Sentence examples for operating a plantation from inspiring English sources

Steuart spent the rest of a long life operating a plantation in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

And at least half of all deforestation in the tropics is illegal: A rubber company in Cambodia operating a plantation within a national park.

In the Moluccas, the Portuguese were displaced in 1605 by the Dutch East India Company, which operated a plantation economy as harsh as anything in the sugar islands of the West Indies.

—Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, after federal authorities seized fourteen 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and Virginia and accused their owners of operating a "modern-day plantation system".

It also operates a cocoa plantation in St Lucia.

This early 18th-century gambrel roof farmhouse and tavern near the Delaware River was owned by Garret Johnson, who operated a 490-acre plantation and a ferry service across the river in the 1700s.

For years, the Unilever corporation operated a palm oil plantation in the Congolese forest in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.

It might be possible to operate a successful diamond mine, cotton plantation, or sock factory by treating employees as automatons and ignoring their basic needs, but that doesn't work for scientists.

The land they traditionally use has been sold to investors operating the Koko plantation, a Malaysia-backed project that exports palm oil and other food and farming products.

The fine folks who operate Plimoth Plantation, a historical museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, sent me some grits made with a reproduction 1636 grist mill so that it would be as historically accurate as possible.

At first, he was assigned to Fordlandia, a plantation operated by the Ford Motor Company on the banks of the Tapajós River to supply rubber to the war effort.