Sentence examples for vast concession from inspiring English sources

Community leaders in the vast concession area part-owned by agribusiness company Feronia say living conditions on their estates are abysmal and claim that their ancestral land along the River Congo has been taken from them illegally.

Gabriel Resources was born in the breakup of the state-owned economy after Communism's collapse when Romanian businessmen with little mining experience and suspected ties to the former secret police won a vast concession to exploit mineral deposits.

Hoping for further concessions, Alrosa in recent weeks opened an office in Luanda.Meanwhile, in the Cuango valley, another consortium, including Endiama, Odebrecht, and Ashton Mining, an Australian firm, has spent six months rehabilitating the area of its vast concession, measuring 86,500 square kilometres, and is now starting to ramp up production there.

At best, certifiers may struggle to examine vast concessions on brief visits, as the guests of loggers who are also paying their fee.

After the Chinese Revolution of 1911, Manchuria came under the nominal control of the local warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was forced to grant the Japanese vast concessions in the region in return for their tacit military support.

Compiled over almost a decade by Greenpeace using data from provincial governments, resource companies and others, the interactive maps highlight the vast scale of the concession overlap.

"China Gas provides a vast pipeline network and concession rights, which would be a solid base for future growth," said Shi Yan, an analyst based in Shanghai at the securities firm UOB Kay Hian.

I was on the 60,000-hectare Jao Concession, a vast tract of land – most of it underwater even in the driest part of the dry season – in the heart of Botswana's famed Okavango Delta.

As vast mineral and timber concessions were handed to British and American companies, the global superpowers raised not a squeak of protest.

Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Bloomberg's spokesman, noted that some union leaders have said they preferred layoffs to concessions and added that concessions anger the vast majority of union members, whose votes they need to for re-election.

Tay Za, reputedly the wealthiest man in Myanmar, holds vast teak and other timber concessions through his principal firm, the Htoo Group.