Sentences with phrase «of land grants»

In addition, public funds went to local private schools in the form of land grants and taxes from local residents.

«The idea of this postdoc was to provide some time and fairly close supervision with a mentor,» during which postdocs can learn the make - or - break skill of landing grants, he says.

The year before the war, for example, Lincoln created the system of land grant colleges that would indelibly influence how Americans would be educated.

This successful partnership between a major university and a small town would have not been possible without an understanding of the land grant university's mission — teaching, research, and outreach — and a respect for the capacity of town and afterschool leaders.

(Details in link below) A number of organizations, including the Association of Land Grant Universities (APLU) have weighed in noting that the bill would be «an alarming setback for students.»

Some are related to the expiry of 25 - year old land concessions that the Macau Government declared as expired due to the lack of development of the land granted to the developers.

It traces the 1881 petition from the Yorta Yorta people to the Governor of New South Wales for «a sufficient area of land granted to us to cultivate and raise stock»; the 1886 Corranderk petition: «We should be free like the White Population, there is only few Blacks now remaining in Victoria, we are all dying away now...»; David Unaipon's call in 1926 for the establishment of an Aboriginal state; William Cooper's 1933 Petition to the King; the 1938 Day of Mourning; the Wave Hill walk off; and the 1967 Referendum.

Not exact matches

St Modwen and Kuwait - based Salhia Real Estate Company have been granted planning permission for the joint venture's proposed development of land adjacent to The Meads Shopping Centre in Farnborough.

The plot of land in Osaka, western Japan, was appraised to be worth 956,000,000 yen ($ 8.95 million) but the ministry granted the school operator an 820,000,000 yen discount.

Granted, «Fire and Fury» is juicy as a summer peach, filled with gossipy takedowns of pretty much every boldface name in Trump Land.

In Victoria, reductions in land taxes have been announced for businesses and investors, while first - home buyers will receive a one - off additional grant for purchases before the end of June 2005.

How do you reconcile land being granted to form the new nation of Israel with your assertion that the relatives of those settling within the new nation deserved their fate in the Holocaust?

Joseph Smith did grant land and home ownership to black members of the church who followed him to Nauvoo and made sure that they were given the same rights and privileges of other members (other than the priesthood).

In a few short years or even months, it is very likely that this new definition will become the law of the land, and in all jurisdictions the rights, privileges, and duties of marriage will be granted to men in partnership with men, and women with women.

I respect your views and beliefs and by know means wish to take away your choices and rights according to your beliefs, also i'm glad we live in such a land that grants freedom of religion and will gladly fight to keep that right for us all.

Apostle Howard W. Hunter was president of the Polynesian Cultural Center (Hawaii), and director of Beneficial Life Insurance Co., of Continental Western Life Insurance Co., of Deseret Federal Savings and Loan, of First Security Bank of Utah, of First Security Corp., of Heber J. Grant & Co., of PHA Life Insurance Co. (Oregon), of Watson Land Co. (Los Angeles), and of Western American Life Insurance Co..

The US Army Corps of Engineers announced that they will not grant Energy Transfer Partners permission to extend the project beneath the Missouri reservoir — which is on land on the Sioux Tribes Standing Rock reservation.

The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.

He gave extensive grants of land and money to develop a flourishing center of learning at Lucknow.

However, Land said that before current immigrants are granted legal status, the U.S. must» [secure] the border first with measurable metrics that have been certified as met by the federal government in terms of stemming the flow of illegal immigration.»

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

As president of a university that drew to itself all of New York's land - grant income besides a founder's ample endowment, White's dislike for the church colleges, intensified by their resentment of Cornell's wealth, drew him to appreciate the animosity Henry Tappan had experienced at Michigan:

With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, «Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord and God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!»

STONER»S PRAYER Now I pass out into sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - AnonGrant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anongrant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - AnonGrant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anonymous

Grant it, most western atheists don't put guns to your head in the name of sociological reform and purging the mother land of the harmful philosophies of theism, demanding you recant your beliefs.

Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic English nobleman, had been given a huge tract of land just north of Virginia, and the king had granted him absolute control over the area.

For land grant colleges and universities to shift from a primary focus on the service of the state to a focus on service of the market was an easy transition.

(Cf.. The Magnificent Charter: The Origin and Role of the Morrill Land - Grant Colleges and Universities, by Joseph B. Edmond.

When obedience and loyalty were fulfilled, God granted the children of Israel a land flowing with milk and honey.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

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.

For example, the land - grant universities that were established to promote agriculture quickly left farmers behind, and even as they advanced research programs in the service of science and technology they contributed to the demise of farming as a way of life.

Her unrelenting despair won the solidarity of a war - weary people and finally moved King David to grant the men a proper burial, thus ending the famine that had swept the land.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

Shortly after the Land O» Lakes statement spoke defiance to outside authority, the State of New York, which had many of its citizens enrolled in independent colleges and universities that were almost all laboring under severe annual deficits, made institutional grants (known as «Bundy money») available to them.

The churches can offer the health plans they want, but when they have a business outside the church, such as a school, or hospital, they must go by the laws of the land and not be granted any special treatment because they are owned by a church.

There has always been some tension between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise protections of the First Amendment, but the Supreme Court, when considering a similar challenge to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in 2005 — wherein the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that granting protections to religious prisoners amounted to a violation of the Establishment Clause — ruled that alleviating a state - imposed substantial burden on religious practice did not violate the Establishment Clause.

Replying to Gandhi's assertion that «Palestine belongs to the Arabs» and the Jews have no right to settle there, Buber, while granting and upholding the claim of the Arabs, staunchly upholds the prior and also vital claim of the Jews, which goes back some 3,000 years and is based on what they experienced as a divine mission to hallow a particular land and build a good society there.

An important matter here was that he confined permission for the preaching of Indulgences to those sponsored locally; he would not grant permission for papal Indulgences issued from Rome to be preached in his lands.

The King of Spain gave Fages permission to create land grants and the area was divided into five ranchos, one of which was Rancho Los Coyotes with a total of 48,806 acres.

Grants given by the cooperative are matched by Land O» Lakes Inc. «We give back to the community in a number of ways,» Durham says.

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

Sonoma County Snares $ 8 Million to Fight Drought and Climate Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Friday...

The government granted IRRI the use of a 10 - hectare plot of land at Gihanga for rice research.

To support IRRI's activities, First Vice-President Busokoza also announced that the government has granted IRRI use of a 10 hectare plot of land at Gihanga for its rice research.

After all, Ethiopia is known as the land of milk and honey (although for the record I should note that I've also heard the same title granted to both Israel and Ireland).

Grants available for the development of new or improved control tools and technologies to help farmers and land managers reduce the harmful impacts of established pest animals and weeds.

Prominent pioneers and owners of the vast Santo Thomas Spanish Land Grant, the Casads «treated Fabian as their own,» according to Singleton.

The privately held, diversified company traces its roots to the 1860s with the formation of The Irvine Ranch ® from Mexican and Spanish land grants.

They were feeling the heat of Baylor breathing down their necks, and now they have some serious breathing room, as Land - Grant Holy Land notes: