Sentence examples for land concessions from inspiring English sources

In May the government suspended the allocation of all new land concessions.

Many of the land concessions of those companies are in the precious peatland area.

Over the last 15 years, Israel has made several land concessions, including evacuating from Gaza.

The European Parliament is calling for an end to the land concessions and a release of political prisoners.

A moratorium on land concessions has been in force since May, as a land-titling exercise is undertaken.

But the argument against enormous land concessions needn't be based solely on appeals to human rights, environmental warnings or romanticism.

The map of government land concessions is a patchwork of geometric boxes overlaying southern Ecuador's mountains and rivers.

Economic land concessions cover an estimated 2m hectares (4.9m acres), or about 10% of Cambodia's land mass.

His government, like its similarly-minded predecessor, has granted land concessions for oil and gas exploration, mining, biofuel crops and logging.

Land concessions continue to be issued by the Forestry Ministry, rated the most corrupt among 20 government institutions by Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission in 2012.

The system of commercial land concessions, decried by activists as corrupt, has become a volatile issue nationwide and prompted an inquiry by the United Nations.