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Owned in sentence

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For instance, imagine that in 1900, you owned 100 acres of land someplace in the Midwest.
Part of my work now is really laying the groundwork to integrate urban ag and rural food systems to hasten the demise of the 3,000-mile salad by creating a national brand of urban-grown produce in every city, that uses regional growing power and augments it with indoor growing facilities, owned and operated by small growers, where now there are only consumers.
And then he describes the home he owned in their village.
He had just signed the contract to sell his New York apartment at a six-figure profit, and he'd only owned it for five years.
So we have a situation in the world today where in more and more countries the relationship between citizens and governments is mediated through the Internet, which is comprised primarily of privately owned and operated services.
The golf clubs were owned by John F. Kennedy and sold for three-quarters of a million dollars at auction.
The Indian government owned and operated all the TV stations.
And in fact, a World Bank survey revealed that 30 to 70 percent of assets owned by medical organizations in Africa are actually owned by faith-based organizations, but that there's very little collaboration between the faith community and public health-care systems.
And we know that most of it is currently owned by people we might call Westerners: Europeans, North Americans, Australasians.
Most people in rural North America owned some land by 1900.
In the 1980s, in communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government.
The store owned one of those machines that can print on plates of sugar.
This white guy popped up, and we found out that his great-great-grandfather owned slaves and my great-great- great-grandmother was one of them.
Gooseberry owned a patent for the creation and distribution of news releases via email.
So long as gold mines, oilfields and large farms in Africa continue to be owned by foreign investors and those vital resources are shipped to the West, the stream of African migrants will flow continuously.
See, he owned a chromium-plating company, and they had to move heavy steel parts between tanks of chemicals.
In the economic system in traditional Africa, the means of production is privately owned.
It's owned by extended families.
Sberbank, the largest and oldest bank in Russia, largely owned by the Russian government, has started practicing crowdsourcing, engaging its employees and citizens in the public in developing innovations.
And in those days, my hair was down to my waist, I drove a motorcycle, I was unmarried, I owned a bar, so those were different times.
And dictatorship meant that all the land was owned by a single ruler or by a small oligarch.
Thing is, it's owned by the city.
So effectively it's the first time there's been competition for this monopoly, because the utilities have been the only ones that owned those power distribution lines, but now it's on your roof.
20 years ago, the biggest personal data base in the world was not owned by NSA, neither by the Stasi, poor thing.
It was owned by Wal-Mart, the American supermarket chain.
This is MobSoft, one of the companies that this cybercriminal gang owned, and an interesting thing about MobSoft is the 50-percent owner of this posted a job advert, and this job advert matched one of the telephone numbers from the code earlier.
So I went to work for a commercial beekeeper, a family that owned 2,000 hives of bees in New Mexico.
A culture which is top-down, owned, where the vocal chords of the millions have been lost.
When I hear that story, I always imagine the folks from the Great Migration rolling over in their graves, because you can imagine that they didn't sacrifice moving from the South to the North to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American dream: steady work and a home that they owned.
There was a sort of idea really, that, if you owned a vase like this, then there was really only one fate possible.
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