Sentence examples for possessed lands from inspiring English sources

The family possessed lands in Picenum, what is now the Marches region of eastern Italy, and a numerous body of clients, which Strabo greatly enlarged in the year of his consulship.

In 1634, the church possessed lands amounting to some 352 acre in Mereworth.

Unfortunately, Isabella was already engaged to Hugh de Lusignan, an important member of a key Poitou noble family and brother of Raoul de Lusignan, the Count of Eu, who possessed lands along the sensitive eastern Normandy border.

In the middle of the century inscriptions show that wealthy Athenians possessed land on the Lelantine Plain.

In consequence, though the treasury lacked money, it nonetheless possessed land in abundance, and Heraclius could easily have supported with grants of land those cavalry soldiers whose expenses in horses and armament he could not hope to meet with cash.

However, I do now possess land with ericaceous soil where I could grow camellias if I chose.

To be eligible for election as an MP, a man had to possess land worth £600 per annum if he was representing a county constituency and worth £300 per annum in the case of a borough constituency.

For instance, if a dispute arises among the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea over the rights of different clans to possess land, the contending parties take part in oral contests involving the recitation of long lists of mythological names and other details from the myths.

Frogs brilliantly possess land jumping and underwater swimming abilities [11], and thus greatly inspired relevant robot designs in bionic research.

In addition, cities already possess land use, transport, census and environmental monitoring data which is collected from various local, often not interconnected, sources and used by application specific systems but is rarely used as collective source of information (i.e. system of systems [18]) for urban governance and planning decisions.

Even when women do possess land, they're often granted poor-quality plots and their tenure is still insecure.