Sentence examples for stripped land from inspiring English sources

For him, it sums up the confiscatory approach that Texaco took to that country, leaving it a stripped land oozing with toxic pollutants.

Turkish officials have railed against US moves to use Syrian Kurdish units as a proxy ground force to fight Isis and have bitterly opposed the alliance, even as it has stripped land from the group near its Syrian hub of Raqqa.

Only 7percentt of stripped land is being redeveloped.

But in 1877, the opportunities for blacks created during Reconstruction were taken away -- quite literally -- by a compromise that stripped land, rights and political power.

Under-nourished goats produce less fleece, leading their herders to add even more animals to the already stripped land to keep up with production.

However, I do readily acknowledge our problem and have a long-term plan to utilize greater severance taxes on coal and Marcellus shale and recapture federal abandoned mine land funds to "put the dozers in reverse," reshape stripped land to become solar collection farms, and develop solar factories so as to begin transitioning MTR miners to the green and sustainable energy jobs of the future.

The takeaway: Strip-mining more than stripped the land; it stripped the traces of any human contact.

Lenders were repaid $100 million and MGM gave them security interests in the Gold Strike Tunica resort in Mississippi and undeveloped Las Vegas Strip land.

Aztar, which is based in Phoenix, is prized for its 34 acres of Las Vegas Strip land that are considered ripe for redevelopment.

With Strip land prices now $20 million an acre and rising, he might find brokering too tame for his blood.

A. Israel should stop all hostilities in the Gaza Strip land, sea and air including incursions and targeting of individuals.