Sentence examples for closed land from inspiring English sources

He was also keen to develop TLM's work elsewhere, and took a team into the closed land of Bhutan in response to a request from its government.

However, others argue that the economic effect of a closed land border with Turkey is the only incentive for Armenia to engage in a meaningful dialogue with Azerbaijan on lifting its occupation.

In the closed land system, failure to prepare for this transition will exacerbate competition for arable land, degrade food security, and accelerate deforestation and biodiversity loss.

Turkish Airlines, the last foreign airline still flying to Libya, suspended flights on January 6th; Egypt and Tunisia have closed land borders.

But Bradley M. Campbell, the state environmental commissioner, has refused to honor them, and last week he closed land under his jurisdiction to a hunt.

"They spend more time supporting the land closures than they do keeping the land open and opening up closed lands," he said.

Government officials are considering a variety of steps that would please the European Union, from abolishing the death penalty to reopening the long-closed land border with Armenia.

Herders reported that the decline of some shrub species in the lowlands is due to an increased density of landless herders in fewer grazing areas following their eviction from closed afforested land.

For him, our collective fascination with North Korea as this strange, closed-off land manifests itself because we're all trying to judge the country based on Western standards of democracy.

We achieve this, for instance, by providing closed-budget land accounts (full accounts that address 100% of the land surface) and consistent biomass flow accounts that integrate ecological (e.g. NPP) and socioeconomic (e.g. agricultural yields) flows in a manner that is consistent with the widely accepted Material Flow Accounting framework (MFA; Weisz et al., 2007).

The next month, Fossett made a third flight around the world in order to break the absolute record for "Distance over a closed circuit without landing" (with takeoff and landing at the same airport).