Sentences with phrase «forced land acquisitions»

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Eagle Ford Shale - focused Sanchez Energy (NYSE: SN) recently joined forces with a leading private - equity fund to spend $ 2.3 billion on the acquisition of more land in the play.

Accordingly the book of Joshua, while here and there acknowledging a slow, long - sustained process of occupation - acquisition, understandably emphasizes a total and utterly decisive conquest of the entire land by force of arms.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 2012, for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force, as specified in the funding table in section 4601.

In summary, if a territory is acquired through occupation of uninhabited land then, so long as it is applicable to the colony, English law is in force, while in the case of acquisition through treaty or conquest, the «ancient» laws remain until they are changed.