Sentence examples for lands established from inspiring English sources

Freedmen's Bureau, (1865 72), during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

Small villages and agricultural lands established on alluvial fans were frequently inundated by debris-flows.

That's beyond the Green Line, the demarcation line dividing Palestinian and Israeli lands established after Jewish inhabitants of what had been British Mandate-controlled Palestine declared a state in 1948 and defeated the Arabs.

President Roosevelt went on to protect hundreds of millions of acres of public lands, establishing a number of national monuments, the U.S. Forest Service and set the stage for creating the National Park Service in 1916.

In April 1891, Renny-Tailyour grannouncedounced that he and Lobengula had made an agreement: in return for £1,000 up front and £500 annually, the king would bestow on Lippert the exclusive rights to manage lands, establish banks, mint money, and conduct trade in the territory of the Chartered Company.

After completing their sentences, most found work as labourers or tradesmen, but the more-enterprising acquired land, established businesses, or, when suitably qualified, entered the professions.

Bissinger's sweeping if sometimes baggy and overwrought dispatch from what — for most readers — was a strange land established rules that are nearly as strict as a sonnet's.

The Phocaeans arrived in Anatolia perhaps as late as the 10th century bce and, lacking arable land, established colonies in the Dardanelles at Lampsacus, on the Black Sea at Amisus (Samsun), and on the Crimean Peninsula.

Johnson vetoed the Bill anyway, calling the Freedmen's Bureau unconstitutional, and decrying its cost Congress had never purchased land, established schools, or provided financial help for "our own people".

And the grid itself is a kind of artificial imposition on the land, establishing boundaries designed both to protect nature and to restrict its unruly spread.

Intended to prevent speculation in farmland, it would limit the amount of land held by any owner, exclude corporate buyers from acquiring land, establish a requirement of residence close to the purchased land and require a buyer to have at least a high school diploma in agriculture.