Sentence examples for tracts for from inspiring English sources

They interviewed dozens of department officials about the program to lease tracts for shale exploration.

Where marshes have been drained to create tracts for new housing, ground will shrink, too.

Shell was unsuccessful on 27 tracts for which it had bid another $82 million.

ConocoPhillips was unsuccessful on 47 tracts for which it bid $593.6 million.

It comes at a time of renewed public debate in the country about opening other offshore tracts for exploration.

In the years and decades ahead, scientists want to deploy millions of these kinds of devices over large tracts for long periods, opening new windows on nature.

Oil companies have long suspected that the Arctic contained substantial energy resources, and have been spending billions recently to get their hands on tracts for exploration.

It begins in the wilderness, in the early 1950's, with Russell Kirk, Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley Jr. writing tracts for small bands of true believers.

He contributed a tract on fasting to Tracts for the Times in 1834, and a year later he wrote for the series an extensive tract on baptism.

The ideas of the movement were published in 90 Tracts for the Times (1833 41), 24 of which were written by Newman, who edited the entire series.

Movements begin with vision statements such as Tracts for the Times for the Anglo-Catholic movement, or clear bold action such as the Evangelical Movement for Social Reform under the Clapham Sect, not with detailed governance procedures.