Sentence examples for land grants from inspiring English sources

Prince Abdullah also interfered with land grants.

In 1803 settlement was renewed with land grants.

With vast land grants, Keith then entered the banana business.

It will require transfers of wealth to households through land grants, privatisation and freedom of movement.

He was rewarded for his services with public offices and extensive land grants on the island.

In February 1963 Tijerina established La Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants).

Meanwhile, however, free settlers kept arriving, lured by land grants and forced free labor.

Many large landholdings have derived from federal land grants to railroads.

Suppose Congress hadn't made the massive land grants that subsidized rapid railroad expansion.

Like a war, the project needed government financing, in huge federal loans and land grants.

Consequently, most land grants are tiny, usually about a half-acre.