He was charging the cray fishermen a fee to cross Maori land to launch their boats. |
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They have no land or houses, just low, corrugated iron structures that serve as houses. |
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On holidays, it is common for everyone to fish for crawfish in the mountain streams or to catch land crabs to add to the evening meal. |
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The land was a desert around him, but just beyond the reach of his fingertips, lightning forked from air to ground in continuous strikes. |
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Semi-final leader Blanik performed a very strong Tsukahara double pike, but appeared to land low on his piked handspring double front. |
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Arabs were popularly associated with moneylending, land and property ownership and close relations with the Dutch in Indonesia. |
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The Shambaa are mainly agriculturists who prefer tilling the land to craftwork. |
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While the fallen have long since cast off their earthly form, the land which cradled them and shared their suffering will never disappear. |
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Over 80 percent of the land area is still forested, and only 2.5 percent is cultivated. |
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Working close to home at a school outdoor education lab or a nearby forested land can cut down on travel time. |
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It opens up land on Haworth Moor, Keighley and Oakworth moors, Ilkley Moor, Ickornshaw Moor and in the Forest of Bowland. |
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Three-quarters of the land is covered with forests and woodland, and much of the land is cultivated with rice paddies. |
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It's also a cautionary tale about how telling porkies on the Internet can land you in a whole heap of trouble. |
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The population is 55 percent urban, with most people concentrated in the Pacific lowlands because of the fertile land there. |
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Rare fluellen is allowed to flourish in the vegetable garden because it needs arable land and is losing its natural habitat. |
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In short, land mines are nasty, out-of-date, and dangerous to your own side. |
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The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete. |
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Green mountains, winding creeks and fertile land make for a lyrical and carefree life. |
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As a result, large groups were excluded from politics, such as wage laborers, poor peasants, cottagers, land workers, and women. |
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Now there is the danger that when the people enjoy the plenty of the land they will forget God. |
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No matter how much you rape and pillage us and invade our land we will always be here. |
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But the foreseers do not believe this is the last time a war over land will occur between these neighbors. |
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At first glance it seems an odd fit, this touch of cosmopolitan chic in a land of cowpokes and pickup trucks. |
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If I put my hand really close to my face, I can squish the land between my forefinger and my thumb. |
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A dark, foreboding forest surrounded the land with a cobblestone drive leading out and into the rest of the world. |
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Still, when you land it is nice to have a few place names to help you locate your position. |
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He tips his black cowboy hat toward the oil and gas wells that pock the land around Navajo Lake. |
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So hunts moved into direct land management, buying and planting small pieces of rough scrub as coverts. |
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They should have a computerised land registry, so that for once and for all, the disputes are a thing of the past. |
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Somewhat ingenuous and too trusting, nevertheless he made a lasting contribution to the land he came to love. |
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Unlike float planes, flying boats land on the water on their fuselage as well as on their wing floats. |
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But just as dangerous was attempting to land his flying boat in the Sound of Mull without any navigational aids and in complete darkness. |
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The most common change is new land being rented or existing conacre agreements ending. |
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In addition, conacre or rented land that is no longer being farmed must be removed from the REPS plan. |
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Although unable to hold land a thrall could have possessions, money and time to do work for himself. |
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He said that the law which defined the liability of the possessor of land in cases of that kind had been settled for many years. |
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Homes on high land with a negligible risk of flooding may be turned down simply because they are in a high-risk postcode. |
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All that land has been occupied by this company and none of the crops which are grown on that land are useful as fodder for livestock. |
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But much more fertile land is required to grow food and fodder for their livestock. |
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This is a film about rivers, mountains, and the folds in the land that can support following and hiding. |
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It was like had he walked into an invisible force field and been hurled backwards to land flat on his back. |
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Often, for surrounded troops, the supplies would land among the enemy forces. |
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The interim order also forbids him from lighting fires on any land except for land that he legally owns by way of a title deed. |
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The United States also managed to gain three million acres of Delaware and Potawatomi land in Indiana through the Treaty of Fort Wayne. |
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The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. |
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They can be seen as potential development land by philistines who only see land as money waiting to happen. |
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Mr Parlon said many of these farmers opt to rent their land through the short-term eleven-month conacre system. |
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By June, we had the land cleared and the concrete footings and block walls done. |
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Maps have also issued under separate cover to some 24,000 farmers who made changes to their land parcels. |
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The land was barren, with only a few gnarled shrubs and trees to offer little cover, but there was no one in sight. |
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It is estimated that up to 1,200 people have land on the road's route, which covers an area of around 800 acres. |
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Many landowners require that pilots flying on their land be covered by liability insurance. |
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The trustees' decision in 1760 to feu land to the town council, however, opened old wounds and was no formality. |
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This distinction can be traced back to the land tenure system of feudal times. |
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The right to teach at the universities was often granted like a title of land in the feudal system. |
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He also deported the entire Ingush population and gave their land to Ossetians. |
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None of the inhabitants owns any land on the islands and the houses in which they live are the property of the owners. |
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He therefore proposed that the land and all wealth from it should be held communally by the inhabitants of each parish. |
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The few people who do go shooting on this land only get what is needed for the pot. |
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The land that he bought from the great house is very fruitful, yielding more harvest than his own land. |
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Access to agricultural land for cultivation and capital for undertaking non-farm self-employment is critical. |
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At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead. |
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The best way of improving snaring and trapping practice is by working alongside professional gamekeepers and land managers. |
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As the cat in the title, he magically prances through the land of imagination. |
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Did ancient prahus sail down to the Antarctic seas, searching for a promised land but dying a frozen death? |
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There is not a land shortage, but not all arable land is under cultivation. |
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Twenty years ago the Dalai Lama designated land here for the education of local children. |
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The land is fertile, and sugar, citrus fruit, pineapples, and cotton are grown for export. |
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In its entirety, it would create the largest land turbine development in Europe, extending over five miles in length. |
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The Karnataka Government has inked the land lease and State support agreement thereby paving the way for the project to finally take off. |
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Currently the peaceniks are having a field day howling about American use of land mines, cluster bombs, and depleted uranium shells. |
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Gloria Ferrer is known for its champagne, but in recent years has branched out to develop some of its land for some reserve Pinot Noir. |
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However, an organic dairy farmer who rents land from us has diversified by selling vegetables at farmers' markets. |
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Ancient land rights were innocently signed away by people whose cultures were embedded in their physical environs. |
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Nina innocently calls upon her reality-bending powers with the best of intentions, to help her friend land the guy of her dreams. |
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Every day e-mails containing press releases full of Gallic flair and drama would land in the in-boxes of anyone deemed worthy of receiving them. |
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On Dec.6, hundreds of protestors staged a rally at a wind power plant in the city over land compensation disputes. |
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Plans to build a power line through national forest land near where the tracks were found have raised concerns from conservationists. |
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I noticed that land was only about one hundred yards away, but there was a fierce battle being fought. |
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The land of beer and brats embraced the soft-around-the-center dad bod long before the rest of America discovered it. |
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For the first time in living memory significant amounts of arable land were withdrawn from cultivation. |
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In Thailand, foreign nationals can own a unit in a registered condominium or even a building as distinct from the land it is built on. |
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Beside them one could almost see the shadows of ancient warriors fighting battles, cultivating the land and shaping the society of yesteryear. |
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Insecurity of land tenure militates against long-term conservation of the land resources. |
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Developers overcome this problem by obtaining legally binding easements over the land in cases where they do not own it. |
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He instanced the plight of a young lad who got planning permission for a site on his father's land near Rakestreet but could not get water. |
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Over 70 percent of the farmers cultivating mountain land live on the plains. |
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The grandparents then withdraw to another house on the family estate and cultivate their own land as long as they can. |
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We cannot even cultivate the land for lack of the tools and the seeds to do so. |
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Even in an intensely cultivated land it is possible for agriculture and botanical conservation to go hand in hand. |
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African countries have much cultivatable land and considerable water resources. |
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To make this land cultivable, the productive approach is through watershed development. |
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One reason that public libraries, parks, and land trusts serve the commons is because they are institutionally designed to serve everyone. |
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Krishna had instructed the officials to make use of the land to avoid encroachments. |
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When God asks Abraham to leave the land of his birth He gives the instructions in a curious order. |
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And hopefully, even, we need to use expropriation as an instrument of land reform. |
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However, rights of way are part of a class of rights in land called easements. |
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Under the YPA and Mining Land Use Regulations, placer miners must restore the land and any fish-bearing streams. |
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The land terrain in Cambodia is mostly made up of low lands, flat plains, with mountains in the Southwest and north. |
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I assume our fathers saw these swells of land as flat and grassy plains like prairies. |
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Thus, the mortgage over land is used by banks just as it is employed by building societies and by other financiers. |
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The real culprit is the unchecked fragmentation of land holdings in the rural areas. |
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The 62-acre patch of land is swarming with cement trucks, forklifts, and front-end loaders that lurch forward without warning. |
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The land has 560 metres frontage to the Tullaroan Road and is within 1,250 metres of the city centre. |
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The land will include some frontage to Alresford Road so that access can be improved. |
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The proposal is for a house on the narrow strip of land fronting the A342 Rowde road near the Queen's Head. |
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The Bradford Sunwin House store is available alongside neighbouring land fronting onto Thornton Road known as Southgate. |
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But some of the works have a softer edge, and these still-mysterious iconic works evoke a land of vaudevillian conjuring and a world of wonders. |
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Vestiges of a street plan can sometimes be seen on ploughed land north-east of the amphitheatre. |
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He may make an application for the purpose to the local planning authority specifying the land and describing the use or operations in question. |
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He said the disagreement over the land was a matter for the local Oromia planning authority. |
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A farmer is likely to manage owned land more intensely than rented land, to preserve its productivity for future generations. |
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These innovations permit greater tracks of land to be farmed more intensively by fewer farmers. |
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By prescription one person may acquire rights such as easements and profits over the land of another. |
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The interaction between land and sea is not dealt with very well in any other game of which I know. |
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Building land has also increased in value which has the obvious knock-on effect of pushing up the cost of the finished properties. |
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Other than this, the group intends to promote wise use of the land through the conservation of the natural environment. |
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The ultimate goal is to have all the sections on private land protected by easements sold to the CTA by landowners. |
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Initially, stations were located on the fringes of the urban area to ease access and economize on land costs. |
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In some areas, land clearing and the introduction of cats have caused frilled lizard numbers to decline. |
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The colour of the lizard matches the land on which it lives, so a frilled lizard from one region may be brighter than another. |
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Public agencies and private conservation organizations are cooperating to purchase and manage land and conservation easements. |
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With this in mind, it is believed that a number of consortiums are being organised by development land agents at present. |
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Another potential threat is a cruise missile, or even ICBM, launched from land and targeted at our larger ships at sea by satellites. |
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He calculates rent crudely by taking 4 percent of his estimated land value, for which he gives no source. |
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East Point is Crown land over which his government has full ownership and control. |
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Hunting, fishing and recreational opportunities on Crown land should be ensured for all British Columbians. |
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The market is on Crown land and the original huts were financed with the help of NZAid. |
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A recalcitrant province insists it won't play the odds when deciding how to dispose of Crown land in British Columbia. |
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Section IV takes us off the land and into comets, galaxies and constellations of stars. |
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Tracer rounds ricochet into the sky as rounds land short of the tank platoon. |
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These texts question the nature of landscape and of land itself as constructs of empirical and cultural knowledge. |
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The legislation would have allowed the government to proclaim easements over private land to ensure public access to the beach. |
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Both foreign powers wanted to control an interoceanic transit route, be it by land or via a new Caribbean to Pacific canal. |
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Participating families could interplant agricultural crops on the land until the trees were firmly established. |
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By the time of the inquiry, it was common ground that the site had not been Crown land when the development had been carried out. |
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The site was Crown land and held in the name of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police Division. |
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The reading rooms were built by public subscription and the church hall by church subscription on Crown land donated by Queen Victoria. |
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For more than half a century, the land that the Bozemen Trail would cross was made busy by Crows and white trappers and traders, not by Lakotas. |
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Living in a land of religious freedom, it is easy to take for granted the blessing of being able to worship freely and openly. |
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Instead of facing a firing squad, however, they were abandoned in no man's land so that they would be killed by crossfire. |
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The primary purpose of the serviced land initiative is to free up land for development. |
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A 1970s shopping mall in the middle of the estate could also be flattened to free up more land for homes. |
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This premium is free of income tax and the level of the premium depends on the type of land planted and the species of tree grown. |
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These do not actually include a power which would have enabled the council to go upon the land of British Rail and remove the bank of earth. |
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Here was land where nothing grew, not even a blade of grass, and no birds or any other sign of life interrupted the forbidding vistas. |
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Each called for the periodic restoration of land which had been pledged as security and forfeited for unpaid debt. |
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Sea levels rose, covering the continental shelves and land bridges, splitting up and isolating populations and individual species. |
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Regardless of the words, it seems the melodic contour of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes. |
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It is not surprising then that landlord domination of the land rental market has resulted in stringent tenancy contracts. |
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In your case, it would be a waste of time to sue because a contract for the sale of land has to be in writing to be valid. |
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The builders were contracted by Westlea Housing Association to build five houses on land behind Ashe Crescent. |
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Camp Henry contracted a wildlife biologist to study the property and create a land stewardship plan. |
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Only one in five elite Marylanders contracted debts during their lifetimes that forced the selling of land or slaves. |
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In the centre of the patch of common land there were a stocks, a gallows and a tall gaily coloured pole from which dangled multicoloured strands. |
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The legislation, which follows an EU directive, requires sheep farmers to earmark or tattoo every sheep on their land with their place of birth. |
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Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one. |
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It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me. |
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Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows. |
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The land was earmarked by the council for employment use but the developer applied to build flats there and won the right to do so on appeal. |
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Inspite of Shamu's repeated reminders that the land is not ploughable due to heavy rocks, she persists. |
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In fact, a sizeable number was left behind, including the poorest inhabitants of the land such as vinedressers, ploughmen, and artisans. |
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Cuper knows he will land a plum job, one with near unlimited funds, where winning silverware will be comparatively simple. |
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Continuing uncertainty about the area's future meant land values had plummeted. |
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He spoke to officials from Tesco, which has earmarked the land for development, about making it more secure. |
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The men who got these parcels of land would have been barons, earls and dukes. |
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While Hold That Tiger will almost certainly start favourite, Audience will be the best each-way bet and could land the big prize at a tidy price. |
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Some maps also included information about how fast the flow of water might be over land or how long the inundation might last. |
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Once the demand for oil is replaced by a demand for another commodity, the current land value of Saudi Arabia may plunge to nearly zero. |
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In the ensuing recession both the stock market and land values plunged to alarmingly low levels, unseen in many years. |
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The land and its colours, moods, and furies possess the people of Charleville in South West Queensland. |
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He was in charge of intelligence for coalition land forces during the invasion last year. |
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By comparison, Canada harvests the furs of about 1 million wild animals each year, from a land mass three times as large. |
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Vertebrate and invertebrate animals, land plants, and protists are all represented as fossils in the Solnhofen Limestone. |
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It is a big challenge to protect trees when land is poached for development and trees are cut. |
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As well grazing land was being damaged by poaching because of the very wet conditions. |
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Presently the authorised planning use of the land is one dwelling house with residential curtilage. |
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We have already explained in very general terms what electronic conveyancing means and why it would improve the process of land registration. |
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She donned a flak jacket and helmet to learn how de-miners use metal detectors to make land safe. |
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The best he could hope for was to land in a lake or that the pod wouldn't break up as badly as most. |
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He is currently trying to design and build a vehicle to land on the surface of the planet Mercury. |
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In the land of oil there is no electricity, no gasoline, no cooking gas and no petrol. |
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The earlier interest in voluntary associational schemes, such as land settlement communes and cooperative enterprises, lapsed. |
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The land was once used by local Mexican farmers as public-owned cooperative farms. |
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According to the current legislation, neither cooperative farms nor leaseholders can use the land as a guarantee for a loan. |
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At independence, the government set up cooperative farms and made some attempt to redistribute land under a socialist model. |
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It anticipates the screams of frustration up and down the land of men wrestling with identical flat-pack furniture. |
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Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey. |
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In the northern hemisphere the polar region is an ocean basin which is almost completely enclosed by surrounding major land masses. |
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Environmentalists prefer flat-rate payments per area of land cultivated to reduce incentives to increase production. |
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A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage. |
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It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder. |
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The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas. |
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He is not a land artist, he flattens no grass and makes no patterns with twigs or boulders. |
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This was built so that the first barges when not being poled along the navigation by the crews, could be pulled from land by horses. |
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Then solid land surfaced and from the top deck Langley could see the port of the only known town in the southern pole. |
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If there was ever a strip of land closest to the North Pole, then this place would have been it. |
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The land is currently used for turf cutting and for the commercial storage of caravans. |
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At least 60 others reportedly returned title deeds for land acquired irregularly. |
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In the case of the Lincoln copper beech, experts believe the main tree died from changes in local land conditions. |
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The original characteristics of a piece of land may have been irretrievably altered over time by manifold human activities. |
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He hopes to use the existing entrance to the land which is currently agricultural. |
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It is hoped that up to 148 acres of land will eventually be developed as fuel-efficient coppice over a six-year period. |
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Some full-blooded Creeks still farm land in the area of Oklahoma that was settled by the Upper Creeks. |
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This canal will nurture 2,135 acres of irrigable land and create another 300 acres of irrigable land. |
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There is ample land available at the eastern end to cater for a proper island and traffic calming zone. |
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The capable Adrienne Foley gave Dellsboy a copybook drive to land the Walsh Engineering Ladies Handicap. |
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A naval and a land attack was made upon the Islesmen, and they for a time were quelled. |
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Broadly, over half of English tenants held their land by copyhold, that is by customary tenures involving low rents. |
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After all these conditions are fulfilled, all back taxes on the land must be paid. |
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It leaves you in limbo, in a dreadful no-man's land that is fraught with danger. |
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She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed. |
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A long time ago, in a castle near Innsbruck, lived the owner of lots of land with the name of Frau Hitt. |
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All along the front line soldiers walked spontaneously into no-man's land to fraternise with the enemy. |
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Tillage farmers are facing crucial decisions on the amount of land they should crop under the new tillage policy. |
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Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping. |
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The land in question is the former isolation hospital in Main Road, Dovercourt. |
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Virtually all land is double cropped, and many farmers cultivate three or four crops a year. |
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The autopilot can fly an airplane once in the air, and land it, but it cannot be used during takeoff. |
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Farmers can use some parts of their land to grow crops and use other parts as recreation sites. |
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One tier is land with crofts or tenants and the other land without, for which there is extra demand. |
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Farmers live on crofts, a term that refers both to their land and their family home. |
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There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations. |
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The best way to cross the isthmus by land is to ride the historic Panama Canal Railway from Panama City to Colon. |
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The figure grunted, and flipped over to land on his feet in one fluid movement. |
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No other land sale in Scotland has relied on a charter of such antiquity for its sale. |
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People on fracked land have toxic water, their soil is toxic, the air is toxic. |
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However, the only available land was the space used for coach parking to the south and adjacent to the theatre's entrance and foyers. |
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The fox hunt will have blocked these escape routes, forcing the fox to flee across land and thus provide a chase for the hunt. |
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Their chief predator is the mink, but while on land they also fall prey to foxes, coyotes and lynx as well as some of the larger avian predators. |
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So followers of the affect of the draw were hoping for a horse drawn low to land the big race itself. |
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Some few years ago now the Anglican Church returned the land to the local iwi. |
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The first flight with floats took place on 8 August and switching from land gear to floats was a relatively simple process. |
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Babylon's aggression is portrayed as a hot wind that will blow across Judah, rendering fruitful land barren and laying waste to cities. |
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The aircraft could be fitted with either land gear or floats and featured manually folding wings. |
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As he ponders the next option in his club career, it is just possible that a few proverbs from his native land are springing to mind once again. |
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The rolling green pastures were now dust, plumes of brown and yellow swirling over a land which was once so rich and fruitful. |
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The group spends much of the winter preparing the land for the summer when birds will flock to the reserve to breed. |
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The receding of the water from the dry land after the flood sounds like the second and third days of Creation. |
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By following the contour lines on an Ordnance Survey map it is clear that the vast majority of the land area is above the flood plain. |
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When crops are growing in the fields, the manure is composted and applied to the land later. |
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At the outset of war in 1939, Mary had the choice of working in the land army or at a shipping yard in the brass foundry. |
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The system is bureaucratic, distorts land use and fossilises the countryside and businesses. |
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The laborers effectively replant and rebuild their plots of land or pigsties. |
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It is a land of ghosts and creepy discarded toys, if you're brave enough to look. |
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To the east, the Eden valley provides a fertile contrast, with abundant pasture land along the valley floor. |
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These programs gave the network its cultural cred while helping the channel land in a demographic sweet spot. |
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It was rather fortuitous then, to have the Prime Minister himself underline the need for a more direct and reliable land route. |
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The land areas and rivers named before the Flood do not correspond to similarly named features after the Flood. |
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We can ride anywhere on open Crown land and on tracks through the woodland. |
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The land between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming, offers a crazy quilt of textures and colors. |
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One group of extinct crossopterygians, known as the rhipidistians, are the group thought by most to be the ones that successfully invaded land and gave rise to amphibians. |
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There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance. |
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A move by Mayo County council to compulsorily acquire the necessary land on the island has run into difficulty and is currently before the High Court. |
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An annually changing proportion of pasture and arable land is leased out each year, usually for an eleven-month period, in a traditional system known as conacre. |
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First, the original monopoly power inhered in land ownership. |
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On the other hand, they were resolutely opposed to government-issued paper money, fiat money, legal tender laws, inconvertible paper currency, and land banks. |
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In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the dance of life, an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. |
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He practices his speech on moral fibre that should land him a scholarship to a prestigious university, while darting envious glances at his partying schoolmates. |
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But Afghanistan is a hard land and the simple fact remains that those fighting for control of power rarely, if ever, bother about the suffering of innocent civilians. |
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In Arizona, the jaguar's gradual decline was concurrent with predator control associated with the settlement of land and the development of cattle industry. |
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The condensate was collected and spread on the land belonging to a farm. |
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They rid the land of the demons and fiends with swordplay and magic. |
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He is a farmer, fiercely loyal to the land that provides his livelihood. |
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If the dry land is inseparable from the wet, then the East Coast is where the government's new foreshore and seabed law is going to hurt most, like a bomb in a crowded room. |
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The land is mostly peat on a bed of sand, which filters the water. |
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The body is usually interred on ancestral land or in the church cemetery. |
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The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield, in front of a crowd of around 70 people. |
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This will mean that the nine separate land transport programmes for Auckland will be consolidated into just two for the authority and Transit New Zealand. |
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The building itself allows little space for amenity land for the children to play in, and the style of construction is totally out of character for the area. |
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It can crash through the armour of a modern tank and it poisons land and contaminates water supplies for years causing cancers and genetic defects. |
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The authority is concerned that land is being ploughed in order to prevent access to ramblers who will soon be granted far greater freedoms under coming legislation. |
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The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter. |
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A worrying factor will be the availability of straw this autumn as balers cannot get on to land and farmers may be forced to chop and plough it back. |
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You've crawled into bed, snuggled under the duvet, plumped up the pillows, made yourself as comfortable as possible and can feel yourself drifting away into the land of nod. |
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Is there not a social and political willingness to know and teach about Inuktitut and Inuit culture in a land where 85 per cent of the population are Inuit? |
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This is particularly important in low-lying countries such as Bangladesh, where a one-metre rise in sea level would inundate half of the country's rice land with saltwater. |
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Government embarked in 2000 on land reforms which saw veterans of the liberation war along with pro-government supporters invading white-owned farms. |
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Zimbabwe is set to enter a devastating famine because of land invasions and the occupancy of once highly productive commercial farms by so-called war veterans. |
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On the land side, a generous flagged quay runs around a sheltered harbor. |
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The Ancient ones slowly became bored of our land and slowly faded away, becoming more inward and secretive, within years they were all but legend. |
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Gowda again alleged irregularities in work tendering and land acquisition. |
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In an attempt to use land not needed for food production, local farmers have been encouraged to plant willow coppices to be cut for chippings for a power station near Selby. |
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Woodland was no longer coppiced on the same scale to produce charcoal for fuel or timber for construction, so that land could be released for food. |
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These are the documents which detailed the surrender of the use of the land to Robert Pepys as copyholder and the terms on which it was so surrendered. |
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Biography fleshes out the daily realities of living as aliens in your own land and provides insight into indigenous history over the entire 20th century. |
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The planes could be equipped with either wheels or floats for both land and water landings, but only by replacing one type of gear with the other. |
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Huge flocks of sheep and goats in the northwest are stripping the land of its protective vegetation, creating a dust bowl on a scale not seen before. |
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But some opposition councillors have expressed concern the land may be part of the flood plain of the River Brain, which runs along the rear of Spring Lodge. |
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He said the land was not suitable for building, being so close to the floodplain, and said the area regularly became waterlogged and that floodwater came up to his house. |
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In fact, the only things he was sure of was that he was far south of Sindark, floundering about in an unknown land where every hand was potentially hostile. |
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Combining forces with the Cossacks, who feared the loss of their land and privileges, army officers formed the White Army to engage in a war against Trotsky's Red Army. |
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Many Indian and Arab traders chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way. |
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In this process, we keep the animals in some portion of the land for some time then shift them into another portion until the whole field gets fertilized. |
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These changes provoked the anger of William Cobbett, who wished to return to a golden age when England was still a land of prosperous yeomen farmers and contented cottagers. |
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Go up into the north and see the cotters living on poorer and poorer than their fathers had been, crowded down and driven off good land on to poor land. |
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On the other side, a flurry of diplomatic activity between Russia and China in recent months continues to draw the giant powers of the Eurasian land mass closer. |
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After a beautiful fly-by at Monroe Airport and a silky smooth final touch and go at Barksdale, it was time to land and taxi back to the 93rd Bomb Squadron area. |
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I was going to have to do my best, trying to land a fly-by-wire aircraft onboard an aircraft carrier in bad weather, with the jet still in autopilot. |
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In some regions, one often came across innocent women branded as witches and lynched by villagers who wanted to possess the land and property belonging to the victims. |
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