Sentences with phrase «land grabbing from»

So we as residents and taxpayers of Queens County are to accept another land grab from us to a major corporation.

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Fox's Snatched, starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn as a mother and daughter grabbed $ 17.5 million from 3,501 theaters, landing it in second overall.

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Without a body to call its «government» — the Lebanon war reduced the Palestine Liberation Organization from a leadership entity to a merely symbolic force — the Palestinians are deprived of any real hope that the land grab by Israel will be halted.

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

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.

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

You need a LOT of help from Dem «friends» all across this great land — to grab the brass ring of the presidency.

This bloc led to the election of many Kiryas Joel - backed local officials, prompting a number of lawsuits from Monroe residents regarding the group's land - grab attempts.

From Midwest «missionaries» to Wall Street speculators, investors are grabbing massive swathes of common land, says Fred Pearce, especially in Africa

But two cave roosting bats from the Americas come in vertically than [yaw hard] right or left into a cart wheel and grab the landing pad with just the back legs.

«That's probably the biggest problem — people could have gathered timber from the woods or lived downstream of the land grabbed,» Wolford said.

I have flown over hundreds of kilometres of tribal lands in northern Paraguay acquired by Brazilian ranchers but absent from land - grabbing databases.

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.

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.

I guess he has a poor grasp of history and have forgotten everything from the Texas land grab to NAFTA to be so nice to the gringos.

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.»

Just this week, a brief was filed at the International Criminal Court noting that over the past 14 years some 770,000 people have been adversely affected by land grabs in the country and nearly 150,000 forcibly transferred from the capital.

Abstract: I recently returned from an international solidarity mission to Cambodia, where so many of the issues that progressive rights - based civil society origanisations campaign on slap you right in the face: Land grabs: -LSB-...]

We saw big reveals from Audi, Mercedes, Land Rover and more, and while we sit back and grab a drink, you should pore over all of the world...

And while the Model S is, in fact, a P100D known to successfully grab some big - name muscle cars by the collar and show them who's who, it faces stiff competition from Germany, the land of the Autobahn and its speed limit - free sections.

So far, the main threat comes from the BMW X5, Audi Q7 and Mercedes - Benz GLE - yes, again, the Germans - but the likes of Land Rover Discovery and Acura MDX (in the US) won't just sit and watch how Volvo tries to grab a piece of the pie.

We've grabbed the details from Land Rover in Germany and we've had nothing from Land Rover in the UK.

She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20 books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into successful outcomes for their authors.

-- Digital Land grab: Publishing has a chance to partner with (or poach personnel from) other industries to create great digital products.

Dining Grab a bite from a snack bar / deli serving guests of Wyndham Koloa Landing at Poipu Beach.

Grab a hand line and land a prized barramundi, the prince of freshwater catches, just 30 minutes from Proserpine at Peter Faust Dam.

Subscriptions, lockboxes, non-instanced land grabs, and server merges make for the perfect storm for keeping me away from a game.

Using this strange apparatus, players can grab onto foes and throw themselves into the air to land blows from above, as well as execute evasive attacks to slam Oni into the ground.

As Egypt tries to fashion a functioning democracy after President Hosni Mubarak's departure, land grabs to the south are threatening its ability to put bread on the table because all of Egypt's grain is either imported or produced with water from the Nile River, which flows north through Ethiopia and Sudan before reaching Egypt.

The EU plans effectively give companies a blank cheque to continue grabbing land from the world's poor to grow biofuels to fill our tanks rather than food to fill their stomachs.

«This is not simply a legacy issue — the military still wields considerable power on the ground and continues to grab yet more land from ethnic minority communities.

2006 Goldman Prize winner from Liberia, Silas Siakor, together with his team at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), is currently leading a public awareness campaign about the impacts of palm oil development and the explosion of corporate land grabs taking place in Africa and across the world.

(08/30/2010) The European Union's renewable fuels target is driving land grabs in Africa that threaten the environment and local communities, claims a new report from Friends of the Earth (FOE).

And it's no less troubling when human rights are violated in the name of conservation or renewable energy; the United States evicted indigenous populations from their land in order to establish the national parks, for example, or, more recently, the massive land grabs that have taken place in the global south, where land is cheap, for biofuel production, solar plants, and wind farms.

From the book «Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras» by Tanya M Kerssen: «Palm oil manufacturing generates three main kinds of waste: solid waste (fibers, shells and empty fruit bunches); liquid waste (generated in the oil extraction process); and air emissions (smoke from boilers and incineratoFrom the book «Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras» by Tanya M Kerssen: «Palm oil manufacturing generates three main kinds of waste: solid waste (fibers, shells and empty fruit bunches); liquid waste (generated in the oil extraction process); and air emissions (smoke from boilers and incineratofrom boilers and incinerators).

Europe's «land footprint» is one of the largest in the world, and the continent is more dependent on land from outside its borders than any other, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, and negative social impacts like land - grabbing and land rights violations.

Just as the dynamite lands on the ice, Alex's dog runs after the stick of dynamite to retrieve and bring it back to Alex. As both men realize what's happening they shout and scream in terror as Alex's dog retrieves the dynamite and starts running back towards Alex. Both men now frantically grab their shot guns and start shooting at the dog to keep it away from them but the dog, not accustomed to being shot at, runs past the men hysterically and drops the dynamite right next to Jack's Mercedes Benzes ML 350.

But first, Derrick Harris and I discuss Amazon's official entry into mobile app development platform a la Parse, which will launch (hopefully) on Thursday; the land grab in cloud storage gateways, and why it's sort of great that Yahoo (s yahoo) Flickr has released a ginormous data set from all those flickr photos and videos for analysis by data scientists or just people who want to experiment with ginormous data sets.

It will also serve as a method to prevent anyone within the government from corrupting the process for nepotism or to execute an illegal land grab.

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It is shocking that politicians are grabbing money from the sale of houses through land transfer taxes and all kinds of other ridiculous home buying taxes instead of raising property taxes.

The land grab scenario, they say, would mean that: «Aside from human rights violations becoming commonplace, employment would decline, production would fade and imports would rise, leading to high levels of food insecurity... This scenario would rank poorly from both an economic and a legal point of view.»