Sentence examples for the common land from inspiring English sources
The scheme was not popular with the local fenmen, who made a living from fishing and wildfowling, or with the Commoners, who had a right to graze animals on the common land when it was not flooded.
The enclosure acts swallowed the common land which had provided the highwaymen with cover.
In the '30s, there was an effort by regular working-class people to reclaim the common land as their own.
The old network of traditional stopping places has been dug and ditched, the common land enclosed, and no space has been left for the willfully unhoused.
The passing of a single bill repealing just one act of enclosure could begin the reversal of ownership at least of the common land stolen from the people.
It all became so clear the minute English Heritage denied us the right to put a gate onto the common land above the house.
Some were social reformers, such as Gerrard Winstanley, whose followers, agrarian communists known as Diggers, believed that the common lands should be returned to the common people.
In 1649, calling upon the people "to manure and work upon the common lands," he and a band of followers occupied a hillside in southern England and established a society of agrarian free communism.
The scale dependence of biophysical variation (e.g., mixtures of vegetation cover types), as depicted in Landsat observations, was assessed for the common land-cover types bordering the Tapajós National Forest, Central Brazilian Amazon.
In the common lands, the major transformations occur between forests and semi-natural areas, with a general temporal increase in broad-leaved forest and degraded forest areas and a decrease in agricultural and agro-forestry areas, showing improvements to forest land through the introduction of new species and forest maintenance reflected in smaller subdivisions of patterns of land use.
The synapsid pelycosaurs and their descendants the therapsids are the most common land vertebrates in the best-known Permian fossil beds.
