Sentence examples for lands awarded from inspiring English sources

This they accomplished mainly by subjugating the remaining Indians under the encomienda system, which granted settlers the use of Indian labour on lands awarded by the crown.

Most shockingly, the town of Srebrenica, site of the July 1995 massacre of 7,000 Muslims – and an overwhelmingly Muslim town before almost all its male inhabitants were murdered – was included in the lands awarded to the Serbs.

Farther north, developers amid the inland hills of Alameda County contend that the 400,000 acres of protected lands awarded to the whipsnake are so ill-conceived they blanket the entire city of Dublin, a town of 32,000 people.

The Tri Tepusan inscription, dated 842, is mentioned in the sima, the (tax-free) lands awarded by Çrī Kahulunnan (Pramodhawardhani) to ensure the funding and maintenance of a Kamūlān called Bhūmisambhāra.

Following the war, Shelby relocated to Kentucky on lands awarded to him for his military service and became involved in Kentucky's transition from a county of Virginia to an independent state.

On remand, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York had found the counties liable to the Oneida for wrongful possession of their lands, awarded damages of $16,694, plus interest, representing the fair rental value of the land in question for the 2-year period specified in the complaint.

Cleruchy, in ancient Greece, body of Athenian citizens in a dependent country holding grants of land awarded by Athens.

Instead they formed alliances and created Roman settlements, with the choice tracts of land awarded to Romans.

The town was founded (1797) by Ebenezer Zane on land awarded him by the U.S. Congress for clearing a road (Zane's Trace) through the forest to Limestone (now Maysville), Ky.

Sizer says: "Even if they did not start the fires, they are responsible for massive and dramatic clearing of forests in the regions that have been burning, and to some extent for the conflicts with local communities that may be starting fires to stake their claim to land awarded in concessions to the companies".

These include parcels of land awarded during government resettlement programmes following Kenya's independence in 1963 together with privately acquired lands.