Sentence examples for taking up land from inspiring English sources

With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the building of the first railroad out of Chicago in 1848, a greater flood than ever of homeseekers from the East came to Illinois, taking up land especially in the northern part of the state.

Officials are not sure what to do when people are erecting smoke shops without permission, "taking up land, precious water and precious electricity," says Araujo.

What I do — remodeling — doesn't take up land".

However critics say that biofuels take up land for growing food and raise prices.

Hired labourers, being fewer, asked for higher wages and better food, and peasant tenants, also fewer, asked for better conditions of tenure when they took up land.

Standing there, I remembered how my mother's stories had always finished: "He was freed and took up land on the Hawkesbury river - he did well for himself and died a rich man". In the context of the Walk for Reconciliation, I suddenly realised that Wiseman hadn't "taken up" land; he'd simply "taken" it from the Aboriginal people - perhaps by force.

1938 Italian Colonists Go to Ethiopia ROME — The first practical steps toward the colonization of the new Italian conquest were taken today when 150 men, all heads of families, left Brindisi to take up land in Ethiopia.

He assumed that Spaniards had the right to take up land in California and that the church had the duty to reorganize Indians into Christian settlements, by force if necessary.

Few dispute that in the very short term it is a better source of fuel than petroleum, but sugar production takes up land and potentially raises the cost of food, and its production is far from carbon-neutral.

In the context of the Walk for Reconciliation, I suddenly realised that Wiseman hadn't "taken up" land; he'd simply "taken" it from the Aboriginal people - perhaps by force.

Standing there, I remembered how my mother's stories had always finished: "He was freed and took up land on the Hawkesbury river - he did well for himself and died a rich man".