The idea, de Boer went on, would be not only to gain land and protect the coast, but also to showcase Dutch engineering skills.
It feels more like efforts to gain land, or force the closure of rival shops, say; a chance to revenge personal grievance or ensure personal gain under the banner of religious belief.
Human activities have modified their geometry through engineering measures to gain land for agricultural purposes and settlements, as well as through active mining to exploit gravel resources.
The Iberian Peninsula kingdoms continued to gain land from the Muslim kingdoms of the peninsula; Portugal concentrated on expanding overseas during the 15th century, while the other kingdoms were riven by difficulties over the royal succession and other concerns.
Millions of blacks who were robbed of ownership or tenancy rights after 1913 could file claims for compensation; those who never owned land could gain land through the redistribution program; and through tenure upgrading, blacks who were allowed to be tenants only under white rule became owners.
He played an instrumental role in popularizing the New York Marathon, rallying corporate executives and labor leaders to help the city during its darkest moments, moving the United States Open to Flushing, Queens, and gaining landing rights in New York for the Concorde jet.
"In some cases - annexations, for example - cities have gained land through legal action.
It's the same story in Denmark and Holland — we've been gaining land as the sea rises".
This is not to say that these areas have really lost or gained land, but our digital representation has changed, therefore the numbers have changed".
And, economists and sociologists say, the gains landed disproportionately in the laps of a small fraction of Americans already exceptionally well off.
This piece-by-piece process of gaining land moved forward two weeks ago with the purchase of 291-acre and 63-acre sites.
