Sentence examples for upon the lands from inspiring English sources

Large-scale landlordism gradually reappeared, as powerful families encroached upon the lands of poor neighbours.

Up on the Manhattan Bridge yesterday, high above the East River, the people did look down upon the lands and waters and big metal structures around them, and they were unanimous on two counts.

In the flux of social and economic life in the 15th and 16th centuries, three interconnected processes may be observed: a steady economic growth, mainly from colonization and trade; an expansion in the power of the central government; and the encroachment of the nobility upon the lands previously held by the free peasantry, accompanied by the reduction of the bulk of the peasantry to serf status.

But further, strained relations must also be placed within the wider Israeli Arab conflict geopolitical context; Israel was created as a state for the Jewish people upon the lands of historic Palestine, home of the Bedouin people, a subset of the Palestinians.

A token amount of plot: Every thirty seasons, a mythical dragon 'the world-gobbler' returns to wreak death upon the lands of Lord Arnold.

Beinn na Caillich on the Isle of Skye is one of her haunts, as are other mountains prominent in the landscape, and from which fierce storms of sleet and rain descend, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the lands below.

It rested upon the land.

A new sort of political bossism was upon the land.

European settlers had encroached upon the land since the 17th century.

For the most part, a great silence weighs upon the land.

With war upon the land, President Lincoln called for 75,000 militiamen to serve for three months.