Sentence examples for land was returned from inspiring English sources

The land was returned to the park.

The strategy seemed to work: by 2004, all the forest land was returned to farmers.

Although courts have ordered the authorities to demarcate land for the Guarani, little progress has been made since the 1990s when a small tranche of land was returned to them – and the suicide rate temporarily declined.

Land was returned to the Indian people, but, unaware of the worth of their property, they soon lost it to Mexican rancheros and later to the first American settlers.

With the end of Ceausescu's rule, agricultural land was returned to its original owners and a "chaotic patchwork" of housing plots began to sprawl outward from the cities with little regard for planning or environmental protection.

During the Bei Wei a man and wife were entitled to a total of about 140 mou (about 20 acres [8 hectares]), of which a small part was irrevocably held by them; the remaining land was returned to the government upon age 70 or their deaths.

"When the security problem does not exist any more the land is returned to the owner".

Arab world agrees to relations with Israel if land is returned.

The government then ordered that about 30 acres of the confiscated land be returned to the 900 families who had refused to accept the inadequate compensation.

By 1990, however, further agrarian reform had resulted in much of the land being returned to its former owners, and agricultural cooperatives diminished.

When Fidel Castro came to power, in 1959, he stopped cashing the rent checks from the Treasury Department and demanded and kept demanding that the land be returned.