Sentences with phrase «oil rich lands»

War is about holy land, historical lands, land claims, territorial claims, international lands, religious lands, worship rights, fishing rights, mining rights and oil rich lands.

Not exact matches

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

The disputed clumps of land are small and barren, not to mention overrun with feral goats — but they sit in waters rich with tuna and oil.

Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.

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!

An Nigerian airman has been killed in an attack on an air force helicopter landing facility in the oil - rich Niger Delta region.

It makes sense, then, that high - vitamin cod liver oil should serve as a safe standalone supply of vitamin A even during the winter, while liver from land animals should either be used during seasons where the supply of UV - B rays from the sun is rich enough to guarantee adequate vitamin D, or in conjunction with vitamin D - rich foods such as lard from pastured pigs, oily fish, shellfish, and egg yolks from pastured chickens, all of which supply smaller but substantial amounts of vitamin D. (For a list of these and other food sources of vitamin D with specific concentrations listed, see Appendix 3.

On a tip, the Plainviews head to Little Boston, California, where Daniel carefully plots to purchase the Sunday family's oil - rich ranch and lease drilling rights from all surrounding land.

With rhapsodic and cosmic imagination, Bass turns salt - and oil - rich West Texas into a land of «strange and powerful happenings» that forever mark the desert's loners and seekers.

Even though the reserves account for a large stretch of land, there isn't a great deal of overlap in the government - owned lands and the oil - and gas - rich geologic compositions.

As a landowner, you have little recourse and will see few benefits from oil extraction (not like the U.S. where an individual may get rich from an oil discovery on their land).

America's environmentalists, legislators, judges and bureaucrats have already made hundreds of millions of acres of resource - rich land off limits — and rendered centuries of oil, gas, coal, uranium, geothermal and other energy unavailable.

Woody plantations crops like oil palm and coconut rate much better, although their advantages are reduced when they are grown in place of carbon - rich tropical rainforests and peat lands.

Obama: I have always been in favor of an «all of the above» climate policy, including a carbon price with cap and trade, crippling EPA regulatory restrictions on the coal plus oil and gas industries, fewer incentives for exploratory drilling, no further drilling on government lands, no Keystone pipeline, more taxes on the rich, etc..

The endangered birds are no longer on the land, but the group continues to grow rich off of oil profits.

More than 120 million acres of protected land — larger than the state of California — are situated over rich reserves of oil, coal and gas, according to a new analysis by Greenpeace's Unearthed investigations team.