Sentence examples for land contains from inspiring English sources

Although 8% has already been cleared, the indigenous land contains about half of the Amazon forest left in Maranhão state.

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But according to a 1919 city survey, the land contains the remains of 77 members of the Brinckerhoff family, with the earliest burials in 1730.

The Shinnecock tribe, which says the land contains a burial ground, once controlled all the land on the East End of Long Island, but it has seen its realm dwindle in 300 years to an 800-acre reservation on prime waterfront property in Southampton.

Out of nowhere, federal bureaucrats showed up and declared that their piece of land contains federally protected wetlands.

Ben van Gelderen's notes from later that night were: In my desire for the seasonal structure to incorporate as much of the traditional knowledge as possible, I have overlooked how each parcel of land contains the 'truth' necessary for the education of Yolŋu.

Con Edison owns the land containing this portion of the trail and granted an easement to the state, which leases it to the county.

She noted that a June 2003 report conducted by Eugene Boesch, an archaeologist hired by the Pisciotta family, said the land contained concentrations of pottery and fire-cracked rock.

Before the June 1967 war, the land contained a series of family-owned farms where Lebanese peasants grew wheat and grazed their livestock.

The State Supreme Court ruled that the state can force an Indian tribe to sell land containing burial grounds to build a dam on the Maple River.

Today, a mere eighth-of-a-mile slip of land containing four estates and the summer headquarters of the New York Athletic Club remains along the Long Island Sound in Pelham.