Sentences with phrase «on land grabs»

Like them or not... their function seems to be reporting on their land grabs, which does have a certain utility for reporters and other actors.»

But if information on land grabs is poor, then that on water grabs is far worse.

«To ensure the effectiveness of the law, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode set up the task force on land grabbing to handle individuals or groups that may be on the wrong side of the law,» he said.

The Coordinator, Lagos State Taskforce on Land Grabbing, Jide Bakare, said it was stated in the law that any traditional ruler who engaged in illegal activities of land grabbing would be dethroned.

The Egyptian empire was at its height before the reign of Akhenaten IV but during his reign much of the land was lost as the Hittites, taking advantage of the empire's vulnerability, went on a land grab.

You'll take on enemies both in the air and on land grabbing upgrades in firepower, armor and maneuverability.

If you want to wait until Pinterest figures out their new terms and conditions, go ahead, but you're missing out on the land grab.

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Once you have found the best DKI headline and supporting description strategy to grab the attention of as many prospects as possible and maximize qualified traffic to your landing pages, it's time to replicate this strategy in each of the ad group's landing pages in order to maximize conversion rates on that traffic.

When someone lands on your website you have mere seconds to grab his or her attention.

Despite claiming on multiple occasions that it believes the land grab is over and that it is time to enter «manufacturing mode,» CHK continues to outspend peers for leaseholds.

If your colleagues think you might steal their thunder and credit, try a land grab for their area or projects, or misspeak on their behalf, they're not going to take any chances.

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold mine.

A «Lord of the Rings» reference in several crypto projects illustrates a coming land grab on the finite amount of «cool» names.

After upstarts Dollar Shave Club and Harry's made serious land grabs on its home razor blade turf, Gillette seems to be achie...

With a selection of simple yet elegant designs, SquareSpace focuses on the visual side of things, incorporating large, stand - out images into many templates so that your work is the first thing that grabs the attention of anybody landing on the page.

«Early on, we made a conscious business decision to scale audience as aggressively as we could: Turf war, land grab,» Dave Finocchio says.

There is no «sharia law» that neccesiates death except if the person has killed somebody or is involved in mischeif on land (like grabbing someone else's land, looting, instigating riots and wars or torturing people etc).

So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.

President of Berom Youth Movement, Choji Chuwang, told a local newspaper: «As we gleefully wallow in the false sense of peace on the Plateau, know it today that a deliberate economic terrorism and land - grabbing strategy is being launched on Christians of Riyom and Barkin Ladi on a daily basis with the sole aim of making them poor, weak and destitute in their own land.»

And when I grabbed a tea towel to let the dough rise under it, an entire stack of towels landed on my head.

Durant dove for a ball near the scorer's table and landed awkwardly on his wrist, immediately grabbing it while in obvious discomfort.

Still, signing Kournikova is a coup for Advantage, which not only grabbed a property of seemingly boundless potential as a player and endorser but also landed a package deal: When, on Aug. 10, she told IMG of her decision to bolt, Fedorov did likewise, and is also now with Advantage.

The publication gives a multitude of examples of the severe violations of the right to food and nutrition that the current food system is provoking: from forced evictions and land grabbing by companies or corrupted members of governments, as illustrated by the articles on Mexico and on the Arab Spring, to inappropriate food supply programs or speculative investments in agrofuels, described in the articles on Bangladesh, Paraguay and the Philippines.

At the time, the congresswoman was not shy about saying she felt Kaloyeros was overstepping his bounds and making a power grab on a project she worked hard to land for her constituents.

Labour has hit back at the Conservative land - grab on its political territory on Monday by presenting its own ideas on cooperative structures.

Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

That's a problem, considering that most of us who click on an ad only stay the landing page for a few seconds unless it really grabs us (on that note, I'd be very interested to see the analytics on how many people hit the page, how many start the video, and how long the average «view» is).

Ten open seats on the City Council will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will take over.

We had a land grab threat if new homes weren't built, while vowing to use the muscle of the state to freeze energy bills up to 2017 can only prove popular on the doorstep.

The governor said the United States government treated Native Americans badly, including the forced march of the Cherokee nation, known as the Trail of Tears, and land grabs that left tribes on less desirable reservation lands.

Like so many others, I watched the audacious land grab on the centre ground with awe in 1997.

The land grab highlights the propensity of primitive mindsets of the people on the corridors of power in Nigeria.

A 2013 study found that modern eel catfish grab prey on land with their jaws but return to water to swallow the meal.

Jennifer Franco, a researcher at the Transnational Institute, an international think tank in the Netherlands that advocates for social justice, said land grabbing has been going on for a long time and some of the increase is due to more awareness and reporting of it.

It's the fastest - growing spot on the planet, which inevitably means growing pains: «We're seeing a real rush, almost a feeding frenzy of foreign mining investment, and in some cases, land grabs.»

Some commented on events involving collective action, such as volatile demonstrations over government land grabs in Fujian province.

Also strengthen the foot with toe grabs and toe walking (land on foot, then roll up to the ball of the foot).

I can not even tell you how happy I was to have one land on my wrist and remain comfortably until the sweet employees gently grabbed it at the door and carefully placed it on the wall.

Cattle baron Clay Matthews is covertly masterminding stampedes of herds, hiring gunslingers for attacks on ranchers, cutting fences, grabbing lands - all part of a plan to establish a National Cattle Trail capable of handling a million - cattle drive from Texas to Canada.

Pretty much everything shown on - screen is crucial to being able to identify what's going on throughout each episode, so wandering off to grab a snack or checking your Facebook could immediately land you in a state of «what's going on?».

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

Angelina Jolie makes the biggest play, grabbing two more votes to land in the top 5 on her own (as Fincher drops out).

Abstract: I recently returned from an international solidarity mission to Cambodia, where so many of the issues that progressive rights - based civil society origanisations campaign on slap you right in the face: Land grabs: -LSB-...]

This IJNet blog on covering Massingir land grabs includes lessons in using new media techniques in remote areas.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is on the attack, launching a high - profile campaign against Gov. Gary Herbert over his so - called public lands «grab.»

... so the 1 %, who are pulling ALL of the CCSS and RTTT strings, and their lackeys in Washington and state capitals across the land can grab all of those billions and billions of public dollars spent on public education AND PRIVATIZE AMERICA»S SCHOOLS.

You don't need a trucking license to operate this behemoth, but the physique of a trucker would certainly help you get into its driver's seat; with your right foot planted firmly on the running board, one hand grabs the steering wheel as your other foot picks up momentum, swings upward, and lands inside the cabin.

I had drum brakes on my Land Rover (8», 10» single and twin leading shoe), and what you can try is to chamfer the leading edge of the friction material - only needs 1/8» depth 60 degrees - so that the shoe does not «grab» on first contact.

All you do is fly to Paris Orly, grab a rental car, and drive a couple of hours southwest on the toll expressways A10 and A11; add another 30 - 45 minutes if you land at Charles de Gaulle.

Jaguar Land Rover, which has been on the fringes of the Indian luxury car space, is estimated to have grabbed a market share of 13 - 14 % of the overall market, growing nearly 45 % in the first nine months of the calendar year becoming the fastest growing luxury car brand in India.