Sentence examples for seize land from inspiring English sources

Landowners have begun joining forces and challenging the company's assumption that it can legally seize land.

But regulations permit local officials to seize land for vaguely defined economic development.

Hundreds were reported dead as Ethiopia used helicopter gunships and jets, and both sides used ground troops, to seize land.

Officials, working together with developers, seize land around the country to make enormous profits in a ballooning economy, he said.

But the Haitian government only this week took the necessary step of invoking eminent-domain power to seize land.

It plotted to seize land and then forcibly compel Muslims to join its ranks — on pain of death.

I don't recall all the possible answers, but B was "to escape the violence they faced at home" and C was "to invade and seize land".

In rural areas, the government has embarked on an ambitious plan to seize land stolen by the mafias and return it to its original owners.

Afghans in several provinces have complained that local warlords seize land from them and then lease it to local NATO forces.

"We are using a law to seize land for security reasons, and the law is very clear," a defence ministry official told Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper last month.

Serving at first as mercenaries, the brothers soon began to seize lands for themselves.