Sentences with phrase «ideas such as land»

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

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Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

Council President Darius Pridgen discussed some potential ideas such as selling land where people don't live, bringing on units without displacing or taking away opportunities from those with low - income, and he even proposed the idea of community centers doubling as housing.

«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.

«On the one hand, there was this idea that the third eye was simply reduced independently in many different vertebrate groups such as mammals and birds and is retained only in lizards among fully land - dwelling vertebrates,» says Krister Smith at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

Thomas's team visited other schools and landed on the idea of a structured program to help freshmen understand key concepts such as identity, motivation, work balance, healthy relationships, and more.

In contrast, stocks are claims on real assets, such as land, factories and equipment, as well as the ideas, patents and all other capital that generate corporate profits and appreciate over time with the general level of prices.

Some ideas were played with and never used, such as base building and land vehicles, but these were dropped from the release game — the temptation to feature creep and wanting to encourage players to explore being cited as justification.

This comprehensive exhibition includes more than 270 objects — furniture, drawings, household objects, textiles, baskets and kitchen implements — and will provide insight into this intriguing religious group that valued many ideas that resonate today such as equality, pacifism, community, sustainability, responsible land stewardship, innovation, simplicity, and quality in work.

This undeveloped plot with a surface area of 26 hectares is the largest piece of available empty land in Venice, which has made it the subject of countless speculation initiatives, such as the controversial idea of digging a railway tunnel under the lagoon to link the city with its airport, with a station located in this area.

Additionally the exhibition looks beyond those very literal intersections and implicates larger ideas about contact such as our engagement with the land and environment, our communities» alignment with one another, and more broadly the implications of contact such as the discovery of the New World, and space exploration.

The exhibition associates this idea of «offshore art» with past developments in Land Performance and Conceptual Art of the 1960s and 70s — a time when artists moved the creative process beyond the studio — and forms new dialogues with contemporary artists whose processes continue the interdisciplinary and site - specific practices that began with pioneers such as Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson.

Mr. Clinton acknowledged that such an idea was unlikely to win favor among environmentalists, who see little justice in turning land to crop elsewhere, as Mac Margolis noted for Newsweek last year:

I love the idea of sustainable living — living in the foothills of the Smokies offer many lovely parcels of land and the thought of living among like minded folks greatly appeals to myself and my husband but unsure as if there is such a group that does indeed exist here.

Dew says that one of the Moorish tenets — the idea that African Americans lived in the U.S. long before the arrival of Europeans — is now being used, however, «to justify the assertion that land instruments such as mortgages are not valid and that local laws do not have to be obeyed.»

This doesn't in any way suggest that IOTA will land genuine partnerships in the future, but having such brand names involved as demo participants is a major step forward for such a unique idea.

The establishment of Indigenous governance structures is not a new idea, and varying degrees of Indigenous autonomy already exist through structures such as ATSIC, land councils, native title representative bodies (and emerging prescribed bodies corporate) and community - controlled organisations.