Sentence examples for commonly held land from inspiring English sources

The result is that the tribe has amassed $13.5 million in assets and 1,000 acres of commonly held land.

In her survey of the management of so-called commons in small-scale communities where villagers have the right, for example, to graze livestock on commonly held land, Dr. Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University found that all communities have some form of monitoring to gird against cheating or using more than a fair share of the resource.

First, the idea of the public good, in the sense of commonly held land and water on the common range, lost out definitively to the idea of individual claims and rights, and America never became (as perhaps it would never have done in any case) a place remotely sympathetic to common ownership.

Regenbald's brother held land near him in Cirencester.

A fourth son was Turstin, who held land around Wallingford.

It's "the tragedy of the commons" -- the overuse of a commonly held resource -- and it has landed us in our current environmental and energy mess.

He held lands in nine counties, perhaps centred in Berkshire.

Osbert was from East Anglia, where he held lands.

He held lands in Wallingford and Colston Basset.

For one thing, livestock is insurance against impoverishment, since the land on which the animals graze is commonly held, and in bad times they can always be eaten.

Observations are compared with simple prediction methods in order to test commonly held assumptions about the differences between the wind climate over land and sea and also with results from Risø's WAsP model.