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"land" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] the surface of the earth that is not sea
  2. [uncountable] (also lands [plural]) an area of ground, especially of a particular type or used for a particular purpose synonym terrain
  3. [uncountable] (also formal lands [plural]) the area of ground that somebody owns, especially when you think of it as property that can be bought or sold
  4. the land [uncountable] used to refer to the countryside and the way people live in the country as opposed to in cities
  5. [countable] (literary) used to refer to a country or region in a way that involves the emotions or the imagination

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"land" Synonyms
earth ground terrain surface terra firma solid ground dry land floor deck flooring terrene property acres realty acreage estate holding fields grounds landholding lands real estate demesne field homestead plot of land expanse lot manor ranch region area part section zone block division domain parts realm territory tract belt district neck patch sphere stretch vicinity country nation state commonwealth kingdom province fatherland motherland empire homeland republic sovereignty sovranty continent firm ground sure ground terra mainland coast coastline shore beach main landmass landfall island landform subcontinent soil clay dirt loam humus marl topsoil turf dust clod mold(US) mould(UK) silt mud sand compost subsoil provinces farms woodlands woods agricultural land back country backlands backwoods countryside farming farmland outback sticks great outdoors rural district wide open spaces middle of nowhere green area green belt dominion colony fief protectorate dependency farm farmstead grange plantation smallholding vineyard croft station farmhouse pen shamba tope steading landscape topography geography geomorphology chorography natural features profile contour going land shape home birthplace family hometown roots mother country cradle habitat household niche range Godzone background element mansion castle hall palace villa hacienda manse residence chateau seat house neighborhood(US) neighbourhood(UK) manor house home area holdings assets capital possessions stocks belongings bonds equities funds investments reserves resources savings securities stock valuables stocks and shares fortune biosphere environment atmosphere planet sea nature natural world ecosphere wildlife living world world ecosystem Mother Nature environs Gaia flora and fauna creation lakeside waterside bank water's edge oceanfront seaside shoreline waterfront seafront riverside seaboard strand riverbank lakeshore seashore lakefront sands get acquire bag obtain procure secure capture gain attain draw earn net win achieve catch grab hook collar garner nab arrive be reach settle appear come access enter report drop by show up turn up bob up check in come in get to make it pop in pop up pull in dock moor anchor berth drop anchor reach the shore come ashore go ashore make land come in to land come to berth disembark tie up put in harbour(UK) harbor(US) debark alight dismount descend light get off step off pile out step out arrive in port detrain leave deplane alight from touch down make a landing come down come to rest roost perch come to earth put down rest nestle sit set down stop settle down fall drop take down bring down make a landing with lead bring drive steer cause to land in cause to be in cause to arrive in saddle burden encumber laden impose load lumber tax trouble inflict lade thrust hamper weigh down dump something on someone weight freight charge impose on task deliver deal administer strike apply dispense exact fetch hit deposit give levy wreak deal out mete out serve out throw find provide contribute solicit supply furnish invent purvey come up with get hold of line up think of be responsible for cough up shipwreck founder wreck run aground be grounded be stranded be stuck be beached run ashore be on the rocks run on the rocks be high and dry wash up crashland collide crash ditch smash topple tumble pitch plunge plummet stumble slip trip dive collapse capsize overturn slump lurch stagger tip overbalance establish base instal(UK) install(US) root centre(UK) center(US) ensconce entrench erect implant set centralise(UK) centralize(US) lodge plant position buy corrupt bribe suborn fix square have lubricate nobble ransom buy off pay off get at keep someone sweet give an inducement to give someone a backhander give someone a sweetener grease palm oil palm influence territorial international local provincial regional national sectional areal zonal parochial county sectoral cantonal localized(US) devolved vernacular native terrestrial earthly earthbound continental earthborn land-dwelling surface-dwelling surface-dwelling earthly More
"land" Antonyms
sky blue atmosphere heavens airspace skies high stratosphere empyrean firmament ether blue yonder celestial sphere upper atmosphere upper regions vault of heaven welkin wide blue yonder wild blue yonder sea non-ecumene nonecumene wasteland barren wilderness heath wild heathland no-man's-land arid region barren land barren region desert dust bowl icy region lava bed sand dunes swamp uninhibited land ungoverned territory ocean deep briny water main seaway drink profound saltchuck waves brine foam sink bounding main briny deep deep blue high seas salt water river stream creek waterway channel estuary watercourse brook cascade flow rivulet runnel streamlet tributary beck canal course inlet spate billabong city metropolis urbanism borough burg burgh polis municipality capital megalopolis conurbation cosmopolis megacity asphalt jungle city life metropolitan area urban area whole peace unclaimed land terra nullius territorium nullius surrender yielding island cleanliness morality pureness purity sterility personalty disorganisation(UK) disorganization(US) forfeit lose relinquish sacrifice forgo miss yield abandon drop renounce disqualify withgo be deprived of be stripped of give up give over hand over lose out on part with depart leave launch ascend head take off go sail exit blast off fly off lift off clear out leave the ground take to the air take wing become airborne set off set out pull out board embark mount catch enter get on board go aboard go into go on board step aboard jump on climb on hop on get on be launched scale climb soar rise go up float up move up fly up arise fly get off rocket float move upward pilot control navigate aviate direct guide maneuver(US) manoeuvre(UK) operate steer wing circle coast glide hover plane drift hang prevent stop avert save block defend arrest desist halt thwart avoid cease check discontinue forfend foil intercept spare rescue free guard preclude protect safeguard shield deflect deter divert exempt circumvent dispense reprieve mistime misfire mishit fumble whiff fail fluff bungle slip overshoot undershoot err on fail to hit trip up on cost discourage dissuade give neglect pass spend give in throw away release detach exclude liberate loose loosen unfasten unhook unlatch unlock let go disentangle untangle misunderstand repulse disenchant accord cede bequeath grant hand offer proffer fork over give away discard forbear ditch dump render abdicate resign shed waive cast off hamper harm hinder hurt ruin setback weaken worsen cripple curb curtail delay destroy handicap hold up impede inhibit shackle confuse dislodge displace dry grow increase move remove trouble unsettle worry mix up lower discharge unchain disenthral disenthrall unfetter unloose unshackle untie unbind uncage unleash unmanacle let loose set free deliver cast loose disburden disencumber unburden unlade unload aid assist exonerate help relieve divide separate put to sea set sail ship out present provide supply impart provision serve transfer furnish ante up cough up fork out blunder flop fall bomb fizzle flounder fold flunk founder be unsuccessful fall flat fall short lose out miss the mark underperform languish retreat decamp retire vacate scoot split withdraw bail bolt book flit skedaddle scram pull moderate regulate hold restrain contain measure tame put out return restore replace retrocede reinstate carry back give back hand back put back send back uprise get up place put stand up straighten refuse decline reject dismiss rebuff turn down deny repudiate bypass eschew pass up pass on refuse to receive say no to set aside turn away turn back on turn from abstain from receive take collect cop get be given come into be in receipt of aerial aquatic arboreal epiphytic

352 Sentences With "land"

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It's celebrated in our earliest folk songs — "this land is your land, this land is my land" — and most of us take it for granted.
He divided his park into gloriously themed sections, like Car Land (well before Disney's Cars Land, thank you), Up Down and Around Land and, yes, Coaster Land.
The refuge is then surrounded by about half private land, and half Bureau of Land Management land.
Because no matter what Woody Guthrie's famous song says, this land is not your land or my land.
The parent provides CR Land with land incubation support in preparing prime land and large parcels for development.
They were subsequently re-named Adriatic Land Group 6 (GR1), Adriatic Land 3 (GR1), and Adriatic Land Group 4 (GR1), and their ownership was subsequently transferred to Adriatic Land.
Displaced Paharis were to be rehabilitated with land and housing, and a land commission was to resolve land disputes.
However clumsily, I had stumbled into the land of mystics, the land of my father, the land of Rumi.
If they have land or houses, and people are eyeing this land, people sometimes do it to grab this land.
Of these, owners of agricultural land were far more likely to update land records than those who owned residential land.
The Senate is looking for cheap land to develop, and much of the land occupied by Kleingärten is city land.
This Land Is Our Land , by Jedediah Purdy (Princeton) .
Chinese land is divided into urban and rural land regimes, granting ownership rights over urban land to the state while rural land is owned collectively and cannot be bought and sold freely.
The Garawa Land Trust has rejected fracking on their land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, but for land held under other types of leases there are no veto rights.
"If one or two farmers decide to sell off their land to builders, other farmers whose land borders that land also feel inclined to sell that land off, because they believe that raising of infrastructure around their land will make it uncultivable," Qayoom said.
"We are living in the land of the free, the land where anything is possible, the land of the immigrant's dream, the land with the storied past forgotten in the rush to the imagined future, the land that repairs and reinvents itself," he writes.
The EU competition enforcer will also scrutinise whether land transferred to Jaguar Land Rover for the project and a fee exemption for converting the land to industrial land complies with the bloc's rules.
We came back to our forefathers' land, our ancient land.
Land pooling enables the quick consolidation of small land holdings.
It was "This Land Is Your Land," by Woody Guthrie.
CR Land kept average land acquisition cost low in 1H16.
Instead, you hear things like: Our land and their land.
" Not quite the same as "This Land Is Your Land.
"Developers are very land hungry," with very little land-banking and very few government land sales set for this year, she said.
"Land is where we live, land is undergoing human pressure and land is part of the solution, but land cannot do it all," Hoesung Lee, the IPPC chairman, said at a news conference Thursday.
To them, besides the war, Syrian land was the same as the land of Russia, Argentina, or Gibraltar — just land belonging to God.
Land experts like George McCarthy, head of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, heralded the technological advances of high-resolution land cover maps.
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Tornadoes have traveled from land to water and water to land.
They land on poo, and then they land on your food.
Arcadia's landlords include British Land, Intu Properties, Aviva and Land Securities.
This Land Is Our Land , by Suketu Mehta (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) .
It was "This Land Is Your Land," not "America the Beautiful."
Land conservation groups promote easements as a way to preserve land.
You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible — you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land — we've become a third world country.
Jaguar Land Rover The company offers two hours at the Land Rover Experience Driving School for new owners of Land Rovers and Range Rovers.
Fires, many of which were started on purpose to clear land for farming, have burned indiscriminately — in parks, ranches, government land, and indigenous land.
The land that those settlers settle on is not their land, either.
People who love La La Land really, really love La La Land.
A technicolour choir of refugee girls sang "This Land is Your Land".
For Israelis, land for peace became land for suicide-bombs and rockets.
Arcadia's other landlords include British Land, Intu Properties, Aviva and Land Securities .
Mr. Sullivan is the founder of Marketing Land and Search Engine Land.
"We say the land should be valued as unoccupied land," he said.
Your land is now their land and your information is now theirs.
Cooperation Jackson started buying up land for its own community land trust.
Each mirror bears words: "your land" and "my land" in endless argument.
"They were living in unicorn land, in La-La Land," she said.
The planes used to go around and around -- 'Don't land, don't land.
Everything else on a Farmstead — the barn, the garage, the land, the animals on that land, the crops the land produced — belonged to the DAE.
If you compare the combination of grazing fees and land maintenance costs that ranchers invest to graze on public land to the single fee charged to lease private land for grazing – where the landowner does all the land maintenance for you – researchers find that ranching on public land is a more significant investment.
The study examined the three types of land use that define modern agriculture: land used for growing crops, land used for perennial forage crops such as hay and grain that could be used to feed livestock, and grazing land.
A new major U.N. climate report entitled "Climate Change and Land" details that human land use now impacts over 183 percent of the ice-free land on Earth; and pasturelands make up some 37 percent of this land use.
Payne told the UK Land Forum, a seminar on land and corruption, that publicly owned land registers were essential to fostering community trust and social stability and could be powerful tools to combat land corruption, particularly in developing economies.
Cimi said many were connected to land conflicts amid a lack of land rights and 847 unconcluded indigenous land claims filed over the last two decades.
This notion of land of the free and home of the brave was land of the free white people and land of the brave white people.
"We are living in the land of the free, the land where anything is possible, the land of the immigrant's dream," McCain insisted during his speech.
Taking land maintenance work into account, public land ranchers ultimately save the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than $750 million in taxpayer dollars each year.
The family manages their land, largely in Maine but also with some scattered holdings elsewhere, through their Seven Islands Land Company, according to The Land Report.
Lower land values would exactly offset the fresh incentive to sell vacant land.
If your plane needs to crash land, crash land in a potato field.
We are part of the land and the land is part of us.
"Some primary land prices have become more rational than secondary land," he said.
"This Land Is Our Land" is, in large part, a case for reparations.
Economists have proposed changes to the land-registration system and land-use policies.
Foreigners cannot buy land, but they can own the buildings on the land.
A similar suit challenging Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is pending.
To allow arable land to be cultivated safely, land mines must be removed.
Sauron is some pterodactyl villain in the antarctic jungle land called Savage Land.
So Horton not is only carrying less land on their books, but they are going 252% option land and 40% purchase land, which makes them much less asset-light because they're optioning so much land as apposed to buying it.
But the bill says that, when the state expropriates, it can provide no compensation only under these five circumstances: purely speculatively held land; land that has been abandoned; publicly owned land; land that has been donated; farms with labor tenants.
Under the land restitution program, about 200,000 hectares of land has so far been handed back, together with land titles awarded by judges, benefiting about 20,000 Colombians.
"We have also submitted RTI requests on military land holdings, land distributed by political parties and any compensation paid by the military for land acquisitions," he said.
The Land Reform Bill also aims to increase community land control by giving tenant farmers new rights to keep their land available for tenants when they retire.
"My solution is justice because this is the land of Israel, not the land of Ishmael - (it is) the land of the Jewish people," he told Reuters.
The land of opportunity is just another way of saying the land of winners.
There's something about being here and walking on this land, which is our land.
Land-grab victims often don't know who now owns the land they once farmed.
"Every time you take land for settlements, there is less land left," Trump said.
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 created land-grant universities across the country.
Shares of China Resources Land and China Overseas Land declined more than 1 percent.
The fastest animals on land roam and hunt across a wide expanse of land.
Some land rights activists, villagers and experts say aggressive rural land acquisition is commonplace.
If we say we're just protecting the land, who gets access to the land?
Starting with "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land" was a masterstroke.
Today, you'll have to walk from land to land in Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
Stationed on publicly owned land and tribal land, officers were tasked with apprehending subjects.
These people are so in love with the land, and that land is gorgeous.
They worked a little plot of land and on that land grew a harvest.
IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land: Land is under growing human pressure.
Forty acres of the property are protected land, part of Tasmania's land conservation efforts.
The Harding Land Trust, a nonprofit group, focuses on land preservation and water protection.
We day laborers work on the land, but we do not own the land.
Blue chip rivals Hammerson, British Land and Land Securities were also in the red.
"This is British land, and it will stay British land," she then told me.
The land includes 90,000 acres of land, 3,2000 residents, and two Four Seasons resorts.
The bad news about "Land of Mine" is that it's all about land mines.
"We won't let them destroy our land, the land where we have always lived."
This figure proved to include all land allocations, not only those of state land.
"The problem with land evictions in Indonesia is that nobody has a (land ownership) certificate," said Januardy, who specializes in land rights cases and represents the slum dwellers.
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A few states including West Bengal, Odisha and Karnataka have drawn up their own laws for land allocation, giving government land and excess private land to the landless.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the government issued what are now known as Peruvian Land Bonds to pay for land expropriated in a series of land reform initiatives.
The emergence of "land kings" - real estate developers who snatched land at record prices in land auctions - this year has triggered panic buying that in turn propelled prices.
Of course, some of the biggest land owners on The Land Report's list are more self-made and bought their land using wealth earned from other business ventures.
In 1985, the federation merged with the Emergency Land Fund, an organization dedicated to protecting black-owned land, to become the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund.
When the militia says things like "freeing the land," what it really means is less freeing the land from the BLM than it is in freeing the land from other ranchers (the sort that do actual ranching) who own leases on BLM land.
"Speculators are buying large areas of land, making land prices rise sharply," Nasution said, adding that the long-term goal of a new policy would be to make land ownership more balanced, to keep tighter control on land prices and lift state revenue.
Lorne MacLeod, chairman of Community Land Scotland, said putting land in the hands of communities allows them to use the land in the way that's most beneficial to them.
The graphics in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 eclipse those in Super Mario Land, and the game includes far better weapons and outfits for Wario to accessorize with.
The government could also offer swathes of land to foreign investors from the land banks it plans to create from unutilised land controlled by public sector enterprises, Kumar said.
There are more than 400 land-related conflicts raging across India currently, affecting more than 6 million people, according to Land Conflict Watch, which maps land conflicts in India.
"When women and men gain secure rights to land, they can begin investing in their land to improve their harvests and their lives," says the land rights group, Landesa.
Farmers are not motivated to take care of government land as they would their own land, and this makes government-owned farmland of lower quality than privately owned land.
The land our creators made for us, the land that our ancestors are buried in, is disappearing underwater with more and more centimetres of land slipping away every year.
Rosebud, just across the river from Oceti, lies on Army Corps land and reservation land.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh save -- the land of the free and the land of the brave.
Tanzania's national land policy aims to protect the customary rights of local communities to land.
Half of that land is set up as land trusts providing free or affordable housing.
And each time the company has attempted to land on land, it's been a success.
Shares of China Resources Land fell 2.6 percent and China Overseas Land slid 1.6 percent.
Still, the replacement of stamp duty land tax with the Land Transaction Tax on Apr.
Most land is held customarily with oral agreements between subsistence farmers and land-owning chiefs.
The parent supports CR Land by preparing prime land and large parcels for eventual development.
And land prices are falling, putting further pressure on those thinking about abandoning the land.
The update knocked 1.3%-2.4% off shares in rivals Land Securities, British Land and Hammerson .
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Which designer will land their dream job and which will land in the bargain bin?
This land is my land There are four places in the United States named Turkey.
Before this, Native Hawaiians did not conceive of land ownership but instead shared land communally.
" Pyongyang means "peaceful land" or "flat land," and Pyeongchang means "peaceful flourishing" or "peaceful prosperity.
Many talk about our land today, they say that they want to take our land.
This land, Trump fails to note or understand, is federal land — owned by all Americans.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has been a successful tool for land conservation.
He said accurate land maps would prove vital in answering key questions for land managers.
This is the land I know, the land that I worry is losing its heart.
"Every time you take land for settlements, there is less land left," Mr. Trump continued.
"It's occupying all the land, so it's reducing the productivity of range land," said Witt.
It moves between water and land, but spends half its time on land in burrows.
You know you belong to the land, and the land you belong to is grand.
We are less strangers in a strange land and rather strangers on our own land.
These solutions include eliminating land grabbing and land speculation through federal designation of public forests.
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To estimate where potential land concessions would be given away, the alliance compared satellite imagery of forested area with known government allocations of land suitable for plantations and inactive land.
This makes it easy for cartels to collude with land officials to create parallel titles for parcels of land they want to acquire illegally, public land being the prime target.
China will further regulate the land market by improving land auction rules and stabilizing land prices, said Jiang, speaking in Beijing on the sidelines of the annual session of parliament.
" They must answer the two "stakes" questions affirmatively: "Will you drive your stakes in this land, not the land of your origin?" and "Will you 'prize' what this land is?
Commercial land prices rose for a second straight year while the pace of decline in residential land prices slowed for a ninth consecutive year, the land ministry's annual survey found.
You take care of the land, the land will take care of you and your family.
Eventually, SpaceX wants to land reusable rocket stages on land and water after trips to space.
Not only is it for the land -- to protect the land -- and for these people here.
Under the guise of land reform and redistribution, millions of land-owning Chinese people were killed.
So far, all five of the company's attempts to land on land have worked just fine.
Though the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation is private land, its burial site is on public land.
When I first sighted land I wasn't sure it was land, but it must have been.
Land Replenishment Pressuring Leverage: Xinyuan has accelerated acquisitions after not purchasing any new land in 2015.
The Acholi have a customary land ownership system which recognizes seven categories of land, said Tebere.
Pérez was waiting for the state's new Land Restitution Unit to give him back his land.
So, essentially, it is people's land, and our land should not be given to property developers.
China's stance is this (is)land is my land, and we can do what we want.
There are nearly 600 conflicts over land across India, according to research firm Land Conflict Watch.
The term the staff uses over and over is "land" — will a piece of media land?
A heavier-than-air hybrid from Lockheed Martin can land on any flat land or ice.
Land scarcity and strict land ownership rules for foreign investors have discouraged offshore investors so far.
The classic folk song "This Land Is Your Land" may literally belong to you and me.
" That power dynamic is less clear with "We Shall Overcome" and "This Land Is Your Land.
Hong Kong has in the past increased land supply through reclamation and opening up farm land.
They can land on water or land, have folding wings and can be transported by trailers.
Obtaining this land wasn't a problem, because in China all land is owned by the state.
Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 23.5 percent of Idaho is public land.
The irrigation system reached 60,3303 hectares of land, around a quarter of Nineveh's potentially fertile land.
What we need is only some land where we can survive — and title to the land.''
Day turned deadly Friday marked Land Day, when Palestinian land was confiscated by Israel in 1976.
Just when and how did the mother cross the road from human-land to chicken-land?
This land is your land: The Senate may work on a federal lands package this week.
"Old land, wild land," is how a character called the Manan (Becca Blackwell) describes the view.
Traditionally, land management agencies have cooperated with private owners whose land provides access to national forests.
It also covers issues like land discrimination and the legal recognition of customary land tenure rights.
But I feel myself Belarusian, that I am in Belarusian land and this is my land.
Modern Land is tapping new land acquisition channels to boost its land reserves, including seeking more M&A deals, collaborating with governments on green housing, and cooperating with asset management firms.
While Nepal's Land Act of 1964 gave tenant farmers the right to own land and put a ceiling on landholdings, most agricultural land is in the hands of a few owners.
Clearing landmines makes land more valuable, so it can spark or inflame land ownership disputes that are difficult to resolve in the absence of a proper land registration system in Yemen.
And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is by all common sense and elementary school logic their land.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on land, announced in Geneva, takes on two complicated questions: how land use contributes to climate change and how climate change affects land.
Ensuring forest communities have secure land tenure, including collective land titles, and allowing them to decide how their land should be managed could help deter trafficking and slow deforestation, researchers said.
It also recommended the Land Claims Court be reformed to become the main expropriation body, and be given additional powers to adjudicate on all land related matters, including the calculations of the value of land targeted for appropriation and what rights affected land owners were entitled to.
"The land was federal land before the monument designation and if the boundaries of the monument are modified, the land would still be public land, managed by the agency that previously managed it," Heather Swift, press secretary for the Department of the Interior, wrote in an email.
It was among the first states in India to enact a land reforms law as early as 1955, to give land to poor tenant farmers and to impose ceilings on land holdings.
Of these, 17 are tied to land demarcation, including a proposal to allow the exploration of natural resources in indigenous land and a new framework for the land demarcation process, CIMI said.
The International Land Coalition also provides resources to increase land sovereignty, including a women's land rights toolkit and small scale farming and tenuring guides for Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
When land is that dry, vast amounts of furious rainfall can only be absorbed at a certain pace with the remaining water leaving the land quickly susceptible to mudslides and cascading land.
Transparency International said land acquisition has been used as a vehicle for money laundering in Nigeria and there have also been cases of foreign investors acquiring land without consultation with land users.
"We're looking for the right moment to land — it might land a week later, or it might land two years later," says Kori Schulman, the Deputy Director of Digital Strategy under Goldman.
The subcommittee's bill stopped short of severely cutting back on Interior's Land Water Conservation Fund, which moves some funding from offshore oil drilling royalties into land conservation and public land access efforts.
A land-value tax collects on behalf of society the value attributable to the land itself, while leaving owners to collect the returns on investments in the land, such as buildings, untaxed.
Its land bank remains low compared with 'B' rated peers, but in April the company completed its land bank replenishment needs in Beijing and Kunshan for 2016, mitigating further land-price surges.
The book value of MCUR is HKD4.4 billion, representing the land premium and original land-use rights.
That's what public land is: land that belongs to the public—me, you, every law-abiding American.
Outsiders are always coming in wanting to buy the land or use the land in certain ways.
On stage, Bernie was joined by Ezra Koenig to sing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."
Land is still transferred largely though inheritance, and it is almost always men who inherit the land.
When I went to Afghanistan, I saw a land that looked like the land of the Flintstones.
That's what public land is: land that belongs to the public — me, you, every law-abiding American.
Being so land hungry means cattle farming changes the climate; clearing land for pasture creates greenhouse gases.
However, "This Land Is Your Land" was written as a critical response to Berlin's more soaring song.
It's the land that I love — and the land that just can't seem to love me back.
Although it has grown in recent years, through extensive land reclamation, land values remain eye-wateringly high.
I don't necessarily know where we're going to land or what time we're going to land there.
Land records are gradually being updated and digitized as India moves toward a conclusive land titling system.
"Egypt does not sell its land to anyone and it does not take anyone's land," he said.
Property is expropriated, land records destroyed and much of the population uprooted from traditional land holding systems.
A higher valuation of the Daxing land, coupled with deleveraging of BCG's subsidiary, Beijing Capital Land Ltd.
Shares of Sino Land Co Ltd fell 1.99 percent and China Resources Land Ltd slid 1.73 percent.
The Land Rover InControl Touch Pro infotainment system is a big improvement over Land Rover's previous systems.
The same technologies used to land Schiaparelli will be used to land the ExoMars rover as well.
Many argue that developing brownfield land (land previously used for some industrial purpose) would solve London's problems.
"This bitter land is far too real/This bitter land, it does not heal," Ms. Badu sings.
Violence and threats made against land rights campaigners has also undermined gains made in land restitution efforts.
According to the Land Trust Alliance, 56 million acres of land have been conserved as of 85033.
Solid Land Bank: The company has a large low-cost land bank and an established domestic franchise.
"In the future we believe Dream Chaser will land anywhere a 737 jet can land, " Lindsey said.
BOISE Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 68 percent of Idaho is public land.
BOISE Note: Land owned by the Wilks brothers is defined as land parcels under DF Development LLC.
And then when you see land, the land looks nothing like anything you had ever seen before.
In case anyone cares, my favorite clue was probably "It doesn't need land to land" for SEAPLANE.
Temperatures over land are much more variable than those over water because land stores relatively little heat.
The breach was obviously because of the lowness of this land relative to the land around it.
Land conservation group Center for Western Priorities (CWP) criticized the sales of land adjacent to the monument.
The failure of "La La Land" to land even a SAG nomination is injurious but hardly fatal.
The president also reassured investors that the government's land reform policies would not result in "land grabs".
He needs land for the wall, and if he's not allowed to take the land, he's stuck.
We do know however, that many people experiencing poverty around the world are seeing an erosion of their main source of wealth—namely land, natural resources and homes – as a consequence of insecure land rights, land grabbing, land fragmentation and erosion, climate change, urban eviction and forced displacement.
China's residential land prices rose faster in the second quarter than in the previous three months, while those for industrial land posted slower growth, a report from the Ministry of Land & Resources said.
The average price of commercial land increased 21 percent in the year to July 2109.6600 after steadying in the prior year, according to the Land Ministry's broadest survey of nationwide land price trends.
Farmers in China hold the long-term rights to small plots of land, but technically can lose the right to that land if they move away or do not actively cultivate the land.
"Planning for long-term land use in land-scarce Singapore often requires us to make difficult decisions," the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said in a statement.
The Facebook founder has found himself in multiple land disputesUnder Hawaiian law, ancestral claims to land can often result in the title to a given plot of land having dozens of potential claimants.
In 1913, the California Alien Land Law made it illegal for immigrants from Japan and other parts of Asia to lease land or other properties, incarcerating and confiscating land from those who did.
"Land Bank was advised by Futuregrowth on Tuesday, 30th August 2016, of their decision to suspend lending activities to State Owned Entities including the Land Bank," the Land Bank said in a statement.
Because the amount of land is fixed, a land tax, unlike most other taxes, does not distort supply.
The dark blue uncertainty is around "LULUCF," the elegant acronym for land use, land use change, and forests.
The Giant Land Turtles: Torterra These mountain-y Pokémon look like turtles with land growing on their backs.
"This Land Is Your Land" is the culmination of Hayes's work, following a sweeping view of Guthrie's life.
Each dot is color-coded to represent a different land use — like forest land, farmland, pavement and buildings.
Fifty years after the six-day war, forget about land for peace: the issue is land for democracy.
A land-value tax might seem like an enticing prospect to those harmed by high land values today.
Land acquisition also slowed, with a total land premium of CNY127m in 7503H16, compared with CNY857m in 2015.
"There is enough physical land; there is not enough tradable land with clear property rights," said Ijjasz-Vasquez.
Women are particularly affected by unequal access to land and hold far less land than men, Oxfam said.
But the land of the dazzling northern lights and multicolored mountains is also the land of steep prices.
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Land owners get back a share of developed land, while the state keeps the remainder for its use.
Garcia favors land reform initiatives already in place that redistribute land classified as "unproductive" to the rural poor.
Sheeran will appear in a musical-themed episode titled "Haw-Haw Land" — a dig at La La Land.
Ultimately, the company expects to land one-third of its rockets on land, and the rest at sea.
Rural land rights should be privatised; just as urban land rights have been privatised in all but name.
A key weakness for Xinyuan is its need to constantly replenish its land bank amid rising land costs.
The episode itself is titled "Haw-Haw Land" and is a musical-themed parody of La La Land.
While few question the ESA's authority over public land, it's authority over private land is still legally murky.
"This is private land and we do not believe the land owner has any involvement," Dwyer told CNN.
Isn't that what visiting a speck of land divorced from a larger speck of land is all about?
It borders the Navajo Nation and a large swath of  land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
"We don't have a high land premium policy, so we sell land according to market conditions," Chan said.
The threat of that encroachment underscored the need to save the land, the Trust for Public Land said.
Colombia's peace accord pledges to improve access to land for women farmers through a land bank and subsidies.
Shares in property peers British Land Company and Land Securities also rose 1.6 percent and 1.1 percent respectively.
Many of the 62 families that inherited their land have been massive land owners for over a century.
Tribal custom dictates that chiefs are the custodians of communal land, and responsible for allocating land to villagers.
With a land value tax, the government would instead be raising money based on the size of land.
They were not permitted to leave the land and were subject to regular beatings from the land owners.
It is a slim stretch of land connecting North and South America -- a string of land between continents.
If you land a triple spin in competition last year, you want to land a quadruple this time.
Smithson wrote well about land art, but not about land; the dirt, geological makeup, flora, fauna, watersheds, etc.
"To them, it is a priority to defend their land rather than liberating others' land," Mr. Sheikhmos said.
This is the rule of war in the world: if you've captured any land, that land is yours.
"Hallelujah to the land where I was born," one of her poems, titled "Song to my Land," reads.
Nowhere did he note that we should be concerned about this American land, because it is American land.
Individuals that depart could land at organizations that KPMG currently serves or wants to land as a client.
Gluck said disputes over land ownership and a lack of clarity over land tenure documents were compounding problems.
The land minister is suing him, the prefectural government is countersuing the land ministry, and the construction continues.
Yet opponents of the grazing bill say such a move - forcing farmers off their land and giving it to the Fulani - would defy Nigeria's land laws, under which all land belongs to the state.
"We need to revisit constitutional provisions which allow for the expropriation of land with just compensation, as opposed to fair compensation, and look at foreign ownership of land, especially absentee land owners," Geingob said.
"Ironically, the attempt to make land rights more secure had the unintended consequence of making land rights insecure for the majority of households ... and is the historical root of current land inequality," Vechbanyongratana said.
Another factor behind the land revival is that some land sales removed a requirement that part of the land developers buy must be set aside for rental housing, which could delay returns on investment.
Highlighting the environmental costs of land degrading agricultural practices can also spur more sustainable land management, in addition to implementing financial incentives for farmers and businesses to use land and manage soil more efficiently.
The average size of land holdings in rural India has halved over the past two decades as land is passed down from father to son, and as more land is surrendered for development projects.
"The central land acquisition law makes it very difficult to acquire land and delays important projects," said Pradeep Kapoor, a chief town planner for Rajasthan, which passed a land pooling law earlier this year.
Under a historic land restitution law passed five years ago, the government of Juan Manuel Santos has handed back 2000,000 hectares of land, together with land titles awarded by judges, benefiting about 20,000 Colombians.
"Families and communities of Utah know and love this land the best, and you know the best how to take care of your land and how to conserve this land," Trump said last year.
The idea of Canada as the promised land for embattled Americans — the land of the free, only freer — started among the people for whom America wasn't the land of the free to begin with.
It is among the latest transfers of private land into residents' hands under the Scottish Land Reform Act of 2003, which gave communities first right of refusal when land was put up for sale.
It also made obtaining land occupancy certificates time-consuming and costly, contributing to the country's large informal land market, found a report on land tenure in Nigeria by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
So, as compared to a land farm in let's say a country like Vietnam or Cambodia where land is plentiful, you probably need just one plot of land, two hectares and one single connection point.
At least 22 of almost 500 conflicts related to land across the country are due to CAF plantations, affecting 38,000 forest dwellers and covering 110,000 hectares of land, according to research group Land Conflict Watch.
A Task Force on Land Supply, including senior officials, academics and experts, has spent more than a year analyzing how to resolve the land crunch but has only a "rough estimate" of such land banks.
Besides, a large portion of Evergrande's land was acquired in the last few years, after land prices had increased in major cities, which would mean higher land costs for projects it sells in the future.
Blockchain would help by making all land records publicly available online and eliminating multiple titles for the same piece of land, said Peter Tole, head of Land Layby Group, a Nairobi-based real estate firm.
"More land is being acquired for industry by the government, sometimes forcefully, while per capita land available is declining," said E.A.S. Sarma, an activist and former bureaucrat who has campaigned against several land-acquisition projects.
"Families and communities of Utah know and love this land the best, and you know the best how to take care of your land and how to conserve this land," he said at the time.
The former director of the Bureau of Land Management "stood to benefit personally" from a 28503 agreement to sell public land to a Nevada land developer looking to build a sports complex outside Las Vegas.
In addition to the electric boats (similar to wide, flat pontoon boats), the property has one electric Land Cruiser and three electric Land Rovers, with plans to convert the remaining seven Land Cruisers later on.
According to one type, character was forged by tilling the land; according to another it was forged by being tested by the land; and in another it was formed by being cleansed by the land.
A Task Force on Land Supply, including senior officials, academics and experts, has spent more than a year analysing how to resolve the land crunch but has only a "rough estimate" of such land banks.
Telangana and other states are racing to digitize land records as part of the national land records modernization program.
Shares of China Resources Land eased 0.5 percent but those of China Overseas Land ended nearly 1 percent higher.
Conflicts related to land have risen in India as demand for land for industrial and development projects has grown.
Guthrie's songs, notably "This Land Is Your Land," are still folk favorites (albeit with their radical lyrics sometimes truncated).
That is, the federal government owns more submerged land than the total amount of land in the 50 states.
According to an official land registry, the building and land around it are worth 324.2 million rubles ($5 million).
The Hammonds were convicted of arson in 2012 for setting fire to public land adjacent to their ranch land.
The report said land seizure without payment is one of several of land acquisition strategies available to the government.
By law, community land can only be sold or transferred with the approval of elders and government land officials.
The Islamists' mental cartography is binary: "Dar el-Islam, Dar el-Koffr" — Land of Islam versus Land of Impiety.
Parachutes deploy to gently land the capsule, while the rocket reignites its engine to land upright on the ground.
It has been merged into Elbit's land division, making it among the top five companies for land-based systems.
But there's no authoritative tracking of land prices, even though the price of land is of fundamental economic importance.
It is this demand for land that is causing the conflict; but where else will we go for land?
"Some land owners don't lease out their land because they are afraid tenant farmers will claim ownership," said Haque.
In recent months, renewed violence against land rights campaigners threatens to undermine gains made in Colombia's land restitution efforts.
Across India, more than 700 land disputes affect nearly 8 million people, according to research firm Land Conflict Watch.
The legislation includes provisions related to recreation, access to land and indefinitely extending the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Conflicts over land rights often erupt in India as the country seeks more land for industrial and development projects.
A May 2015 report, commissioned by the European Parliament, investigated land grabbing and cited "dubious land deals" in Hungary.
For Friday's launch, SpaceX will again try to land the booster, on a floating platform instead of on land.
Land records in most Indian states date back to the colonial era, and most land holdings have uncertain ownership.
The Bureau of Land Management is looking to write rules for methane leaks at drilling sites on federal land.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) helps state and local governments secure land for parks and wilderness areas.
Plantations cover almost a third of the land area in Malaysia and 13 percent of the land in Indonesia.
The transaction, HNA's first land acquisition in Hong Kong, was one of the most expensive land deals in 2016.
They couldn't work the land because they didn't know how and because the land was almost impossible to cultivate.
Hydoo's large land bank of 10 million sqm available for future development gives it flexibility in cutting land purchases.
John Manthorpe, who was Chief Land Registrar for more than a decade, is among opponents of Land Registry privatization.
Under a program of land reform, forced land seizures from white farmers resulted in serious economic and social consequences.
The canal will cut through that land, as well as land around nearly two dozen different villages and neighborhoods.
While some would gain from the rise in land prices, many Indonesians don't own the land they live on.
"I had land there, beautiful land," the indigenous community leader said, her hushed voice beginning to crack with emotion.
IDAHO CITY BOISE Land owned by the Wilks brothers Public lands Nearly 68 percent of Idaho is public land.
The jungle that had stood on this land was replaced by open savanna — grazing land for its 400 cattle.
It also tested a land-to-land Pukguksong-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile in February, and again in May.
Land value can fluctuate, making it difficult to assess whether such a dramatic increase in land price was reasonable.
It was held on Palestinian Land Day, which commemorates the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in Israel in 1976.
Conflicts over land in India have increased as the economy expands and more land is sought for industrial use.
However, a majority of Americans in Western states, home to vast tracts of federal land, support maintaining public land.
" Later, Taylor yells, "I'm glad I found I-I-Land or Two-Land, or whatever the fuck it is!
Both of the camps are on Wet'suwet'en land, and are occupied by Wet'suwet'en land defenders and supporters year round.
We believe that Fiji is the promised land hidden in the Bible, beautiful and pristine land blessed by God.
What do we have invested in this land, which is "our land, from California to the New York Island"?
He effectively lost his land in 1996, when he was sued by neighbors after a land dispute, Kinyera said.
This "results in the land covered by sunlight having greater area than the land covered by darkness," NOAA explains.
This promise was made long ago to the First Peoples of this land in exchange for land and peace.
Lawmakers scuttled the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) "Planning 2.0" rule, a measure to modernize federal land management strategies.
In fact, the agency can offer up mineral and energy rights by leasing federal land or approving land swaps.

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