Sentences with phrase «occupied this land for»

The Palestinian Authority negotiates with Israel, the power that has occupied its land for more than 45 years.

«Twenty three years has passed since that historical decision which finally recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders had occupied this land for tens of thousands of years before white colonisation.

Not exact matches

Although it is against the law for travelers to occupy land which has not been designated for this purpose, it is not a criminal offense to occupy private or council - owned land so responsibility lies with the landowner and the police are not usually involved.Most of the time, the issue can be resolved by speaking to the travelers and agreeing a date by which they will move on.

In the interview, he said Trump has surprised him by calling for a slowdown in Israeli settlement construction on occupied land Palestinians seek for a state.

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

America was home for Indians but some losers occupied the land and now they called it United States.

Israel does not belong to the Jews it never did just like America never belonged to the Europeans, theretofore the Jews will always occupy a land that Moses only was insight from afar, Jews will always be the wandering people of the world searching Moses for answers.

Christian Zionists insist that all of historic Palestine — including all the land west of the Jordan which was occupied by Israel after the 1967 war — must be under the control of the Jewish people, for they see that as one of the necessary stages prior to the second coming of Jesus.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

The unipolarists may be granted their semantic insistence that this kind of «imperialism» deserves to be called something else, for they do not aspire to occupy any particular land without the consent of its people.

We need NO more of the 2000 year old dead preacher, who was executed for being a trouble - maker for the Romans, in an occupied land.

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

It was also about expressing support for the Jewish settlement of land Israel occupied since the Jewish state's 1967 war with Arab neighbors.

We share with the deepest possible empathy the feeling the people of Israel have for the land they now occupy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The people in Palestine still occupied their own territory and continued to live by their own traditions; but for that very reason they were not obliged to cut themselves off so completely from the rest of the world as were the Jewish people later, when it became necessary for their self - preservation, exiled as they were from their land and scattered among the nations of the world.

Sets goals of reducing honeybee colony losses during the winter to no more than 15 % within ten years; increasing Eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million occupying approximately 15 acres in Mexico by 2020; and restore or enhance 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years

Timeless small land mines of colorful plastic that will occupy your typically boisterous child for hours on end.

They struggle frantically for altitude, make one wide swoopingparabola and land once more on the same stretch of water they occupied beforeour intrusion.

Arsenal have the power force to land guardiola if the want to, but as for now mr wenger is occupying that position at the moment.

«We hope that discussions between Lagos State Government and Federal Government over Federal Government lands and state lands within Lagos, as well as over disuse or surplus lands which Federal Government especially Defence and Prisons are still occupying in Lagos, and are now surplus to requirement, will be held to settle this palaver once and for all,» Okunnu said.

«We seek to align with other civil society organisations for a much more loud advocacy that ensures that people who are seeking to occupy the high office of our land do not have such questionable track record like Mr Mahama,» Ernesto Yeboah said.

A spokesperson for the MMU said: «Following last week's court action, we took possession of the land adjacent to John Dalton, which had been occupied for a number of weeks.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Albanese holds a press conference on building market rate housing on public land; market rate tenants to occupy upper floors; «poor floors» for everyone else, NYCHA Holmes Towers, 1780 First Ave., Manhattan.

The NY Attorney General's Office awarded the Land Bank $ 4.5 million for renovations to be sold to create affordable, owner - occupied housing.

In retaliation, the government has revoked their consent for you to use their roads, their public services, and occupy their land.

But I am increasingly unsure about whether it's still achievable — mainly because, as time has marched on, and successive negotiating initiatives have come and gone, the land earmarked for a viable Palestinian state has been remorselessly occupied by Israeli settlers.

NORTH GREENBUSH — A love story between Kaylee Dedrick and fellow Occupy Wall Street protester Robert Grodt ended in tragedy when Grodt was killed July 6 by a land mine in Syria where he volunteered as a medic for a Kurdish militia.

The Parliamentary Select - Committee is scandalized that in spite of the support it has given GNPC to go ahead and build for its self a deserving Head Office, the oil company has disregarded the Parliamentary goodwill and rather introduced on their blindside, an idea of going to build an Energy City on the land currently occupied by the Workshop Department of the Ghana Police Service and the 37 office of the Driver Vehicular and Licensing Authority (DVLA).

«Today, my signature on these surveyed maps clears the way for the affected property owners to be free of the state's claim to lands that in many cases have been privately occupied for more than a century,» said state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos in a statement.

«The land they occupy is a territory, a collective good because it was socially constructed space necessary for their physical, social, economic, and cultural reproduction.»

To put it another way, the Goyet individual's descendants were pushed into the Iberian peninsula by the expanding wave of Gravettians — and after clinging on there for thousands of years they expanded again to occupy the lands of their ancestors, carrying the new Magdalenian culture with them.

Its TRY 2004 building would occupy about 8 square kilometres of land and provide offices and homes for a million people.

SMR - 160's footprint is minuscule compared to operating nuclear reactors; occupying a mere 6 acres of land for a two unit site and 4.5 acres for a single unit installation.

That obligation, combined with the education and training he received by participating in the Health Board's environmental health program, convinced Carlisle that Church Rock Chapter needed to conduct its own environmental monitoring to generate new data that would be used to estimate population exposures, plan future health studies, and most important, determine if lands currently occupied and those slated for residential development - like Springstead - are safe for human habitation.

For example, she said, in the previous map, most of India had been categorized as available for biofuel production, but in fact much of that land is farmed or occupied by peopFor example, she said, in the previous map, most of India had been categorized as available for biofuel production, but in fact much of that land is farmed or occupied by peopfor biofuel production, but in fact much of that land is farmed or occupied by people.

Constraining coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist along reefs occupying densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.

Some academies may occupy land or premises owned by other bodies for which no annual or a nominal rental payment is made.

School site number: The number assigned by the Virginia State Department of Education to a given parcel of land to be occupied for educational purposes by a given school division which may or may not contain school buildings.

Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform.

Finding the appeal of the 2014 Land Rover LR4 is tricky, but it starts beneath the Alpine roof, on the inside of the box, where the spacious SUV boasts room for up to seven souls with all of its seats upright and occupied.

Stereotyped as violent, intransigent fundamentalists, the people of Yesha, as sociologist Selengut, who has studied them for many years, demonstrates, show a broad range of ideas about how their bedrock conviction that Jews are duty - bound to occupy the land God gave them should be realized.

Soon after, it was occupied by the Egyptians who controlled Canaan (a historical name for the Levant, which consists of the lands east of the Mediterranean corresponding with modern day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon and western Syria) for the next 350 years, until the Philistines (from which the word «Palestine» is derived) captured the area in the 12th century BCE.

To qualify for a PRE on a parcel of land, a person must be a Michigan resident who owns and occupies the property as a principal residence.

The ruins are hardly worth the visit for its archaeological value, but they are a nice reminder of who originally occupied this land.

Still, there's a certain charm to commanding your ships, and it's certainly worth taking the time to dominate the sea as occupying certain squares on the map allows you to gain support for your on - land expeditions, such as calling in an artillery barrage or missile strike.

When he isn't conquering Europe or questing the vast lands of Tamriel, he is ever searching for a unique and ingenious game to keep him occupied, until that next offering by Creative Assembly or Bethesda marches across his desktop.

The Ness is a remote and isolated place, an uninhabited no - man's - land, for decades occupied solely by the military for practicing the dark arts of war.

Most violent evictions come at the instigation of private developers taking over land occupied by artists for real estate projects, although it is unclear who was behind an incident this year in Caochangdi, where members of the curiously named Iowa Co-op were forcibly evicted and their studios destroyed.

The exhibition filled YBCA with everything his astronauts need to successfully complete their voyage — including the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, the Apollo - era Landing Excursion Module (LEM), and special equipment for conducting scientific experiments — immersing the audience in a universe of sculpture occupying the entire downstairs galleries in addition to YBCA's public spaces.

Cities occupy not only the land that their buildings cover but their footprint covers the land needed for raising crops for the people, the water shed needed for drinking and sanitation and much more.