Sentences with phrase «cheated out of some land»

This rapacious development of pristine areas of Hawaii is a particularly cruel situation for the residents who are of native Hawaiian descent — because the original missionary families and other early Caucasian settlers basically stole or cheated them out of their land.

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The people who cheated the native Americans out of their homes and land and herded them onto reservations were mostly Christians.

It is true that it was predominantly Christians who came to this land uninvited and then cheated the local people out of their land.

It was mostly Christians who came here uninvited and then cheated the natives out of their land.

In the 800's, before & after, they would cheat peasants out of all they could... for money, land and properties.

Speaking to ITV News, Mr Cable said: «There are some nasty scams out there, we've had them around wine shops and land banks... a lot of people have been cheated out of a lot of money».

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

Lee Marvin is Walker, an angry ex-con who has been betrayed by his wife and best friend and cheated out of the heist money that landed him in prison.

The major fallout from the pipeline deal was the trifecta of corruption, poor government oversight and crime that cheated villagers out of their share of BP's land compensation payments.