Sentence examples for former land from inspiring English sources

Geologic evidence suggests that Adam's Bridge represents a former land connection between India and Sri Lanka.

Much of that former land area is now submerged beneath the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi seas.

Now many Kurds are returning to their former land, ejecting Arabs who have been planting crops.

If you are foraging in an urban area, it is important to know the former land use, as industrial contamination can make it unsafe.

Before the unification of East and West Germany in 1990, the former Land was reconstituted from these districts as Mecklenburg West Pomerania.

But the ostriches and rheas could be descended from a common flightless ancestor because of the known former land connections from Asia to North and South America.

Garry Mauro, a former state land commissioner and longtime friend of President Clinton, will lead the vice president's Texas campaign.

"I think it's fair to say that some of his buildings have rubbed people the wrong way," said Ward Dennis, a historic preservation consultant and the former land-use chair of Community Board 1 in Brooklyn, which covers Williamsburg.

"We have our own version of what I call the Tea Party left," Michael Yarne, a former land-use lawyer and a principal at the development firm Build Inc., complained to me late one afternoon.

"We're a land of small things: small firms, small lots, small jurisdictions, small neighbourhoods," says Ethan Seltzer, professor at Portland State University's Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, and a former land-use supervisor at the Metro Regional Government.

Lippe and Waldeck remained under sovereign princes; Hanover and Oldenburg were awarded their former lands.