Sentence examples for fixed land from inspiring English sources
They envisioned Lower Manhattan and the Upper Bay as having not fixed land and water boundaries, but a "soft infrastructure" of natural systems.
Because the supply of land is essentially fixed, land rents depend on what tenants are prepared to pay, rather than on landlord expenses, preventing landlords from passing LVT to tenants.
Because aircraft could not operate without fixed land references (particularly on long-distance trips), it became necessary to develop an elaborate system of navigation aids (first visual, using beacons, now electronic, using radar) to help indicate the current aircraft position.
The document shows the council will receive three fixed land payments for phase one, totalling £16.3m.
The cost figure is a combination of establishment costs, loss of yield and fixed land costs.
Accurate missiles can destroy missiles in fixed land sites; were all strategic missiles so based, the side firing first could hope to disarm its enemy.
It does allow fixed, land-based antimissile systems, provided they are constructed in specific places.
The traditional interpretation allows the testing and development of fixed land-based ABM systems, such as interceptor missiles or ground-based lasers.
The Soviet proposal to confine "Star Wars" research to the laboratory would prohibit the development of testing of fixed land-based sytems, which is clearly allowed by the treaty, according to the American negotiators of the treaty.
As for the sea-based or air-based defences that Mr Rumsfeld also wants to develop, they would violate the treaty (which permits only a limited number of fixed, land-based interceptors) once they were deployed.
Among the striking Global Zero proposals is one to eliminate outright the fixed, land-based intercontinental nuclear missiles that form one leg of the three-part nuclear arsenal, and instead rely solely on submarines, which are nearly impossible to detect, and long-range bombers, which can be summoned back from an attack should a crisis ease.
