Sentence examples for reclamation- from inspiring English sources

The problem is that these debris dumps lay the ground for illegal reclamation of land, in flagrant violation of a law restricting construction on coastal areas.

The Australian government has not ruled out expanding its existing program of surveillance flights over the South China Sea amid regional tensions over China's land reclamation activities in disputed territory.

The debate followed comments from the secretary of the Australian Department of Defence, Dennis Richardson, that China's land reclamation activity in the South China Sea "had been at a pace and scale over the last two years beyond anything we have previously seen".

Hunt added that he would require all spoil from future dredging in central and northern Queensland to be placed at the "shoreline, near to shore or land reclamation disposal".

Andrews hit out at Beijing's reclamation program during an Asian security summit in Singapore on Sunday.

Coastal regulations make reclamation difficult, said Narinder Nayar, chairman of the business-sponsored Mumbai First.

More important, he promises to make more land available: for example through zoning changes, the redevelopment of old residential sites and land-reclamation projects.The local press is abuzz with stories about homeowners rushing to sell to cash in on high prices before looser land policy kicks in.

In a tit-for-tat row over satellite photographs showing land-reclamation work by China on several contested reefs, the Chinese foreign ministry claimed that the Philippines itself had engaged in "large-scale construction of military and civil facilities" on islands in the sea for many years.Police in Thailand recovered 26 bodies from a mass grave in the south of the country near Malaysia.

Since the 1950s costly public land-reclamation schemes have struggled to recoup investments.

Not only has it faced criticism from environmental groups because of the impact its sand purchases have had in the exporting countries, in 2003 it also faced a legal challenge under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) from Malaysia over land-reclamation projects at either end of the Johor Strait that separates the two countries.

Mr Carter demanded that China and the other claimants implement an "immediate and lasting halt" to land-reclamation projects.