Sentence examples for turf off from inspiring English sources

Leaving aside the difficulty of creating species to replace the ones you've wiped out, this also means imposing property rights on land being used by the people in that paradise, who you might have to turf off their land.

Mr McKenzie explained that the project involved taking away the turf off the football pitch.

Except it wasn't a campsite, it was a caravan park from which we were turfed off the following morning.

The authorities had launched an "anti-drought initiative" which included chopping down fruit trees – conveniently allowing them to slash compensation to families turfed off the land.

Sure, if Twitter shut up shop tomorrow – turfing off its 284m users – then Isis would use other social media platforms, but as none of those platforms are as famous as Twitter, it makes less sexy news.

Singapore had not seen a riot since 1969.The trouble started when an apparently drunk construction worker from south India, Sakthivel Kumaravelu, was turfed off a crowded bus after making a scene.

Unlike in Cambodia and China, where peasants are turfed off their land with little or no compensation, Vietnam's more consensus-minded authorities are ensuring that the small farmers displaced by the city's expansion get decent compensation.

Once you got there, budget travellers were advised to head up the mountain behind the village and down to a beach so remote that there was no risk of being turfed off by the police.

Millions of other peasants in China who have been turfed off the land in recent years by villages eager to profit from developers are far less happy.Beihe's bet is that the success of private industry in the area will boost incomes and with it demand for cars.

On October 15th Amnesty International reported on preparations for "a strategy to manipulate people through fear of hunger".Some voters and activists are also being promised land: a fresh round of evictions got going last month as disaffected black peasant "settlers" were turfed off farms in northern Zimbabwe to make way for Mr Mugabe's more loyal supporters.Is there any hope?

But even that has been tarnished in some cases by social conflict, for example when locals or indigenous groups have been turfed off their land to make room for plantations.Such matters are increasingly difficult for buyers of palm oil to ignore.