Sentence examples for destroying land from inspiring English sources

The proposed activity on Pågan is about destroying culture, destroying land, and creating a 9,000-plus 9,000-pluse military training ground.

After several suicides in January 2011 in Madhya Pradesh, the state's agriculture minister downplayed the distress as being a consequence of the farmers' past shortcomings of destroying land fertility via excessive chemical application (Vasavi, 2012).

A small number of buildings in Bangaeira were not damaged by the lava flows but were isolated between flow channels, making access difficult and destroying land associated with the property.

By the 1900s, feral horse populations were in decline due to competition with livestock, and there was concern that the horses were destroying land and resources wanted by ranching and hunting interests.

Like Populous, Godus is a "god game" – the player controlling an in-game society on a grand scale, building and destroying land and influencing proceedings as if a heavens-residing onlooker.

The Home Office was repeatedly warned by lawyers that some people were being wrongly threatened with deportation and that destroying landing cards would impede someone's ability to prove how long they had been here.

Keep in mind that land reform neither creates nor destroys land.

The first is that transgenic maize will contaminate and destroy land races, thus destroying biodiversity and its associated cultural traditions.

Another area is mitigation banking, where, for example, a state's department of transportation could buy acres to be preserved forever to compensate for having destroyed land elsewhere.

In the 1960s, saltwater flooding resulting from Tenneco's failure to properly plug abandoned wells contaminated Sac and Fox drinking water and destroyed land and pecan groves.

In the new film, Sen – an Australian film-maker of dual heritage – pits Jay against a corrupt mining company attempting a land grab that will destroy land considered sacred.