Sentence examples for expanded land from inspiring English sources

The Obama Administration has expanded land and water conservation programs; it has provided generous subsides to alternative energy producers; it has toughened up emissions standards for cars and factories; and it has put the Keystone XL pipeline on hold.

Defenders of the bill say it makes a number of crucial improvements, including a roughly $10 billion increase in food stamps and other nutrition programs, as well as expanded land conservation and rural development programs and new aid for growers of fruits and vegetables, who have never gotten assistance from a farm bill.

Augustus brought a far greater portion of the Empire's expanded land base under consistent, direct taxation from Rome, instead of exacting varying, intermittent, and somewhat arbitrary tributes from each local province as Augustus' predecessors had done.

Here, we expanded land plant coverage and identified a new divergent land plant clade clan (supergroup B).

She cited new science and better data on crop yield and productivity, more information on co-products that could be produced from advanced biofuels and expanded land-use data for 160 countries, instead of the 40 considered in the proposed rule.

Mr. Jones and company have given us an African variation on the same theme that triumphantly stakes out its own pioneer territory in the expanding land of musicals.

US officials, however, have been watching the rapidly expanding land reclamation by China, which, according to estimates, totals more than 2,000 acres in the South China Sea.

With some countries scrambling to ensure food security, including China, Brazil stands as the nation with the greatest potential in the world to expand land for cultivation and cattle grazing, agricultural experts say.

Agus Purnomo, the head of Indonesia's National Climate Change Council, said the group's accusation that the government is planning to expand land clearing is merely "attention grabbing" based on fudged numbers.

In meetings last week, Arab envoys from the gulf agreed to study proposals to pool their military forces into a regional command, in an apparent reply to Iran's expanding land and sea powers.

As urban populations consume higher-protein food, the demand for meat and processed food is rising, which is expanding land use for livestock production, further accelerating deforestation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture.