Sentences with phrase «much land for»

How did a group whose spectacles of violence galvanized the world against it hold onto so much land for so long?

Apparently there is still support for the sentiment that.3 percent really was too much land for First Nations.

To have a Tiny House, you don't need much land for the actual house, but you do need enough to be able to obscure the house from prying eyes in order to fly under the radar of code enforcement and curmudgeons.

Not exact matches

Their costs for capital, labour, land, energy and other resources are subsidized such that they generate huge retained earnings, much of which is being reinvested in foreign real assets like Canada's oilpatch, says U of T's Dobson.

Credit the unconventional salesmanship of Olivier Francois, CEO of the Chrysler brand, for landing the much - coveted track.

Agrium says this spring's unfavourable conditions left many North American farmers unable to cultivate as much land as they'd intended, boding well for nutrient demand this fall.

Barros explained there was no development slated for that land otherwise, and thus, Boston would reap much more in property tax revenue from the land with GE there than without it.

It wouldn't make much sense, for example, if a person who excelled at accounting were being forced to land new accounts for the firm.

The problem is Canada doesn't collect or publicly disseminate some data that could give us a clearer picture about what is actually happening in the market — whether it is headed for a soft or hard landing — and whether households can withstand increases in mortgage rates, how much and how quickly.

«We spent $ 2,500 or $ 3,000 for this whole [landing page] package, and I'm very sure we got that much out of it in the first couple months.

It's been used for direct mail, television and radio, sales pages, landing pages, and so much more.

But a sampling of deal documents suggests it took easements and land donations responsible for as much as $ 1 billion in write - offs in 2017.

For starters, Fort McMurray features complex, hilly terrain, where the fire can spread much faster than on flat land.

Though calculations of the environmental impact of Dr Post's lab - grown meat have yet to be published, early indications suggest that cultured meat could reduce the need for land and water by as much as 90 % and overall energy use by up to 70 %.

I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.

Russian labor is to be paid wages above subsistence levels only to the extent that it can be taxed, thereby «freeing» as much non-wage income as possible from taxation — in particular, income for the privatized land, mineral resources and hitherto public utilities.

Through little else but the sheer force of his personality, he landed an investor, Mark Cuban; rebuilt a team; signed up a real client in satellite TV provider EchoStar; and, finally, in 2007 sold the company to his much larger rival, Akamai, for $ 23 million.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

But for the most part, the exercise requires so much of our attention that we can't really drift off in LaLa land.

A full 97 % of U.S. land mass is eligible for USDA financing, much of which is just outside major metro areas.

In their discussion they cover Zenefits» meteoric rise as the fastest growing SaaS company ever (grown to 800 employees in two years) with no plans to slow down, why «the Salesforce for employment» is an interesting analogy for the Zenefits business, how Andreessen Horowitz was a huge help in landing David Sacks (former Yammer Founder / CEO) as COO, how Jason switched his companies to Zenefits last year & is saving huge $ $ — and much more!

Our ship was listing a bit too much to the right for us land lovers!

One day Jesus» light will shine throughout all the lands and every foul sinner will be exposed and the shame alone will be too much for them to bear.

Certainly not much is said about defending the land from God's enemies as the Hebrews, for all their military might in killing women and children, always seem to get their asses handed to them when a professional army of men invades.

For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious preceFor decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precefor a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

Worse yet, much of this land is unsuitable for use as pastureland and, when used for such purposes, is gradually ruined for any future use, including forestation (Tosi).

we are no longer servants but friends, we are no longer exiles but home builders, we are no longer fighting but farming, we are no longer orphans but family, we are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we are no longer broken but we are mended and healed and whole, we are no longer wanderers but we are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to Love and to grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath of God.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

Moreover, much of the transferred land was desolate and uninhabitable, and many of the Mexicans living in the useful territory were deeply estranged from Mex - ico City and grateful for their incorporation into the United States.

What the people needed most was water for themselves, their grasslands and their crops, and canals and reservoirs were developed with much engineering skill to drain off the flood waters and irrigate the land.

He knows how much the different versions of the first edition of Ulysses cost in francs, pounds, and dollars, how much Eliot received from all sources for publishing The Waste Land and how that compares with the per capita income of the United States at the time, and how much Ezra Pound's first book had increased in value by 1924.

We rely on laws of the land for morality just as much as you do, but most atheists ascribe to humanist ideals.

And Peter said to her, «Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.»

(Incidentally, this is one of the main reasons for America's support of Israel, since Israel's control of the «biblical lands» is a first step toward the «Rapture» and the end of the world which is so much desired by these Christians!)

Sermons that make this second point about poor people tithing often transition over to Matthew 19:29 (or Mark 10:29 - 30) where Jesus promises that those who give up relationships, possessions, homes, and land for His sake, will receive one - hundred times as much in this life and in the life to come.

Government policies should favor much smaller farms worked by owners who care for the land.

But surely there must be some limit to how much of our land we are prepared to exchange for consumer goods.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

I believe that Israel should and must exist, but I can not support the policies of the Israeli government that enforce separate standards of living for Arab Israelis, much less the continual deprivation of civil rights andconfiscation of Palestinian lands in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

It carries on mission work in most of the countries of the world, has hospitals, colleges, and other schools in many lands, and has done much for the amelioration of human suffering as well as for the propagation of its faith.

In his book Strangers in a Strange Land, Archbishop Charles Chaput argues for a much more holistic and active kind of purity:

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

i doubt they have much or any of social welfare for them, and more importantly many or most, if not all, monastic orders were actually pretty self - sufficient and all, tending not only to fields and buildings, before land lived righteously on was taken / stolen from them, something which happened at various places.

Because for almost 13 thousand years this land was dominated and cultivated by native Americans, who took much, much better care of the land than our European ancestors (and us) did.

The monasteries, for example, emphasized personal poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they did not denounce communal wealth, and some of the monastic religious orders wound up in the pre-Reformation days with incredible wealth in land holdings, much of it confiscated in the battles between the various crowns and the papacy.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

It is not only a shame, but a major threat for peace and respectful cohabitation with the Palestinians, who have as much rights as the Israelis on the palestine land.

It is why so much land and capital in the Third World is put to producing luxuries for export.