Sentences with phrase «grab land around»

It was unclear Thursday evening whether a last - minute proposal by Cuomo to give the state power to grab land around Penn Station for development would be in the final budget.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is pushing a late plan to be included in the state budget that would potentially allow the state to grab land around Penn Station for development.

Cuomo is pushing a late plan to be included in the state budget that would potentially allow the state to grab land around Penn Station for development.

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This month, in a new report, GRAIN found that investment in foreign land holdings, purchases that the group calls «land grabs,» remains prevalent around the world.

And what if new forms of mass occupations develop — around corporate «land grabs» for example — where thousands of poor people stay in protracted protest and a political standoff without sufficient health care and food.

It is probing reports that land - grabbing is taking place in many developing countries around the world for the development of biofuel plantations and that human rights are being breached as a result.

At least two - thirds of this is rain falling onto the grabbed land, but the rest is extracted from rivers or aquifers for irrigation — around 5 per cent of total global extractions for irrigation.

The 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque has been grabbing attention around the world ever since it was first unveiled earlier this year.

Driven by both cashed up foreigners and Indonesian investors, land prices and land grabs alike have soared but precious little of the cash sloshing around is trickling down to address such pesky issues as road repairs and other infrastructure work.

Standard enemies trudge around, flying squids and ghosts wait to push you off precarious perches at all the wrong moments, forcing you to take to the air and trusting that you'll land again, or at least grab a ledge.

This will be a huge land grab for Twitch users — and there won't be enough of the old names to go around.