Sentence examples for exploiting the area from inspiring English sources

Lebanon has long accused Israel of exploiting the area it occupies.

BP has been exploiting the area off Shetland since the 1970s but stepped up production in the mid-1990s as other reserves in more accesible areas ran dry.

Exploiting the area was a key goal of the George W Bush administration, and huge battles over it were fought in the House and Senate during the Bush years.

Exploiting the area would also be an "irresponsible business decision", the group argues, as global action on climate change will reduce oil demand and mean such projects have a high risk of losing money.

The Cistercian abbeys of Furness and Byland, exploiting the area for wool production, continued the process of deforestation, which was accelerated by iron ore smelting and later by the extraction of lead and copper.

Its vast territory allowed it to do something no other terrorist group had done: By taxing the millions under the group's rule and exploiting the area's natural resources, the Islamic State raked in billions of dollars, becoming the world's richest terrorist organization.

The site was first settled in 1838 by lumbermen who sought to exploit the area's cedar forests.

Various mining concerns exploited the area throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it wasn't until 1916 that copper was seriously mined, under the direction of Capt.

That great American type, the indefatigable entrepreneur, exploited the area's lumber, fish and brownstone until the resources were exhausted and panic ensued.

Set in the Canadian High Arctic, this début novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the area's natural resources.

Millions came to Siberia and the north because the Soviet Government paid them -- handsomely, for the times -- to exploit the area's fabulous stores of gold, diamonds, tin, platinum and oil.