Sentence examples for seized lands from inspiring English sources

In 1142 Louis seized lands belonging to his most powerful vassal, Thibaut, count of Champagne.

Decades of fighting seized lands from the indigenous Patagonians and greatly expanded Argentina's agricultural opportunities in the country's south.

People standing up for victims are being killed or threatened for taking part in the justice and peace hearings or for seeking the return of seized lands.

Nusseibeh despises its maximalist hallucinations, and prefers to emphasize "the liberation of the human being" over "a return to the seized lands of the past".

When the French seized lands that were under his personal protection in 1867, he committed suicide in protest of the use of force by the French in a cause for which they lacked any moral justification.

In particular, Charles Martel recognized the military potential of the stirrup, and distributed seized lands to his retainers on condition that they serve him by fighting in the new manner.

Dispossessed peasants regularly take to the streets over seized land.

The US also seized land for its own use.

But the MDC accepts that it cannot restore the seized land to its former owners.

But critics claim that without redevelopment only subsistence farming will be possible on seized land.

Israel seized land in 1967, but since then most has been returned and the rest remains contested.