Sentence examples for significant lands from inspiring English sources

On the way it passes pitch pines, globally rare dwarf pines, hardwood forests, glacial hills and kettleholes, a maple swamp, freshwater wetlands, grasslands, beaches and bluffs -- some of the most beautiful and environmentally significant lands left on Long Island.

Although some members of Israel's Cabinet — notably, the future Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin — believed from the start that the Biblically significant lands of the West Bank should be part of Israel, most secular Israelis thought that the territories would be given back to the Arabs in return for peace.

Fact: As early as 1832 Congress began retaining nationally significant lands with national parks and national forests soon amounting to tens of millions of acres.

John, the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was at first not expected to inherit significant lands.

Is it a community of 20 or a community of 100?" Buckskin said the communities likely to be affected are inhabited by families that have moved away from larger towns and back to culturally significant lands decades ago.

"We are talking significant land holdings.

But Israel has been doing just that for the last decade, by handing over significant land and authority.

It soon became the victim of a significant land-grab by those once thought to be their mortal enemies.

The state has acquired 215 acres of environmentally significant land in the Croton watershed for $2.1 million under the New York City Watershed Agreement.

Haile Selassie showed himself unable to implement significant land reform, and, as a result, progressives and students opposed the regime.

Many have built up significant land holdings, in some cases the equivalent of ten years-worth of building.