Sentences with phrase «of losing land»

He told us all a startling fact: «Two and a half billion people — that's a third of our global population — are at risk of losing their land to more powerful interests.»

Due to their lack of ownership over land (and other reasons mentioned previously), this constant positive feedback loop of injustice leads to women being at a higher risk of losing their land which results in food insecurity and acute poverty.

«Ours is a question of protecting open space and comes at a time that all of McHenry County is terrified of losing land to developers,» said Crystal Lake Park District planner Ann Viger.

I've always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization.

The world of The Lost Lands: Dinosaur Hunter is waiting for you!!

As the champion of the Lost Lands, you're the only one brave enough to face them... but can you track them down and stop them in time?

You and your fellow explorers bear a mysterious curse, and only by discovering the secrets of a lost land can you hope to survive.

There would be no federal intervention in WA's land rights legislation, no veto over mineral exploration, no mining royalty equivalents and no mention of lost lands.

Not exact matches

It's likely most people who are in financial trouble are aware of it, and usually long before landing in bankruptcy court or losing their home in foreclosure.

The cyclone is expected to lose much of its punch over land but meteorologists warned it could reform again if it reaches the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 250 km (155 miles) from the coast.

But, for the most part, cities have not yet fully bought in to them, largely because of the inflexibility they introduce: Cities lose their ability to repurpose community - entrusted land for other uses, such as zoning it for commercial use if necessary, because the land is often locked into long - term leases, usually spanning in the 75 - year range.

Take your most important goal right now — whether it's to lose weight, make more money, or land the promotion at work — and spend some time focusing all of your attention towards getting very clear about the answers to the questions I just proposed.

You lose confidence in the dollar and you want to get out of the dollar, at which point you're like «okay you can pay me in dollars, but I'm going to buy land, fine art, gold, silver, that's when velocity accelerates almost of nowhere, and inflation takes off.

Sarah Palin lost, and she landed a bunch of book deals and a television shows.

In sprawling suburbia, these large swaths of land could house densely - packed residential developments, shops, community centers, libraries, schools, and all sorts of other buildings that could help rebuild a long - lost sense of community.

The ranks of the army were depleted because the citizenry had lost its land tenure, and that's what led kings Aegis and Cleomenes and Nabis to push for a debt cancellation to restore land ownership.

They believe that after so long in power, not only was there a wave of change, they became tone deaf to issues of affordability and early childhood education, issues that resonated in the suburbs around Vancouver and lower main land, where they lost.

Previously, poor Hondurans were at risk of losing property and land because of inefficient and insufficient land registry systems that were frequently corrupted.

Dealing with the F / A -18 E / F Super Hornet fleet, four aircraft were lost (fortunately resulting in 0 fatalities) including the one lost last week: two VFA - 211 F / A -18 F jets from NAS Oceana collided and crashed 25 miles E of the Oregon Inlet, Nags Head, NC on May 26, 2016; earlier this year, on Apr. 21, 2017, a VFA - 137 F / A -18 E crashed during a landing attempt on USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Celebes sea, between Indonesia and the Philippines.

All that being said — No offense — but you lose all credibility about fiscal prudence when you say you own an off - warranty Land rover — regardless of what decade it was built.

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A rendering by Richard Chenoweth of «Keys Cottages» that are being designed by the Florida Keys Community Land Trust to house people who lost their homes during Hurricane Irma.

The goal of the christian is not a government or a piece of land or a possession, or money, rather the redemption of lost souls.

From the link to «Lost and found: Missing in Rishikesh, India, the «Land of Gods,»» above: [«They become delusional and, in extreme cases, disappear - often during quests for enlightenment.»

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

Going this way keeps you from having to sell the current property, buy a new property, and definitely avoids any possibility of losing your 501 (c) 3 status because you have begun to develop the land.

I was so excited after opening my bible and saw that verse I failed to immediatley grasp the problem i was in.Before long i had a plan to sell my house and buy a piece of land and somehow i lost everything and i am now staying in a squatter camp as a tenant.

When traveling over colder water, and land especially, the storm loses most of the energy that it gains from the high temperatures.

Put aside your foolish christian god and Odin will temper his son's wrath... You live in the land of ice and snow... you are Odin's children... you have simply lost your way...

when the journeying is begun, it is as if he wandered out into a strange land where nothing but the contrast with what he has lost reminds him of that which he wished for.

It is in the dry and weary land where we lose sight of Godâ $ ™ s love because we donâ $ ™ t feel cared for.

Compensating Abram for the recent loss of the more favorable land, God stresses in beginning and ending how the lost land and more will eventually be Abram's.

David said, «I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.»

The event will be attended by thousands of victims from all walks of life - soldiers who lost limbs clearing landmines, mothers whose children were forcibly recruited by the rebels, never to be seen again and farmers driven off their land by right - wing paramilitary groups.

Christianity lost this connection with the land largely because of its otherworldliness.

As farmers are driven from their homesteads, many go into the jungle to clear new land for crops, with the result that some 1.75 million acres of rain forest have been lost.

De te fabula: the story is the story of each one of us, exiled by false self - seeking from the garden of human obedience and hence from human happiness into the strange land where we seek only our own way and hence lose our intended happiness.

Like Matthew, Luke says «lost its taste» instead of Mark's «lost its saltness,» suggesting that the ordinary use of salt for seasoning is in mind; but instead of Matthew's «It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot» Luke has «It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away.»

France alone lost thousands of men in these expeditions to the Holy Land, and the treasuries of Christendom were exhausted.

When they landed at the United Church of Santa Fe, they often felt lost and disoriented, as if they had gone through multiple intimate relationships.

According to one estimate, more than 500,000 acres are lost each year to salinity and waterlogging together, so that today the amount of land ruined by irrigation probably equals all that can be made productive if irrigated.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

Not the land of the land of the lost but the land of the «seeking to be closer!»

And Moses, the paragon of meekness as well as of piety, lost his temper and so was debarred from entering the land.

The other crossed the Khyber pass and entered the land of India, gradually fanning out to cover the greater part of that vast subcontinent, but losing, in the course of its southern movement, much of its original character.

The presupposition of the Scriptures is that man is unfree; he is lost in the wilderness; he can not find his way to the Land of Truth and Freedom.

In point of fact, his travels did carry him into the land of the Lost Cause, although I am not sure that he recognized it.

With modern land - use acts some women have lost their means of livelihood.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.