Sentences with phrase «of vast tracts of land»

Early signs of this are the record - high grain prices of the last few years, the restriction on grain exports by exporting countries, and the acquisition of vast tracts of land abroad by grain - importing countries.

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To get from his home to the factory that he owns on the other side of town, Zak Pashak, the owner and president of Detroit Bikes, takes Joy Road, a notorious Detroit artery whose name belies the mirthless array of derelict houses, boarded - up storefronts and vast, empty tracts of overgrown land that line it.

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New MexLand and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexland in New Mexico.

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.

A chief in the Eastern Region, has given out vast tract of land to the youth in his area, and non-indigenes, who have interest in the cocoa sector, but are hindered by lack of land.

That's what the government has called vast tracts of land outside our towns and cities that it has wanted to protect from development - as if they were full of birds, bugs and gentle hedgerows.

Although they create jobs and bring in money to local and national economies, airports also create noise, pollution and transport problems as well as taking up vast tracts of land.

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needOF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof Ulster County government's electrical needs.

A vast tract of land which was once the home of 19th Century industry in iron and steel manufacturing is closer to becoming home for a vast 21st Century manufacturing complex.

For towns with vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets — including about $ 3 million for the latter.

During the last century, the Australian government encouraged farming on difficult land, handing out water licenses to just about anyone willing to put in the backbreaking toil of making the country's vast tracts of scrub desert bloom with citrus orchards and vineyards.

These vast tracts of land around the capital were also being completely remade.

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

«Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming, and we have recently shown that in the UK land spared through high - yield farming could even sequester enough greenhouse gases to mitigate the UK's agricultural emissions *,» said Balmford.

Now, countries including China, Kuwait and Sweden are snapping up vast tracts of agricultural land in poorer nations, especially in Africa, to grow biofuels and food for themselves.

In clearing vast tracts of land, those prolific loggers released so much sand and dirt that open - water bays turned into swamps.

The incoming administration will have full control over leasing of renewable energy on federal lands and waters, including vast tracts of public lands across the West and the open waters off the East and West coasts.

Moreover, utility - scale power farms will require vast tracts of land.

And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

A sporty car and vast uninhabited tracts of land make a heady cocktail.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century the Mexican government — in eternal social and financial turmoil — started selling off vast tracts of land in its desolate northern provinces on the notion that wealthy American entrepreneurs would exploit the land by building infrastructure that the government in Mexico City could not afford.

A couple of small examples might be Maui Land and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New MexLand and Pineapple, which holds vast tracts of Hawaiian real estate, and Amrep, which holds huge tracts of land in New Mexland in New Mexico.

Neverwinter Strongholds are coming to PC players this August 11th and bring with them vast tracts of land to fight over.

This is the same guy who just green - lighted offshore Arctic oil drilling and promised to open vast tracts of public land to heavily - subsidized coal mining.

Vast tracts of land were cleared of forest cover and given over to tobacco plantations which changed drainage patterns and coastal aquifer recharge rates.

And Professor Balmford says: «Sparing tracts of land as natural habitat is much better for the vast majority of species than a halfway house of lower - yielding but «wildlife - friendly» farming.

The Trump administration's move to start rewriting a plan for vast tracts of Southern California desert lands could have long - term repercussions for renewable energy production and wildlife conservation.

When the aforementioned families protected land for public benefit, they were able to safeguard vast tracts of pristine wilderness.

The country has vast tracts of pasture and agricultural land that are being underutilized or have been abandoned, but rapidly appreciating land prices, coupled with poor governance and inconsistent enforcement of environmental laws, means that it is often more profitable to clear new forest land than to rehabilitate pasture.

«[S] ince vast tracts of land worldwide have experienced similar booms of agricultural productivity in recent decades, it is possible that other areas of the world have experienced similar climatic effects due to agricultural intensification, especially in light of recent observational connections between extreme temperatures and agricultural intensification in other intensely cropped regions (Mueller et al., 2017).»

The 1997 Delgamuukw decision evoked visions of vast tracts of hunting territory, «exclusively used and occupied» by a First Nation (essentially, being under the sovereign power of a First Nation), that were declared to be, in the present day, lands from which the First Nation was entitled to exclude all others, even the Crown.

This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the six reserved legal activities found under the Legal Services Act 2007 and, more importantly, considering the vast tracts of non-reserved legal territory as we approach the post-LSA land grab.

At the bottom are lots of states with vast tracts of rural land: North and South Dakota, Idaho, and Arkansas, all clocking in around 20 - 22 lawyers per 10,000 people.

Estates such as Silver Lakes are virtually suburbs in their own right, often covering vast tracts of land and have thousands of homes in them.

Showed the property to clients last night, land registry shows it as a vast undeveloped tract of land, original purchase price not given, nor is an assessment.