Sentences with phrase «setting land mines»

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The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.

A High Court in Accra has set February 8, 2018, to give a ruling on an injunction application filed by Exton Cubic Limited, challenging the revocation of their mining lease by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister.

Stop - motion animation comedy about a resourceful cave man (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) who leads his tribe to defend their land from being taken over by another tribe that wants to set up a precious metal mine.

After 70 years of World War II being mined for cinematic stories, it would seem as if no fresh stories are left to be told — but writer - director Martin Zandvliet has managed to unearth «Land of Mine,» set in the immediate aftermath of the war.

Gist: Set in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he lovSet in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he lovset of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he loves.

Set in 1879, the small town of Rose Creek has been invaded by mining mogul Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), who's offered the citizens two options: take his paltry sum of money for their land or deal with the consequences when he returns in three weeks.

Also with Sony Pictures Classics, it's set after World War II and sees German POWs forced to remove land mines from Danish beaches.

Once home to steel mills, coal mines, glassworks, and factories that produced chains, locks, leather, nails, cast iron and similar goods, the Black Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and often...

China begins mining near Arunachal border: Beijing's quest for resources, land sets up clash with New Delhi

These fast - learning rodents, dubbed HeroRATs (which incidentally are too light to set off land mines), are being trained at the humanitarian organization APOPO to sniff out buried explosives.

Cooktown is not only known as the location that the English sailor Captain James Cook set foot on this land in 1770 but it is also known as the first white settlement location for new Australian's and also for the gold and tin mining booms that were thriving here between 1872 and 1907.

Golf fans can visit two of the area's top courses in northern Phuket: the Blue Canyon Country Club (23 km away) has two 18 - hole courses set on 730 lush acres of former tin mine land, and Mission Hills Phuket Golf Club (29 km) is an ocean - view Nicklaus Design course on the east coast.

Setting anti-tank mines or blowing up a fuel tank only stops land vehicles «temporarily» even though they should in all rights stop them permanently.

You'll have to set up mines to claim gold or destroy land to mine for diamonds.

It also does a few things differently, such as rewarding the player with money for making good plays and setting obstacles in the outfield, like land mines.

Elements of the work include wall text around war, imperialism, and democracy, historical footage of US militarization contrasted with the ruins of contemporary bases, forms of labor and production in the industries of mining, fishing, and banana plantation interspersed with interviews with workers, and a lush, dreamlike, and perpetually dissolving set of landscapes set against some of Dizon's own reflections on life, death, land, return and passage.

In the Northern Territory, «mining royalty equivalents» are paid into the Aboriginal Benefits Account (ABA) and distributed according to a formula set by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth).

Land Rights Act also sets benchmarks for mining on traditional lLand Rights Act also sets benchmarks for mining on traditional landland.

The [Native Title Act] sets up a real conflict of duty for many of our clients; the duty of prosecuting a claim to ensure that substantive rights and interests are recognised while simultaneously discharging their moral duty to their claim group to exercise procedural rights to negotiate fair compensation for mining on their ancestral lands.

- the right to negotiate was not a veto; - the timeframes set for notifications negotiation and arbitration are tight but fair; and - the Act imposed clear statutory rules for land use and did not set up complicated barriers to mining exploration and operations.

It is important because, while not a veto, it sets a reasonable standard of protection for Indigenous interests where exploration and mining is proposed on native title land.

In pursuit of these objectives the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Griffith University wish to conduct a forum in which Indigenous participants or representatives identify a set of issues that currently face Indigenous communities when mining companies seek access to their land or wish to develop a project on their land.