Sentence examples for taking over lands from inspiring English sources

He even assumed royal prerogatives, such as taking over lands lacking rightful owners.

It seeks domination, is taking over lands and is likely to go on for a very long time.

Hugh used his relationship with the king to expand his power across the region, taking over lands throughout South Wales.

The Dál Riatan lands along the River Bush appear to have fallen into the hands of the Cenél nEógain, and the Airgíalla may have benefitted by taking over lands to the south of the Antrim Mountains.

In Case 8, dispossession not only occurred due to termination of sharecropping or land rental arrangements, but also because established palm oil producers and newcomers took over lands left by displaced people to expand or establish oil palm plantations [67].

Vietnam is a big coffee exporter and plantations are spreading into the highlands, flattening forests and taking over land that the Montagnards consider ancestral territory.

Rural officials often pocket much of the money paid by developers as compensation for the land-lorn peasants, or make great profits by taking over land at little or no cost and selling it at market prices.

They hear AIDS and they say, 'What are we doing there?' They hear Mugabe is taking over land and they wonder if it's going to trickle down to South Africa".

The state government says it is taking over land which has been willingly sold by local farmers.

But more conservative Islamic tenets have taken over lands, communities, families, heads and hearts.

About the same period, southward-migrating Burmans took over lands in central Myanmar and established the kingdom of Pagan.