Sentence examples for competed for land from inspiring English sources
The Arabs are nomads who have long competed for land with black African farmers, also Muslim.
At the same time, tribes have competed for land, privileges and status, leaving them open to manipulation.
Religions have therefore competed for land, for money, for sacred sites, for political power, and for the loyalty of their communities.
In central and northwestern South Africa and southern Namibia these heterogenous groups of people, known variously as Basters, Griqua, Korana, Bergenaars, and Oorlams, competed for land and water with the Tswana and Nama communities and traded for or raided their ivory and cattle in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Boniface clashed with Henry's half-brothers, the Lusignans, who arrived in England in 1247 and competed for lands and promotions with the queens' Savoy relatives.
Growing trees is a form of agriculture that will compete for land with food agriculture.
Senior-housing operators have no easy time competing for land with market-rate housing developers.
Being aquatic photoautotrophs they can be cultivated in non-arable lands and do not compete for land for food production.
Increasingly, investments are being made in fast-growing plantations which compete for land with both natural forests and oil palm.
Bio-energy The report says biofuels compete for land and water with food crops and are inefficient.
