Sentence examples for seizes land from inspiring English sources

The government often seizes land to hand to investors, rarely consulting or compensating the residents, who are resettled without any say in the matter.

That compensation, Mr. Love said, is based on eminent domain, the principle used when the government seizes land for a highway or military base.

Senior American officials spent months weighing the allegations against Ahmed Wali Karzai: that he pays off Taliban insurgents, that he launders money, that he seizes land, that he reaps enormous profits by facilitating the shipment of opium through the area.

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

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

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.