Sentence examples for given land for from inspiring English sources

Officials above the fifth grade were given land for permanent possession.

The "prolonged struggle" that Wilby refers to was a brief squabble about parity, which ended in 1884 with the Parsee, Hindu and Muslim communities each being given land for their own gymkhanas.

These refugees were given land for cultivation and, by all accounts, were largely self-sufficient (Thomson 2009).

Many areas of Port-au-Prince were settled either by tonton makout – Duvalier's death squads – given land for their service or by squatters.

The Mayor's eldest son, Charles Edward Flower gave land for the site of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and most of the money to build & equip it.

When Pratt refused to give land for a North Carolina Railroad station, Bartlett Durham donated a plot about 2 miles (3 km) to the west.

In some cases, the family simply gave land for schools, a hospital and low-income housing.

Nuffield College was founded in 1937 after a donation to the University by the car manufacturer Lord Nuffield; he gave land for the college, as well as £900,000 (approximately £246 million in present day terms) to build and endow it.

Froggatt's descendants owned Damhouse until 1800 when it was leased to tenants, one of whom was George Ormerod, owner of the Banks Estate in Tyldesley who gave land for its churchyard and church school.

However, while he was a generous donor to monasteries, he did not give land for new ones or attempt to revive the ones in the north and east destroyed by Viking attacks.

Households were given land title for a period of 30 years, with the possibility of extending the lease on expiry.