In that first parched year, people began selling possessions, mortgaging land, borrowing money.
Instead they are amphibious creatures that flit between sea and land, borrowing money from governments at subsidised rates one moment, plunging into the global market the next.China and Russia are the main exponents.
Concord chose in the 1950s to dump its share only a few hundred yards from the spot where Thoreau lived in a rude cabin on land borrowed from his friend and fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
On this 42nd Earth Day, I challenge all Americans to demonstrate a commitment to protecting the air we all breathe, water we all drink, and the land we borrow to sustain us.
And that shortchanges what is actually an interesting conceit: Aquaman is the ideal ruler because he belongs to the ocean and the land — to borrow another "Harry Potter" reference, he's a Mudblood — and because he (unlike Orm) isn't interested in waging war on a part of the globe he doesn't understand.
"Many of them leave their families, sell their lands or borrow money to finance the cost of migration for work".
This is no surprise, since she said so already in the introduction; what really is surprising (and distressing) is her laborious explanation that even the smallest incidents in "The Land" are borrowed from real life -- Paul- Edward's dramatic struggle to get land, for instance, is similar in many details to her struggle to buy "a flowered meadow nestled in the Rocky Mountains".
Farmers were trapped on the land and borrowed more to cover the costs of farming.
He began farming in 1997 on land leased from his grandmother (he's the sixth generation to farm this land), with borrowed tractors and seven pigs.
Welcomed by the government, they leased tracts of fertile land and borrowed money to buy equipment and seed.
He bought a lot of land by borrowing heavily and built offices and apartments at a very fast pace too fast for the market to absorb.
