Sentence examples for powerful land from inspiring English sources

That's what makes America such a powerful land.

Then he outbids a powerful land developer, buys the estate and puts everybody out.

Denmark granted a measure of home rule to Greenland in 1979; Nunavut was established in 1999 along with a sweepingly powerful Land Claims agreement designed to atone for Canada's previous offences against the aboriginal peoples.

A rich, powerful land owner, called the Protector in Crimp's libretto, commissions an artist, the Boy, to celebrate his life and the achievements of his family in an extravagant illuminated book.

Having so done, he hastened to the Hellespont, and when a vast multitude of ships had been brought together, and likewise a powerful land force, he conveyed his troops across the strait by means of his vessels, and proceeded through Europe against Eretria and Athens.

It's traditionally been tagged Anglia Transwalliana, Little England beyond Wales (or Lloegr bach Dros Cymru, in Cymraeg), and, true, you won't hear Welsh spoken a great deal here (not compared with, say, Anglesey, whose geography it at times resembles), but in many ways this ancient, powerful land is deeply, boastfully, quintessentially Welsh.

The environmental group Greenpeace said the moratorium showed that Indonesia had committed itself to the rhetoric of forest conservation, but it contended that compromises to powerful land-clearing industries like palm oil and pulp and paper would undercut the effort.

The environmental group Greenpeace said the moratorium showed that Indonesia had committed itself to the rhetoric of forest conservation but that the plan was crippled by trade-offs to powerful land-clearing industries like palm oil and pulp and paper.

The Soviets have argued that the U.S. proposal seeks to slash the powerful land-based missiles that serve as the heart of their nuclear arsenal and would entail a massive revamping of their military forces.

For 10 years, she has been fighting on multiple fronts: against the Norwegian-owned Hydro Alunorte refinery in Barcarena, against the Albras bauxite mine that supplies it, against powerful land-grabbing politicians, against investors, against first-world consumers who use tin cans, foil, non-stick pans, beer kegs and aeroplane parts without a thought about the environmental and social costs.

Land is usually owned by families, militating against the emergence of a small, powerful landed class wielding economic control over a landless class.