Sentence examples for seizing land from inspiring English sources

And he has been busily engaged in seizing land in Kandahar, particularly land that might be rented to the newly arriving American troops.

Mayors have developed creative ways to raise revenues, including appropriating farmers' land and seizing land on the outskirts of cities to sell to developers.

Opposition leaders have been jailed and killed, and his allies have been seizing land on a large scale, according to human rights groups.

It opened with I.R.S. agents confiscating horses from a farmer, cops seizing land, and federal agents breaking into the wrong home during a drug raid.

If Tiananmen Square is untouchable, elsewhere in China, the government has been hungrily seizing land and demolishing buildings in its quest for growth.

Even as the House debated, Sherman's army was marching into South Carolina, and slaves were sacking plantation homes and seizing land.

TransCanada appeared to take stock of those changes when it backed away from its earlier strategy of seizing lands in Nebraska for the pipeline route.

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.