Sentence examples for forfeit the land from inspiring English sources

Ms. Pojaman was acquitted of all charges and the judges did not order the couple to forfeit the land, as prosecutors had requested.

Passage of the Singur land law, which required Tata Motors to forfeit the land to the farmers who had been forced to sell, was among Ms. Banerjee's signature triumphs after coming to power in May 2011, when she defeated a communist government that had ruled for 34 years in West Bengal, one of the least industrialized states in India.

Keokuk stipulated that Antoine build their home on the exact spot where the treaty was signed or forfeit the land.

In 1651, the colony passed its prohibition on private purchases of Indian lands: [N]o purchase shall be made of any Land of the natives for a plantation without the consent of this State, except it bee for the clearinge of the Indians from some particular planatations already sett down upon; and if any shall so purchase, they shall forfeit the Land so purchased to the Collonie..

A further rebellion by his nephew, Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the lands for the last time in 1493.

Antoine built their home on the exact spot where the agreement was signed, as stipulated by Keokuk or he would have forfeited the land.

A rebellion by his nephew, Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the family's lands in 1493.

In return, the Nuu-chah-nulth must give up their exemption from paying Canadian taxes and forfeit the right to future land claims.

If that were the case, the minister suggested, he would be guilty of polygamy, illegal since 1993 under the laws of this determinedly secular land, and should forfeit the French citizenship he acquired by marriage in 1999.

Others forfeit the royal treatment.

They may eventually forfeit the wriggle room.