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Landowner in sentence

58 examples of Landowner in a sentence

Since time immemorial, the law had said, you can't fly over the land without permission of the landowner, so this flight must stop.
What I want to point the finger at is the legal and regulatory system, a system in which there are networks of agreements just like this one which serve to silence people and seal off data points from public health experts and epidemiologists, a system in which regulators will even refrain from issuing a violation notice in the event of pollution if the landowner and the gas company agree to settle.
The island is inhabited by a landowner, a scientist (Joseph Cotten) and his daughter (Barbara Bach).
Sure enough, it turns out that the landowner is making the scientist create a race of fish-men.
Soon, the landowner is trying to sell this plot of land, and the citizens of the shantytown have to protect themselves.
I could easily mope around and lament about how upset it makes me that the white actor was always portrayed as a wealthy landowner or action hero, and cite just as many examples as he does.
When challenged to get the first $100.00 from Mr. Tanner (Jon Cypher) the rich landowner, the task become an impossible quest as Tanner has no intention of giving Valdez anything, but contempt, torture and pain.
For a landowner, the value of cleared land works out to $300 per hectare on average.
One rainy night, Baba Amte, the son of a wealthy Indian landowner, encountered a dying leper.
Instead, farmers access property through informal agreements with a chief or a landowner.
But once cocoa trees stop producing after 30 years or so – or sooner if disease strikes – farmers must obtain permission from the original landowner to replant.
His goal was to expose the fallacious arguments used to block reforms like the abolition of “rotten boroughs” – electorates with so few electors that a powerful lord or landowner could effectively select the member of parliament, while newer cities like Manchester remained unrepresented.
According to Hoover, mining rights were a “never-ending contention,” as old as economic and civil conflict, among four principal classes – overlord, state, landowner, and miner.
After the fall of the regime, land ownership claims from before 1979 remained void, and the state remained the sole legal landowner.
CHAPTER IXTHE NEGLECTED OLD PALAZZO with its high stucco ceilings, its wall frescoes and mosaic floors, with heavy yellow damask hangings at the big windows, vases standing on brackets and mantelshelves, carved doors, and sombre halls filled with pictures, – that palazzo, when they had moved into it, by its very appearance kept alive in Vronsky the pleasant delusion that he was not so much a Russian landowner and equerry without a post as an enlightened connoisseur and art patron, and withal a modest artist himself, who had renounced the world, his connections and ambitions, for the sake of the woman he loved.
It is only so that I can make a return for the advantages I enjoy as a landowner.
The role he had chosen, that of a rich landowner – one of those who should constitute the kernel of the Russian aristocracy – was not only quite to his taste but, now that he had lived so for half a year, gave him ever-increasing pleasure.
Koznyshev read the Act aloud, and began to explain its meaning, but a tall, thick-set, round-shouldered landowner with a dyed moustache, wearing a tight uniform the high collar of which squeezed up his neck at the back, interrupted him.
Vote!'At this several voices were heard, and the tall landowner with the ring, growing more and more spiteful, shouted louder and louder; but it was impossible to make out what he was saying.
I soused him,' said the landowner who had been to fetch him, approaching Sviyazhsky.
In three years he could not collect it,' – a short, round-shouldered landowner with pomaded hair that hung down on the embroidered collar of his uniform was saying energetically, stamping loudly with the heels of the new boots he had evidently put on specially for this occasion.
'I always advised Mary Semenovna to let her estate, because she will never make it pay,' said a pleasant-voiced landowner with a grey moustache, wearing the uniform of Colonel of the former General Staff.
It was the landowner Levin had met at Sviyazhsky's house.
The landowner also recognized Levin and they shook hands.
'Oh, still the same – with a loss,' replied the landowner as he stopped beside Levin, with a resigned smile and a look of calm conviction that it must be so.
The landowner looked at him.
I will tell you, moreover,' and leaning his elbow on the window and having started talking, the landowner went on: 'My son has no taste at all for husbandry.
'I'll tell you something,' continued the landowner.
'You are married, I hear?' said the landowner.
The landowner smiled under his grey moustache.
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