Sentence examples for common lands from inspiring English sources

So the Party decided that women would sow seeds on common lands, which belongs to the Jantana Sarkar.

Most henequen was produced on large plantations and, to a lesser extent from the 1930s, on cooperative ejidos (common lands).

By the end of the 19th century the process of the enclosure of common lands in England was virtually complete.

He saw at first hand the transforming process of enclosure, in which common lands were taken over by rich landowners, and was appalled by its "lawless law".

This unprecedented corporate privatisation and enclosure of the world's common lands – its pastures, fields and forests – is being done in the name of development.

Some were social reformers, such as Gerrard Winstanley, whose followers, agrarian communists known as Diggers, believed that the common lands should be returned to the common people.

An Enclosure Act is a parliamentary authority to fence-off common land, thus making that land private property, while awarding commoners land in compensation.

This was common land".

But much common land was also preserved during that process.

Appropriation by foliage is a common land-grab technique.

We travelled around, parking on council land, gravel pits and common land.