Sentence examples for lay land from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, Rothstein wrote, the United States continued to emphasize bombing and conventional warfare while "the war became increasingly unconventional," with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters "operating in small cells, emerging only to lay land mines and launch nighttime rocket attacks before disappearing once again".

The JNA ordered its border guards posted along Hungarian border from Čakovec to Ludbreg to lay land mines around their facilities, then cross into Hungary and surrender themselves to authorities.

Those included the lands controlled by the Piast princes, their rivals the great lay land owners and church entities, all the way down to the knightly class; the work force ranged from hired "free" people, through serfs attached to the land, to slaves (purchased or war and other prisoners).

There across the sea, on a suspect Continent, lay lands of constitutions, Napoleonic legal codes, defeated armies, imperfect freedom, rabies, wife-swapping and garlic.

To the east of the Hetmanate lay lands that until the 17th century had remained largely unpopulated part of the "wild fields" since the Mongol invasion.

"Port Ellon in particular could see some minor localised flooding to low lying land and roads on the high tides around 04:00 and 16:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

At the time, the Mediterranean basin was an almost entirely dry expanse of low lying land, between 1.5km and 2.7km beneath today's sea level.

The agency said a number of flood warnings and alerts had been lifted but there were some still in place for low lying land near rivers.

Intensive production of livestock (using mostly low lying land) is resulting in under-grazing in uplands and resultant increased fire, less watershed health, less biological diversity, and more gorse invasion.

Leigh is situated on low lying land to the north west of Chat Moss.

Most of its course is through low lying land that is at or just above sea level, causing flooding to be a long-standing problem.