Sentence examples for seized farms from inspiring English sources

Eddie reckons that at least half the seized farms now lie derelict.

He said 841 farms had to be made available for resettlement before the squatters left any of the seized farms.

They doubt that he will actually seize farms without paying for them.

Black people had been denied access to the mainstream economy and to education, he added, but nationalising mines or seizing farms were not the answer.

The plot has involved seizing farms, intimidating supporters of the opposition party, charging its leaders with treason, harassing the press, arresting dissenters, disenfranchising citizens, expelling monitors, ignoring court rulings, obstructing voters and spreading violence throughout the land.

The police have mostly stood by since the farm occupations began in February after President Robert Mugabe lost a constitutional referendum that would have allowed the government to seize farms without paying compensation.

Most disastrously, he seized the farms and doled them out to loyalists who squandered their bounty.

John Morton, a sheriff of Chester County in Pennsylvania who would sign the Declaration of Independence, seized 180 farms between 1766 and 1769.

A voracious collector of stolen farms, his wife seized a tobacco farm then pocketed international award for its record crop.

"War veterans", the groups responsible for seizing white farms, were also said to be involved.Theories abound.

On May 31st the government announced that, before the election, it would be seizing 841 farms by decree.