Sentence examples for upon land from inspiring English sources

As agriculture becomes modernized, its dependence upon land as well as upon human labour decreases.

Property tax, levy that is imposed primarily upon land and buildings.

Single tax, originally a tax upon land values proposed as the sole source of government revenues, intended to replace all existing taxes.

But his use of this argument to reject the only viable formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace — a negotiated two-state solution based on mutually agreed upon land swaps — is wrong, and it does not serve Israel's security interests.

Q. Would you include in that category the formulation that President Obama laid out two years ago 19677 borders, with agreed upon land swaps, as a basis for the negotiation?

The terms of the injunction say: "The defendants shall not, without the prior written consent of the claimant, [Birmingham University] enter or remain upon land comprising the claimant's campus and buildings at the University of Birmingham... for the purpose of any occupational protest action".

"Until an agreed-upon land use plan is in place," he added, much of the site-related transportation work "cannot proceed in earnest".

They have demanded that the pre-1967 lineserveve as the basis of a final border, allowing for small modifications through agreed-upon land swaps to allow Israel to keep some of the settlements it has built.

But the language was not extraordinary, as other administrations have pursued a deal between the two sides using the same borders, with mutually agreed-upon land swaps, as a basis for talks.

The broad outlines of a peace agreement are well known and likely to be based on the borders of Israel before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, with certain agreed-upon land swaps.

"Generally speaking, as long as the tree or shrub in question is not unhealthy or poisonous, the owner of the intruded-upon land has no basis to sue the tree owner for the intrusion or for the expense of the pruning," he said.