Sentence examples for enclosing land from inspiring English sources

Zhang Xiaoqiang of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's planning agency, also said that urbanisation "does not mean simply building things or enclosing land".The demolition dust needs to settle.

Herewith a paragraph: "The witches are too jolly for some tastes, as in their giddily swirling dance just before Macbeth first enters, 'Le Sorelle Vagabonde': 'The roaming sisters flit across the waves, skilled to weave a circle enclosing land and sea.' They seem to be having too much fun.

The results presented above indicates that the increasingly common practice of enclosing land has taken place in parallel with a general increase in vegetation as well (as indicated by NDVI) from 2001 to 2014 in the two divisions included in the analysis.

Renaming the estate Blair Adam, he set about expanding and improving it, planting trees, enclosing land, and setting up coal mines.

There would be no forced evictions, no clearances – the right of kings to enclose land has passed.

Pocock was initially charged with three offences, including entering enclosed land without lawful excuse and hindering the working of mining equipment.

To enclose land was to put a hedge or fence around a portion of this open land and thus prevent the exercise of common grazing and other rights over it.

Scholars have traditionally made an initial contrast between areas of enclosed land (bocage), usually associated with zones of high rainfall and heavy soils, and areas of open-field land (campagne), generally associated with level and well-drained plains and plateaus.

In England, commons are often associated with rural agrarian land, mentally welded to the 18th- and 19th-century "enclosure of the commons", when, as Simon Fairlie writes, "between 1760 and 1870, about 7 million acres (about one sixth the area of England) were changed, by some 4,000 acts of parliament, from common land to enclosed land".

Similarly enclosed land is found elsewhere, however, notably on the northern, western, and southern fringes of the Paris Basin, such as in Normandy, as well as in the western and northern parts of the Massif Central, parts of Aquitaine, and the Pyrenean region.

Consequently, as more individuals enclosed land, there was reduced pastoral migration (Makokha et al. 1999).