Sentence examples for land reducing from inspiring English sources

These falsely colourised pictures are a land reducing its own history to a hollow patriotic fiction.

Their main effect will be to force small corn-and-bean farmers off the land, reducing food security and increasing economic migration-both to the urban slums and to the United States.

"What we're finding, is with population growth, with productivity of land reducing, with floods, people are encroaching on forest land more and more… The biggest cause of destruction of natural habitats is loss of productivity and damage to existing soil – that's very much climate related," he said.

Sorties by IS sometimes penetrate the line there was a ferocious attack on Kirkuk in January but they rarely get more than five kilometres into Kurdish territory.All told, IS has been stripped of some 13,000 square kilometres of land, reducing by a quarter what it held at its peak.

Docking in Whittier, instead of the more established Seward (pop.:4,000), shaves 115 nautical miles off the cruise and 75 miles on land, reducing fuel costs and wear and tear on motor coaches, as well as on passengers.

Particularly, as the intensity of the soil degradation was severe under the cultivated land, reducing the intensity of cultivation, and adopting integrated soil fertility management could rehabilitate the existing soil conditions.

All that is left is a huge swath of flat land, reduced to rubble by the tsunami that struck on the afternoon of 11 March.

This so-called "in-fill" development is central to the smart growth philosophy, a sort of back-to-the-future approach that aims to conserve land, reduce reliance on automobiles, create affordable housing and stimulate job growth.

The Spano campaign wants voters to know that during his tenure Mr. Spano acquired 2,500 acres of park land, reduced county taxes and tried to combat the "digital divide" by providing computers to needy students and the Westchester Library System.

Every increase in the property tax rates on structures (not land) reduces the desirability of putting capital funds into new buildings, creates an incentive against upgrading quality by new construction, and discourages maintenance.

Increased productivity of cultivated land, reduced costs of production and higher input use efficiency with no harm to the soil, ground water, environment and product quality are the current development strategies of vegetable production (Singh et al. 2010).