Sentence examples for land condemned from inspiring English sources

"I'm a writer obsessed with remembering,'' he once said, "with remembering the past of America above all, and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness".

The people were seized with an anti-Catholic hysteria; judges and juries across the land condemned the supposed conspirators; numerous innocent individuals were executed.

At President Obama's inauguration he sang the neglected verses of "This Land Is Your Land," condemning private property, with Bruce Springsteen and a large choir.

Hosting the World Cup was intended to show that Brazil – the land long condemned as the "country of the future – and always will be" – had finally arrived.

Thus, even in a situation where the government's obligation to pay compensation is conceded, the person whose land is condemned pays for the privilege of being a citizen of the community in which the land lies.

The reservation land was condemned and sold, and the proceeds were distributed among the former residents.

But should the peasant farmer, desperate for new land, be condemned in the same way?

The deal must be approved by the National Basketball Association, and the $2.5 billion plan itself will require that land be condemned, rail tracks be moved and the financially strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority give up air rights that it could otherwise sell.

Ranchers were simply told to leave and the land was condemned.

This land was condemned and later flooded by the reservoir in 1940.

In Didden v. Village of Port Chester (2006), an unrelated case brought about by the same town's actions, Sotomayor joined a unanimous panel's summary order to uphold a trial court's dismissal – due to a statute of limitations lapse – of a property owner's objection to his land being condemned for a redevelopment project.