For example, in 1992, the Mexican government, arguing that rural smallholders lacked productivity, launched the counter-land reforms that opened the door for seizing 'ejidos' - smallholders' community-owned land, which was about half of the agricultural land until 1991.
Yet supply problems made any further advance impossible, and the Japanese began to fear an Allied counter-landing at Buna.
His ultimate goal is to make the entire city interactive and create an app that's sort of a "geiger counter for land ownership," where you press a button and it "tells you who owns the land you're standing on".
They are trying to counter the land degradation, caused by too many farmers crowded onto too little turf, that has scarred much of Ethiopia's terrain.
We have defined Gray Whales Count as a research and education project, in which observers (Counters) on land monitor the passage of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) migrating northbound through the nearshore of the Santa Barbara Channel, along a corridor extending approximately 3 nautical miles (nm) from shore.
There was then a brief stoppage as Moses received treatment from an awkward fall in the build-up to Arsenal's counter-attack, landing on his wrist.
Credit Suisse countered by landing several senior executives, including its chief executive, Allen Wheat, and its president, Charles Ward, in Los Angeles to help head off an exodus.
The smaller guns would be sufficient to protect against fast-moving enemy vessels, such as torpedo boats, while the larger guns could cover the entire Strait as far as the North African shore and could fire right over the Rock to counter-bombard land-based artillery.
They sound amazing, as if a board game had been constructed in which the squares were "things people like", the counters were Mary, Mel and Sue, and programmes were created according to which counter happened to land where.
