Sentence examples for forfeit water from inspiring English sources
Farmers had been accused of using water inefficiently, and the board feared being forced to forfeit water.
House rules – the usual, no alcohol, no talking after 9pm, lights off at 10pm or you forfeit the deposit, hot water's on for an hour from 3am, additional times by arrangement, breakfast between 6.45 and 7am, the tray will be on the stairs – you're welcome to go into the kitchen, but it's very much Caesar's space.
Because their husbanded cash and gold had been forfeited to the marauding water, families were reckoning with instant poverty; many people were literally left with nothing -- not even coins in their pockets or clothes on their backs.
By virtue of signing the Joint Venture agreement the farmers were also forfeiting their land and water rights to be used for crop production.
Farms risk forfeiting part of their water allotments if they use less than allotted.
The energy firm was essentially asking Canadians to forfeit their clean air and water for their own profits.
Article 11 of the Water Control Law provided that, if any agricultural land or part thereof is used for non-agricultural purposes, this particular land forfeits its right to use the water allocated for it and will receive material compensation in return[15].
We trainees had to perform humiliating forfeits, bathe in three weeks' worth of left-over food then be blasted with a high-pressure sea water hose.
If the land is not cultivated, its water allotment will be held in trust by the government until it is cultivated, but buildings on land will forfeit its share of water [28].
Others forfeit the royal treatment.
