Sentences with phrase «land grabs which»

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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.

Remember when Uncle Ira tried to find out which developer was behind the eminent domain land grab of the farm?

He gave the assent 34 days after the state House of Assembly passed the bill, which criminalises land grabbing or forceful takeover of landed property in the state.

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.

It's the fastest - growing spot on the planet, which inevitably means growing pains: «We're seeing a real rush, almost a feeding frenzy of foreign mining investment, and in some cases, land grabs.»

Short - sighted economic gains such as land grabbing, unplanned urban sprawl, unsustainable agriculture and over-consumption lead to unsustainable land use, which eventually causes degradation and loss of critical ecosystem services.

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

Jaguar Land Rover, which has been on the fringes of the Indian luxury car space, is estimated to have grabbed a market share of 13 - 14 % of the overall market, growing nearly 45 % in the first nine months of the calendar year becoming the fastest growing luxury car brand in India.

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.

The farm was split among four brothers, eventually, who then sold off half each so that by the time Berndt Vogel escaped the latest war of Europe, during which he'd been chopped mightily but inconclusively in six places by a lieutenant's saber and then kicked by a horse so ever after his jaw didn't shut right, there was just one beautiful and peaceful swatch of land about to go for grabs.

Then longer term, there's a whole other land - grab ahead — Alphabet's US revenues still represent 47 % of total revenues, about double the US share of world GDP — that would suggest huge / long term upside growth potential in digital advertising revenues across the rest of the OECD, and particularly in emerging / frontier markets (which are now leap - frogging straight into the digital / smartphone age).

Nintendo has recently grabbed a trademark for «Awazon no Hihou», which is the second part of the Japanese name for Virtual Boy Wario Land.

Enemies now give coins, rather than dropping them, when stomped, ground pounded, tail whipped, touched while invincible, or upon grabbing the Goal Pole, which itself gives coins depending on how high Mario lands on it (except the top, which gives an extra life).

Land Grab is a king - of - the - hill type gameplay which is initiated on the public Free Roam map.

I was heartened to see an editorial in The Wall Street Journal push Cambodia (and its supporters, including the United States and international donors) to fight rampant corruption under which «hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have endured land grabs and evictions.»

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.

Kurniawan Sabar, campaign manager for WALHI / Friends of the Earth Indonesia, said: «The people of Indonesia will be relieved to hear that the EU has taken some action to limit Europe's demand for palm oil for biofuels, which has escalated deforestation, land grabbing, and conflicts in Indonesia.

The provision calls for an immediate full - scale disposal of «certain» public lands, without defining which lands it would apply to, leaving national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and national forests apparently up for grabs and vulnerable to development, privatization, or transfer to state ownership.

We were loosely aware of the resulting «land grabs» by wealthy countries, which buy up agricultural land in poorer countries to ensure their own country's food far into the future.

Like them or not... their function seems to be reporting on their land grabs, which does have a certain utility for reporters and other actors.»

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.

The land up for grabs used to be part of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which was closed in 1997.