Sentence examples for seizing lands from inspiring English sources

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.

We loop north, stopping at Ruthin to take a peek at the castle of Glyndŵr's enemy, Lord de Grey, the English nob who triggered the rebellion by seizing lands that were not his.

Senator Graham's pending bill would provide federal financing for local initiatives to combat Ecstasy use, giving priority to communities "passing ordinances restricting rave clubs" and "seizing lands under nuisance abatement laws to make new restrictions on an establishment's use".

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

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

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.

Many parents preferred a new school on the old site and some feared the rancor that could come with seizing land for a new school.

He said the previous government "completely botched up" the project by seizing land from farmers without negotiating prices, a conclusion that even some communist leaders now acknowledge.