Sentence examples for rule of land from inspiring English sources

But prospects for "decoupling the rule of the sect from the rule of land," in that corner of the Levant are frankly poor.

Successive Presidents upheld the basic rule of land for peace.

But abandoning the traditional "first-come, first-served" rule of landing aircraft at busy airports will feel to many like another turn of the rack that is economy-class flying.

Although Czechoslovakia was not a party to the Hague Convention of 1907, the rules of land warfare expressed in this Convention are declaratory of existing international law and hence are applicable.

Another omission is the absence of any extended discussion of military, political responsibility for such matters as civilian casualties or the restraints imposed by the rules of land warfare.

In the great world metropolis urbanization advances significantly in the occupation of rural areas, although in some countries, such progress is conducted under certain rules of land use, while others are made of chaotic way.

This approach to analysing vulnerability therefore requires attention to social structures (such as modes of governance and rules of land tenure, for example) as well as to patterns of variance in resources and livelihood assets at the individual and household level (Pelling 2003; Few 2007; Gaillard 2008).

They were not allowed to touch me; that was the rule of the land.

The mandate turns buying health insurance into the rule of the land, like paying taxes.

The president's personal beliefs should not be the rule of the land.

In Britain, where open coal-burning fires are the rule of the land, retail coal supplies were down to a million tons — about two weeks' supply.