Sentence examples for foreign landowners from inspiring English sources

Targeting foreign landowners will send a worrying message to investors at a time when the country can ill afford it.

Mr. Zimmerl said that so called pocket contracts were being exploited for polemical reasons to attack foreign landowners and farmers.

As one of Zimbabwe's biggest foreign landowners, Van Hoogstraten, 57, sought to curry favour with President Robert Mugabe in an attempt to protect his farming and mining interests.

But things have changed, and he has become wary of investing more amid a rising Hungarian debate about the role of foreign farmers and landowners.

"Urban segregation is not a frozen status quo, but rather a ceaseless social war in which the state intervenes regularly in the name of 'progress', 'beautification', and even 'social justice for the poor' to redraw spatial boundaries to the advantage of landowners, foreign investors, elite homeowners, and middle-class commuters".

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These groups accused the landowners of serving foreign interests and being unpatriotic.

For most of the 20th century, SAPT, owned by the Portuguese colonial government and other foreign interests, was among the biggest landowners in what was then called East Timor.

Given the nationalist xenophobia of the landowners and the desire for more foreign investment by the compradors, there was another, deeper, political antagonism.

"This has basically turned into a heavyweight bout between the ordinary citizens of this country and a foreign corporation," said Randy Thompson, a barrel-chested Nebraska landowner, whose cowboy hat and silver hair have made him a familiar face of opposition to the project.

Under him it remained a force of peasants and of numerous foreign recruits obtained often by outright kidnapping, officered by landowners.