Sentence examples for land was given from inspiring English sources

For decades, land was given to soldiers, officers and favored government employees.

Unlike Russia, where land was given to peasant communes, in Lithuania it was granted to individual peasant farmers.

However, land was given to the lords of the court, and new buildings sprang up, chiefly in the north quarter.

"A lot of the reclaimed land was given out to private builders without public auction," Prakash says.

Part of his land was given over in colonial times to the West African Coca Research Institute.

There, he meets Arabs unfazed by the claim that the Holy Land was given to the Jews by God.

The remaining arable land is given over to cash crops, which contribute substantially to agricultural earnings.

More land is given over to grazing animals than for any other single purpose.

About three-fourths of the land is given to permanent cultivation.

But the protests have continued, with Hindu organizations demanding that the land be given to pilgrims.

"Land is given out to a private investor after careful evaluation.