Sentence examples for landholder from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who owns land.
Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.Wallace Stegner called those willing to hold on to a ranch in the face of adversity "stickers".
If an investor needs fifty patches of land adjacent to each other, the last landholder can hold it to ransom, because the whole project hinges on acquiring the fiftieth parcel.It follows that governments need not invoke their powers of eminent domain for all public goods—only those that require lots of contiguous patches of land.
A 20-year program of enlargement and improvement of his estates made him a major landholder and a very wealthy man.
By 1793 he had become a large landholder, having attained power as inspector of public works and paymaster of the corps.
With a grant of land at the western end of Île de Montréal, La Salle acquired at one stroke the status of a seigneur (i.e., landholder) and the opportunities of a frontiersman.
The son of an army officer and landholder, Călinescu practiced law at Piteşti and later was an organizer for the National Peasant Party.
It also highlights that many nearby landholders aren't happy about the new boundary.
The government has formally requested the world heritage committee reduce the protected Tasmanian forest area by 4.7%, claiming that the Tasmanian economy will benefit and that landholders were not properly consulted over the extension.
The ordinance does away with a requirement that, when a large industrial project is proposed, some 80% of affected landholders must consent to a land purchase for the proposal to go ahead (or 70% for projects in which the government has a stake).
In Guinea, writes Mr French, "there was mounting resentment over the way China was seen to be…despoiling the environment, dispossessing powerless landholders or flouting local laws, fuelling corruption, and, most of all, empowering awful governments".
What is more, the land-reform law left a lot to the discretion of the country's parliament, in which landholders were heavily represented.
