Sentence examples for retain land from inspiring English sources

The first was a federalist struggle over whether the federal government could retain land in former territories admitted as states notwithstanding the promise of equal footing.

Perched on a remote hilltop, this 1,600-year-old 1,600-year-old 1,600-year-old lawsuits contesting its right to retain land that church leaders say they have owned for centuries but have been unable to register because of bureaucratic stonewalling.

This is the first overt step taken in the agitation among the Chinese to demonstrate to Portugal that any effort to retain land and waterways, alleged by the Chinese to have been wrongly occupied, will be strongly resented.

Iran has fought aggressively to keep its ally Mr. Assad in power in order to retain land access to its most important spinoff in the region, Hezbollah, the military and political force that dominates Lebanon and threatens Israel.

Regarded as highly indiscriminate weapons, land mines are widely banned by the international community, though several nations, including the United States and Libya, have not signed the international convention prohibiting their production and use, and they retain land mines in their arsenals.

Now a growing number of Filipino peasants here are joining political activists to fight Mr. Cojunangco's "corporative," condemning it as a artful dodge imposed on them to retain land Mr. Cojuangco acquired, like his stake in San Miguel, during the corrupt rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos that ended with his overthrow in 1986.

Many migrants think it a good idea that some relatives remain: the stay-behinds can help retain land-use rights which might come in handy for the migrants if urban work dries up.

States that retain land-use planning in the larger counties and cities rather than concentrate such powers in the local villages and towns tend to benefit from the impartial efficiencies of the market and avoid the economic and social hardships of the high cost of housing, the resulting high cost of living and segregation based on race, income and age.

Restraints on alienation of land are used for a variety of legitimate purposes: retaining land in families; preserving affordable housing; furthering conservation, preservation, and charitable purposes to which land is devoted; and facilitating land investment and creating investment opportunities.

Where the landowner retains land in the area and the value of that land is increased because of the public improvement, the increase in value is frequently deducted from the compensation the landowner receives.

Where the owner has divided land in such a way that the conveyee has no convenient means of access except across the land retained by the conveyor, the conveyor will be presumed to have given the conveyee a right-of-way across the retained land (easement by implication).