How To Use Land grant In A Sentence
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Despite a Sportscotland grant for a new full-time coach, the job could be one of the first victims of the cuts.
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Malone's purchase of the Bell ranch marks the transfer of a storied parcel that Pablo Montoya obtained via land grant from the Mexican government in 1824.
America's Biggest Landowners
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The princes maintained few paid officials rewarding their administrators with land grants instead.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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A city of southern California, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. It is located on part of the first Spanish land grant in the area (784). Population, 80,038.
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The princes maintained few paid officials rewarding their administrators with land grants instead.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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Most western towns were created by the railroad land grant companies.
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The core group excludes several private colleges and universities as well as some public institutions that produce agronomy and crop science graduates but which are not part of the land grant system.
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The two most appropriate parallels are the government's redemption of "continentals" - paper money issued by the colonies during the Revolutionary War - and the Yazoo land grants.
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Maxwell land grant case, which he characterizes as a wanton and shameful surrender to the rapacity of monopolists of 1,662,764 acres of the public domain, on which hundreds of poor men had settled in good faith and made valuable improvements.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
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The prime movers behind conventional agriculture in the United States have been the land grant colleges, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and more recently large agribusiness firms.
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Besides epigraphical reports talking of land grants and agreements on the oil supply to the temple, the book also proves the existence of the Sabha in the distant past, which laid down elaborate procedures for punishment for crime.
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The woodland grant scheme was introduced in 1988 to encourage landowners to switch from planting commercial plantations of foreign firs, such as Sitka spruce, to a mix of native pine and broadleaf.
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His hoped-for surveys in the Ohio Company land grant were frustrated by the failure of the company to establish itself there.
George Washington’s First War
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Additionally, his support of the Homestead Act and the Morrill Land Grant College Act made it easier for farmers to obtain land and further their agricultural tinning.
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To our understanding, it's a send up of the cultural gravitas and humorless puffery we attach to books, seen through the story of a teenage girl whose wealthy parents commission a novel about her in order to land grant her bibliophilia.
Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion
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To get a land grant was a better return than anything provided by Medicare to latterday medicos.
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My political science minor might have come from a third-tier land grant university but I'm not even that dumb.
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The railroad land grants were a gift the size of California plus the major part of Montana.
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It provides the only surviving record of some transactions, and it contains proprietary land grants, certificates of admeasurements, wills, leases, releases, and other documents.
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Right about this time, in 1693, England granted royal minter Thomas Neale a patent to run the American post office.
The King's Best Highway
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A government land grant to the settlers and hard work soon brought prosperity to the family, an effect that the Professor credits to Allah's bounty.
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The colonial authorities encouraged Spanish and indigenous settlement in the area with incentives of formal viceregal land grants (mercedes reales) awarded by the Crown.
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Land grants were obtainable from the Spanish Government by proving priority of claim, but the concession was only given after wearisome delay, and sometimes it took years to obtain the title-deeds.
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Finland granted its own currency, the markka, within the Russian Empire.
