Sentence examples for developers and farmers from inspiring English sources

As Florida's population expanded, however, developers and farmers saw little profit in swamps.

He was said to have annoyed Florida's developers and farmers and their many friends in the Florida State Legislature by pushing for detailed and meaningful programmatic regulations.

It betrays the premise of the project, which is that nature has as much right to clean water as the developers and farmers.

Beneficiaries — including banks, private equity investors, electric utilities, real estate developers and farmers — say the break, worth about $1.5 trillion, simply offers a deduction for a standard business expense.

For Murcia, the arrival of the water crisis has been accelerated by developers and farmers who have hewed to water-hungry ventures highly unsuited to a drier, warmer climate: crops like lettuce that need ample irrigation, resorts that promise a swimming pool in the yard, acres of freshly sodded golf courses that sop up millions of gallons a day.

But as the River of Grass has shrunk under the steady march of developers and farmers, the Miccosukee tribe's culture, if not its very existence, is threatened.

Underlying economic behavior of consumer utility maximization and developer and farmer profit maximization is assumed.

To Bob Nunn, California oilman, developer and farmer, his plan is safe, smart and profitable.

We hosted events for developers and growers — farmers in the area grow lentils and potatoes and durum wheat — but we couldn't get beyond 12,500.

The future of the Everglades, for example, depends on whether the administration is willing to honor the wishes of Congress as expressed in the Everglades restoration plan and give the natural system its fair share of South Florida's copious rainfall, instead of allowing the developers and big farmers to grab it all.

They sought information from other community groups to enable better outcomes in negotiating with Council, state governments, private developers and local farmers whose activities threatened their forest and community based interests.