Land Grabbing

The current global food security controversy known as "land-grabbing" was sparked in Madagascar in 2008. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I can't really think of why somebody of Chavez 'principles would want to be grouped with a bunch of money-grubbing, land-grabbing, back stabbing, untrustworthy founder types and sleazy politicians of the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Accusations of land-grabbing tormented Brady; in 1924, he publicly issued a $1,000 reward to anyone who could prove that he benefitted from the Tulsa Race Riot. ❋ Adrian Margaret Brune (2011)

Meanwhile, there are more than enough energy projects in Burma that have potentially disastrous community and environmental and human rights impacts: the hydro dams on the Salween River, including the pipelines, massive Chinese agri-business ventures in the north that involve land-grabbing and semi-feudal working conditions, the Dawei Tavoy port project and industrial park in southern Burma, and the Kaladan River and road project being pursued by Indian firms in western Burma. ❋ David Scott Mathieson (2011)

"If there ever was a space to do some land-grabbing in, this is it," says Lahman, Gogii's CEO. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In practical terms, it probably will, which is undoubtably what Bibi and the land-grabbing faction in Israel is hoping for. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How 'land-grabbing' is wrecking lives, 19 March, page 85, Weekend. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The further argument is that the strategic character of settlement-building makes any independent Palestinian state non-viable, and that the settlers least likely to leave are in those land-grabbing ‘outposts’ that piss off Palestinians the most. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is no justification for land-grabbing – and after what the Palestinians have suffered under the Israeli occupation, there is no comparison!! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any system that produces enough food for the entire world and yet fails to feed one in seven people, which is subject to rampant speculation and land-grabbing, and where crops and land that could be used to feed people are instead turned into fuel for Hummers, is patently not working. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We have stood deaf, mute and blind as our motherland is raped by land-grabbing raiders and marauders from the Middle East to India. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

Overweight offerings like Yahoo portal don†™ t seem to really fulfill any need apart from offering Yahoo! execs the prospect of mobile land-grabbing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A member of parliament, he denies accusations by some locals that he has become a land-grabbing power broker. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)

It was a region from which chancing-it, boat-borne rapers and pillagers and land-grabbing alien invaders frequently emerged. ❋ Travis Elborough (2010)

She advocates for the rights of tenants in her constituency of Kampot and throughout Cambodia, investigating evictions and land-grabbing first-hand, listening to villagers 'stories, and supporting formal complaints. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I was really enjoying that issue until [Jean Grey] had an orgasm as the result of being [punched in the stomach], which seemed to turn her into Sandra Bullock for the next four panels. It's either a secondary mutation or a blatant [land grab]" ❋ Disgruntlor (2009)

A series of land grabs in [the Balkans] provided [the scene] for what was to become [World War 1]. ❋ Stuart (2004)

[Isreal]. They are a recognized nation but [siezed] land from [palestine] to build it. ❋ Badassfreakygangbanga (2004)

[Dammit]! While I was away, [Lord Wootsayediditagyn] attacked me with a land grab, stealing 50 [acres]! ❋ Alan Partington (2004)

[Israel] is being accused of a 'land grab' (Search for 'land grab' and Israel on Google Advanced). Then it was used regarding those wanting to control [airwaves] and recently for those wanting to control [Cyberspace]. ❋ Bill - Australian In Malaysia (2004)

Joe used to have only five [acres] of [property], but he made a huge land grab and now he has [fifty]. ❋ Athene Airheart (2004)

This is what [Israel] DID NOT do considering that [Israeli] land was bought for England [completely legally]. ❋ Alex (2004)

"Dude, you were [wasted] last night. [You should] have seen the 'land grab' you were [kissing]!" ❋ Mike S. (2004)

I [made out] with [Sheila] at the bar, and it turned into a land grab, but she stopped me before I could [get in] her pants. ❋ Allison (2004)

Keep your [troops] home [for now], we are gonna make a huge land grab [in a little] while. ❋ Argoth (2004)