Sentences with phrase «like land grabs»

Naively, Doc follows the lead of troubled ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston), nosing his way into a conspiracy involving «Chinatown» - like land grabs, a coke - addled dentist (Martin Short, dazzling) and a shadowy consortium called the Golden Fang.

Not exact matches

There is no «sharia law» that neccesiates death except if the person has killed somebody or is involved in mischeif on land (like grabbing someone else's land, looting, instigating riots and wars or torturing people etc).

It's a narrative rejected by the 2.5 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and who say that the scores of settlements like Shilo deny the viability of a future Palestinian state and constitute an Israeli land grab.

Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian hospitals, censorship of the entire populace with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).

They're not going to land Bradley Chubb with the 27th overall pick, but they may be able to grab a guy like Arden Key or Texas - San Antonio's Marcus Davenport.

Only this time, City Hall didn't get away with anything like the notorious Grant Park land grab:

Like so many others, I watched the audacious land grab on the centre ground with awe in 1997.

This is because we are simply fed up with the sheer barbarity and cruelty of powerful and well - armed ethnic militias like the Fulani herdsmen, terrorist organizations like Boko Haram, aggressive, violent, intemperate and intolerant land - grabbing settlers like the Hausa Fulani communities dotted all over the Middle Belt and the south and the excesses and genocidal tendencies of our northern - led security agencies and Armed Forces.

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.

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

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.

Head over to its landing spot to grab weapons like;

You have weird grab - bag things like Kirby All - Star, and even traditional platformers that are aesthetically experimental like Dream Land 3 and Epic Yarn.

``... it isn't like I grabbed it off the back of a truck or anything, I just happened to get lucky because unnamed store decided to ship early for whatever reason,» they had explained, when challenged as to how it somehow managed to land on their doorstep.

Like Tiny Houses, the house is as much a political statement as it is an architectural one, providing a response to the soaring price of Chinese real estate and government «land grabs» that have displaced many Chinese citizens.

«The land might be owned by the state or government and used by the communities and has been like that for centuries,» said Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia who studies land and water grabbing.

This practice is part of a worldwide land - grabbing trend prevalent in countries, like Cambodia, where corrupt governments aid international corporations.

If the new finding leads to a bona fide legal opinion in a court of law, it could have significant implications in broader climate - change talks because many REDD opponents fear such schemes could promote a land - grab that decimates tribes like the Suruí and others.

Then, before the day is done, we hear ominous warnings that REDD could spark a land grab that destroys the livelihoods of indigenous people like Brazil's Suruí, whose forests suddenly have value as carbon sinks.

Kenya Communications Intern, Grace Wanene, shares what it was like to take part in a Green Belt Movement protest against illegal land grabbing in Nairobi.

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.

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.»