Sentences with phrase «land claimed by»

The Select Committee also stated that it believed that land claimed by the Aboriginal community should be assessed against certain criteria.

That all changed, however, when the Haida Nation of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands — known across Canada for its colourful totem poles carved from red cedar — took issue with a tree - farming licence the provincial government had issued to lumber - giant Weyerhaeuser Co., allowing it to log on land claimed by the Haida more than a century earlier.

The Tsilhqot» in case arose out of the BC government granting a commercial logging licence on land claimed by Tsilhqot» in Nation.

Israel doesn't include land claimed by Palestinians - it's entirely in land claimed by them.

Not exact matches

Lila Chavez, the passenger who filed the lawsuit, claimed she has suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and other personal injuries in the days after the flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia, according the the lawsuit detailed by NPR.

People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.

Alutiiq is a subsidiary of the Afognak Native Corporation, which is in turn owned by about 700 Alaskan Natives from the Kodiak Island archipelago, the product of a settlement with Washington over land claims.

It urged avoidance of deals that are managed by a paid promoter, involve land acquired within the past 36 months, and claim deductions of more than 2.5 times the property's acquisition cost.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut off ties to Qatar by land, water, and air in a tightly coordinated move, claiming that it was backing terrorist activity in the region.

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

Investors know that the name of the game is capital gains, but the prospects for favorable tax treatment are enhanced by claiming that it is the buildings — that is, depreciable capital — that rise in price, not the land's site value.

By then the fire had claimed nearly 600,000 hectares of land including people's homes and livelihoods.»

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

By your words you could decide to become Jewish and you would have claim to the land any body could and any one did, God did not give the land to these Europeans.

it's no more speical than any other state in the world, it's just a clump of dirt that has been claimed by people that america dumped there after WW2; so i would say the palestinians have a right to upset that their land was invaded.

The land was, Historically speaking, not claimed by anyone, and they took it... and when the Romans conquered Israel, they kicked them out, and later, the Arabs came in.

This argument presents a challenge to the theological claim by both the settler movement and Christian Zionists that God gave this land to the Jews and thus the Jews have the sole right and authority to determine its status.

«There is a distinct difference between claiming that the genocide of the Native Americans was religiously - based and suggesting that the theft of their lands and their being forced onto reservations was accomplished by people who happened to be Christians.»

It is Professor Arkes» larger claims for a natural law constitutional jurisprudence — claims advanced by Professor Hittinger and Mr. Ball as well — that, it seems to me, land the whole enterprise in trouble.

Whereas Burge assumes that God gave Israel its «tenant» status in the land, Ellis sees such an «ontological» claim as the very thing that must be given up by all sides — Jew, Muslim and Christian — if what is valid and enduring in these traditions is to be recovered.

Accordingly, believers can not claim an automatic right to be exempted by their beliefs from the laws of the land.»

All the land was already claimed by one indian group or another.

Because it was hijacked by impostors who stole the faith and the land and claimed it as their own starting in 1947.

For centuries they have committed crimes with impunity, they refuse to abide by the laws of the land claiming diplomatic immunity or sovereignty.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

Often they found the way barred by the elders of the village who claimed that the village was too poor or its land too scarce to support the urban refugees.

Just as Jeroboam claimed: «Behold your gods... who brought you up out of the land of Israel,» because it was the true God he wanted to worship, so Ahaz keeps up appearances, observing all the ordinances laid down by Yahweh.

However, I stand by the claim that this chocolate's aroma reminded me of the land after heavy rain — that delicious, fresh, clean, wholesome smell of wet earth (which we've been sorely missing here in Australia, what with the drought that's seemingly been going on half my life).

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

While United are by no means guaranteed to win the race for Griezmann's signature, today's claims by Don Balon will surely put them in a strong position to finally land one of their long - term targets.

It's claimed by the Sun though that if Chelsea want to land Immobile's signature, they'll have to splash out # 53m to «convince Lazio president Claudio Lotito to sell», although they could put an offer on the table that involves players in exchange rather than parting with the full # 53m.

However, it is now claimed by The Sun that the former Chelsea boss is closer than ever to landing his preferred job after making it clear that he intends on returning to top - level management this summer.

4th place and or win win the FA cup by beating Chelsea and the Arsenal leadership will claim Arsenal is now the «best team in the land».

Manchester City have been favourites to land the Chilean international all summer, and the latest claim is that Raheem Sterling has been offered as part of the deal to bring him to the Etihad although that has now been discounted by SkySports.

Ndidi has already been linked with Liverpool over past few weeks and now The Sun claims as quoted by The Mirror that Arsenal are keeping close tabs on the player and keen on landing the midfielder from Leicester this summer.

They further claim that Liverpool were willing to sell Coutinho over the summer but that Barcelona weren't willing to meet the English club's unreasonable asking price — continuing a lie established by the Barcelona board to absolve themselves of any blame for failing to land Coutinho.

It was really sloppy defending by Tottenham, and Hugo Lloris was caught in no - man's land as he came to claim a ball he had no hope of getting.

The 16 - year - old - who picked up her GCSE results the day she landed back in the UK - continued British gymnastics remarkable run by claiming a shock bronze in the floor final.

Media reports yet to be dispelled by the administration had claimed that the government was afraid to confront the powerful beneficiaries of the scam which had landed other suspects in the United States, Germany and others in jail.

They claimed Obama used land guards to intimidate party members and created divisions in the party, allegations which were rejected by Obama's supporters, leading to the confusion.

This process was slightly marred by corruption, which allowed some wealthy and connected people to inflate their claims of land ownership.

From what was, at times, a confused and halting justification for this position your correspondent gleaned three interrelated strands of argument: that the lands of Judea and Samaria are the Jewish people's «homeland;» that while the area is also claimed as a homeland by the Palestinians this merely means the territory is contested and does not detract from the Jewish claim and finally; that the Palestinians lost their right to this land by engaging in violence in 1948 and 1967.

To this day, there remains little consensus on the moral and ethical means by which states may lay claim to land or peoples may deem land their homeland.

Sensing that this assertion carried little moral weight, Dayan then argued that while Israel was willing to accept partition in 1948, and at that time accepted the Palestinian's moral claim to some of the land, the Palestinians then lost this claim by engaging in violence.

At the time, law enforcement claimed that they were breaking the law by selling cigarette's tax free to non-Indian customers, because the US Supreme Court ruled that Indian Nations couldn't claim sovereignty over land they purchased.

In all practical likelihood, these claims have had no affect since the 1961 Antarctica Treaty which was signed by each of the nations claiming rights to land in Antarctica.

This Afghan policy was very much influenced by «Pashtunistanism,» driven by idealistic and principled causes (i.e. supporting Pashtuns and Balochs» right to self - determination, not recognizing the Durand line, and most of all continuing to claim as Afghan land territory lost in the 1893 Durand agreement, parts of today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan).

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

The larger portion of the Oneida claim, to the 6 - million - acre (24,000 km2) tract, was rejected by the Second Circuit in 1988 on the grounds that the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 had neither the authority nor the intent to limit the acquisition of Indian lands within the borders of US states.

City leaders Wednesday condemned a last - minute attempt by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to claim the right to redevelop the neighborhood around Penn Station without having to conduct environmental reviews or abide by local land use laws.