Sentence examples for seize lands from inspiring English sources

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

The "despicable criminal operations," as the presiding judge, Christoph Flügge of Germany, called them, came at the end of a Serb campaign to seize lands slated for Serbs only.

Quite often the pochteca would seize lands of hostile peoples through which they passed, or they would provoke incidents that led to the intervention of the regular Aztec army.

Voters there rejected a proposal by President Robert Mugabe, whose government has been ruining the economy while plundering the Congo, to seize lands without compensation and place still more power in his hands.

In 1164 Henry intervened to seize lands along the border of Brittany and Normandy, and in 1166 invaded Brittany to punish the local barons.

"We want to bolster support for these efforts, not the efforts of those attempting to seize lands owned by all Americans".

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

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

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

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

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