Sentence examples for landholder. from inspiring English sources

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.

His "Letters to a Landholder," printed in the Connecticut Courant and the American Mercury, had a broad influence during the ratification debates, much as the Federalist papers did in New York.

Until the eve of the Revolution he devoted himself to the duties and pleasures of a great landholder, varied by several weeks' attendance every year in the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg.

The next wave of Normans, led by the sons of a lesser Norman landholder, Tancred of Hauteville, undertook a full-scale effort to conquer the south.

Bhave's idea of the land-gift movement was conceived in 1951, while he was touring villages in the province of Andhra Pradesh, when a landholder offered him an acreage in response to his appeal on behalf of a group of landless Dalits (members of the lowest castes, formerly called "untouchables" and now officially named Scheduled Castes).

Humphrey designated his half brother Robert Guiscard as successor and guardian of his infant son Abelard, but on Humphrey's death Robert seized Abelard's lands, thus becoming the greatest landholder in southern Italy and laying the foundation for his own power.