instead.

For southern and central California, the mission system was designed as a way of claiming lands in the name of the church.

–The Palestine Liberation Organization reconciled itself to claiming lands occupied in 1967, and in return was nurtured into becoming a proto-state.

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.