Sentence examples for negotiated land from inspiring English sources

WILLIAM D. LeMOULT Barrington, R.I., May 23, 2011 To the Editor: President Obama's call for Israel to return to the pre-1967 lines (along with negotiated land swaps) is an outrage.

Kevin Essington, who is assigned to the southern office, said that in his previous job, in Colorado, he negotiated land preservation deals to prevent cities from growing into one another.

Therefore, if corridor mapping is approached as part of an ongoing process of negotiated land use planning rather than as an end in itself, it can be an important step in enabling coordination across competing institutions.

In a March 2009 poll commissioned by J Street, 60% of American Jews opposed Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, 76% supported a peace agreement on the 1967 borders with negotiated land swaps (the position recently articulated by President Obama), and 69% supported the U.S. working with a unified Fatah-Hamas Palestinian Authority government to achieve a peace agreement with Israel.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group on Sunday, defending his stance that talks over a Palestinian state should be focused on Israel's pre-1967 borders, along with negotiated land swaps, and challenging Israel to "make the hard choices" necessary to bring about a stable peace.

Mr. Obama ran into trouble when he said in May that the starting point for any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians should be the geographical lines that existed before the 1967 war that rearranged the Middle East maps, but with negotiated land exchanges to account for enormous demographic changes that have taken place over the decades.

Israel has moved to the right as it has lost faith in Labour's message: that a negotiated land-for-peace agreement with Palestinians can bring a lasting end to conflict.That said, some rightists have moved leftward, embracing the idea that Israel cannot forever hold on to a growing and restive Palestinian population.

Growers that belong to the round table have to meet certain criteria, like negotiating land use with local communities and refraining from clearing virgin forest, before receiving certification.

Israel should dismantle settlements not contiguous with its border and negotiate land swaps to redraw borders around the most populated areas.

The Rome body allows peasant organisations and NGOs to negotiate land rules on a level footing with governments and global institutions.

Large tracts of land were never taken from the Indians by treaty, and various groups are still negotiating land claims and self-government with the federal and provincial governments.