Sentence examples for limiting land from inspiring English sources

Limiting land consumption is an undisputed priority today.

Three years later Saʿīd passed another law limiting land inheritance to Muslims, thus considerably reducing the circle of relatives entitled to an inheritance.

While experiencing high growth rates of urban land, policies were reconsidered and adapted with the goal of limiting land consumption in favour of a more sustainable urban development.

The housing market draws its continuing strength from low mortgage rates, an expanding population, rising incomes and, in a lot of areas, anti-sprawl measures limiting land for new homes.

In this regard a major deficiency of the existing national approaches lies in the fact that, so far, only two countries have set clear political targets: Germany has set a target to reduce land take for human settlements and transport infrastructure to a maximum of 30 ha a day and Switzerland has set a target of limiting land consumption for residential purposes at 400 m2 per capita.

These tunneling mammals sport what looks like a sixth digit on each front paw, a seeming exception to the rule limiting land vertebrates to 10 fingers.

It meant Australia relied mainly on creating carbon sinks by limiting land-clearing and planting trees.

"We have limited land in the village," he said.

Such rapid population growth can easily strain limited land and water resources.

"We have limited land and increased demand, and that drives prices," said Donna Apisa, president of Oceanfront Realty in Princeville.

Growth may be limited by concerns that the project will compete with food crops, however, especially as Britain has limited land.