Sentence examples for grab lands from inspiring English sources

Mr. Erdogan's repeated statements on his flaming desire to grab lands from his neighbors, are reminiscent of Hitler's doctrine that the German people had "the right to a greater living space than other peoples... Germany's future was therefore wholly conditional upon the solving of the need for space".

"If you want to capture a big open market, you want to bring in money to grab land," he said.

Once installed, he laments, officials can grab land, charge fines, and demand bribes under threat of closing down a business.

"The rights of farming and indigenous communities are increasingly ignored in the race to grab land and water.

It is unusual for even the most extreme settlers to grab land so close to an established community.

The government is currently passing a law that will require it to grab land from the churches.

"Members of the local governments are actually encouraging people to grab land that's under control of central government.

Everyone south and west of those two, generally speaking, is also short of population, so Mr. Fraser and Mr. Duncan need to grab land to the east to make it up.

We promised free housing to slum dwellers and I think that was like an invitation for more people to come in and grab land.

When white farmers threw their weight behind the opposition in the late 1990s, Mr Mugabe encouraged the war veterans to grab land.Disappointment fuelled his paranoia.

A bankrupt and an opportunist, his crusade to create an Eden for his followers concealed, in Cartwright's opinion, a cynical plan to grab land from the Zulus.