A deal that makes everyone better off might exist in principle, if the social value of the project exceeds the sum required to persuade all land-holders to sell.
O'Malley began courting Moses in 1953, hoping to persuade him to condemn land where he might build a new ballpark.
These, it is feared, would take advantage of any changes to persuade farmers unaware of land values to sell their holdings at less than market rates.
Yes he Cam!" At the time, in the aftermath of global financial meltdown, Mr. Cameron's Conservatives were trying to persuade Britons that the land faced a common destiny.
"It's a disappointment," said Rachel Tew, who has lived on the block for decades and is a member of a Harlem land trust that tried to persuade the church to give it the land or sell at a discount.
The more he is asked about not giving up, the more bitterly he recalls how other farmers in southwestern Connecticut have been persuaded to sell land to developers.
"We will also continue to try and persuade the owners to sell the land to a community land trust owned by the local community".
Not surprisingly it won him suitors across the land, enough to persuade the American that he had outgrown his Craven Cottage surroundings.
The attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, was looking into a report that the city, through the Economic Development Corporation, was the source of funds for lobbyists who helped persuade the City Council to condemn land in Willets Point, Queens.
The case in the supreme court involved a company called Asset Land, which persuaded investors to buy plots of land at "hugely inflated" prices, according to the Financial Conduct Authority.
