Sentence examples for land poor from inspiring English sources

And like most urban areas, the town is people rich but land poor.

The pontiff also condemned what he described as the unjust distribution of land, poor housing and criminal gangs preying on children.

Though nobody likes extra taxes, new land-value levies could be matched by cuts in other taxes, especially those paid by poor people.Rich people tend to own a lot of land, poor people very little.

One of the heirs to the throne, however, fled south and established the offshoot dynasty now called the Southern Song, which was land poor but rich in creative energy.

At Liangzhuandong new village – which migrants moved into a year ago - a crowd of residents gathered to expressed a long list of grievances, including inadequate compensation, unfulfilled promises of new land, poor water quality and fights with locals.

Edmond's happiness infuriates his dissolute, aristocratic pal Fernand de Mondego (Guy Pearce), who engineers a series of betrayals -- involving the intricate politics of post-Napoleonic France -- that land poor Edmond in a hellish island dungeon, the notorious Château d'If.

It is in cities' criminal courts where bail gets assessed, and assigned, often landing poor, innocent people behind bars sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks, months or even years when they're unable to fork up as little as $20.

In the present study, issues such as decreasing grazing lands, poor economy, competing businesses and the Swedish national predator policy stand out as major threats to the adaptive capacity of reindeer herding.

The main economic activities of the Krobos are farming and bead-making but due to shortage of lands, poor rainfall and subsequently low harvests, most of the people are now unemployed or at best underemployed.

When he died in the house a decade later, he left his family land-poor.

In land-poor Bronxville, building a new garage raises issues that may include zoning variances and neighbors' opposition.