Sentences with phrase «land grab for»

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

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

The 2008 Land Grab for Food and Financial Security (Barcelona: October 2008); Joachim von Braun and Ruth Meinzen - Dick, «Land Grabbing» by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries, Policy Brief No. 13 (Washington, DC: IFPRI, April 2009); Klaus Deininger and Derek Byerlee, Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

With this and the recent announcement that the Oculus Rift VR headset would be shipping with an Xbox One controller (together with the ability to play Xbox One games streamed via PC), it seems Microsoft is making a land grab for both the VR and AR sectors, while competitor Sony concentrates on its own virtual reality technology project, Morpheus.

He used the war with France as an excuse, but, in reality, it was really a land grab for of the most fertile soil in the province.

Meanwhile, German companies remain (understandably) focused on a continued land grab for cheap property — but when they eventually re-focus on FFO, tax efficiency & dividends, it may well usher in a fresh revaluation phase.

Just looking at the numbers could be deceptive... Also, I do not see «a continued land grab for cheap property».

Yes, see my comment above: «Meanwhile, German companies remain (understandably) focused on a continued land grab for cheap property...» German (residential) property companies are not a dividend story right now — but I believe their strategy of conserving cash to bulk up their portfolios is definitely the right strategy at this point.

If the e-reading platform wars do turn out to be a land grab for a mature, low growth market, publishers will find themselves at a major disadvantage as businesses.

If your colleagues think you might steal their thunder and credit, try a land grab for their area or projects, or misspeak on their behalf, they're not going to take any chances.

A new report exposes the devastating consequences of land grabs for indigenous communities in Preah Vihear province, in northern Cambodia.

Not exact matches

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

Despite claiming on multiple occasions that it believes the land grab is over and that it is time to enter «manufacturing mode,» CHK continues to outspend peers for leaseholds.

From utilitarian processes to the final appearance of designed objects ranging from jewelry to spare machine parts, get ready for a patent land grab of 3 - D intellectual property.

not to mention the ongoing land grab and the attendant turmoil and upheaval in the Middle East because of the Chosen People belief, that's all for nothing / a misconception too?

A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

Durant dove for a ball near the scorer's table and landed awkwardly on his wrist, immediately grabbing it while in obvious discomfort.

Still, signing Kournikova is a coup for Advantage, which not only grabbed a property of seemingly boundless potential as a player and endorser but also landed a package deal: When, on Aug. 10, she told IMG of her decision to bolt, Fedorov did likewise, and is also now with Advantage.

In Massachusetts, about 25 percent of land is protected and 22 percent is developed, which means the other 53 percent is still up for grabs or will be at some point in the future.

A group of Cary residents, incensed by what they call a land grab by neighboring Lake in the Hills, say they will ask the Cary Park District to condemn property for a park to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit.

At the time, the congresswoman was not shy about saying she felt Kaloyeros was overstepping his bounds and making a power grab on a project she worked hard to land for her constituents.

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.

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.

Is it also true, all members in Kwabena Boateng Aidoo entourage to Dubai were each rewarded with brand new V8 Land cruisers, with the ace broadcaster allegedly, grabbing an extra brand new luxurious saloon car for his wife?

That's a problem, considering that most of us who click on an ad only stay the landing page for a few seconds unless it really grabs us (on that note, I'd be very interested to see the analytics on how many people hit the page, how many start the video, and how long the average «view» is).

Meanwhile, back at Rancho Notorious, Charles Gargano and his quasi-public crew rev bulldozers for eminent domain land grabs and plot to shoot craps in endless casinos.

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.

Ten open seats on the City Council will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will take over.

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.

«To see the Methodist Church falling into line behind the Church of England in seeing the latest reforms as an opportunity for a land - grab within the state - funded system marks their further decline as a force for reform and dissent within England.

That rapid rate of consciousness - raising about the issue is largely attributable to a Pennsylvanian who, seven years ago, got curious enough to grab a camera and do some low - budget independent research when a gas company offered his family $ 100,000 for the right to drill under their land.

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.

Such land deals are often derisively dubbed «land grabbing,» which D'Odorico defines as a deal for about 500 acres or more that converts an environmentally important area currently used by local people to commercial production.

Jennifer Franco, a researcher at the Transnational Institute, an international think tank in the Netherlands that advocates for social justice, said land grabbing has been going on for a long time and some of the increase is due to more awareness and reporting of it.

According to Wilson, Darwin told his contemporaries «that their land - grabs in Africa, their hunger for stock - market wealth in the face of widespread urban poverty, their rigid class system and their everlasting wars were not things to be ashamed of, but actually part of the processes of nature».

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.

Tim points out that 50 % of independent farmers are set to retire in the next 10 years and that much of this farm land will be up for grabs.

TCM is out for a land - grab of new users.

Cattle baron Clay Matthews is covertly masterminding stampedes of herds, hiring gunslingers for attacks on ranchers, cutting fences, grabbing lands - all part of a plan to establish a National Cattle Trail capable of handling a million - cattle drive from Texas to Canada.

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

Awards season just started, but considering that La La Land is already grabbing tons of little statues and plaques, it seems like the movie industry could be readying itself for a musical renaissance of sorts.

Other deals included The Orchard and MoviePass picking up the ripped - from - real - life crime story «American Animals» for North America; Saban landing Chloë Sevigny's bloody turn as Lizzie Borden in «Lizzie»; and studio Gunpowder & Sky grabbing Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons» quirky «Hearts Beat Loud.»

His goofier bits landed well, though his little parade of movie stars surprising moviegoers across the street was a bit too chaotic for viewers at home to really grab onto.

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Land grabbing is a huge issue in Cambodia and the international delegation met a number of women and families whose homes were destroyed to make way for corporate developments.

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«While the status quo tried to paint this as a charter school land grab, it has proven to be a long overdue dose of transparency for Arkansas's school districts and their stewardship of the public's resources,» Newton said.

Driver said the district had its own plan for improving outcomes and said the legislation felt like a «land grab.»

So we thought, with Land Rover about to fit a new 4.4 litre diesel lump to the Range Rover, it would be interesting to grab one of the last of the 3.6 litre TDV8s for a week to see just how good it's become in its final iteration with the Ford sourced V8 diesel, which has been with us in the Range Rover since 2006.

For downhill runs there is a Ford version of Land Rover's push - button Hill Descent Control, which grabs individual disc brakes to ease you down the steepest slopes.