Sentence examples for overcrowded land from inspiring English sources

Oxford University Press; 276 pages; $69 and £37.50ALMOST since Marco Polo, western views of China have been distorted by a belief that there is something savage in the Chinese pysche and that only brutal authority can avert recurring chaos in an overcrowded land.

What about this overcrowded land?

While the flooding is indiscriminate in who it affects — India's financial capital, Mumbai, has been seriously hit — it's the poor who are typically worst affected, as they often live on cheap, overcrowded land prone to flooding or landslides.

In 2005, Pappe and two friends wrote a warning online that Israeli settlers were being moved out of Gaza to allow government forces a free hand to bomb the residents of that overcrowded strip of land.

The school runs two shifts, one in the morning, one after lunch, each with a different set of children, teachers and administration, maximising the use of the site to meet the demands of this most overcrowded strip of land.

Hamas has begun to raise new taxes in Gaza in an apparent effort to shore up their coffers – as the economy of the small, overcrowded strip of land descends into a vast and often unfathomable parallel market.

But it would have been better to spell out just what it has been responsible for: a cruel blockade of Gaza designed to keep the citizens of that overcrowded strip of land on a near-starvation diet; the murder at will of officials of the elected Hamas government; and the continued theft of Arab land to ensure that there will be no progress in implementing the Oslo Accords.

We have not pushed Mexicans into an overcrowded plot of land in which they are virtual prisoners.

It was a brutalist cement hockey puck, as flat and overcrowded as the land on which it sat.

In Cuiaba the worry is that capitalist development will ruin the environment and drive people off the land into overcrowded cities; in the United States it is that global market forces will export jobs and prosperity to places like Cuiaba.The market for theories of economic distress may have gone global, but the United States, the world's mightiest economy, remains the pre-eminent supplier.

The latest incarnation of the idea is in plans for huge floating platforms that could be used as aircraft carriers, airports, or simply as additional land in overcrowded coastal cities.Float, an engineering company based in San Diego, has been testing floating platforms, to be made out of concrete cylinders, for the American defence department.