How To Use Unowned In A Sentence

  • We feel that those who care for cats -- both animal advocates and the 10 million householders who feed stray cats -- and those who care for birds would agree that we must find a humane way to reduce the number of unowned and homeless cats. Wayne Pacelle: Report Calling for Killing of Feral Cats Is Dangerous Shot in the Dark
  • In the almost lottery-like scramble for the ownership of vast unowned natural resources, and in the exploitation of which there was little or no competition of capital, (the capital itself rising out of the exploitation), the capable, intelligent member of the working class found a field in which to use his brains to his own advancement. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
  • Because the office refrigerator is unowned by any individual, no one feels responsibility to take care of it, and certainly no one wants to take time out of his or her busy workday to do so.
  • The allotment is a little portion of private terrain, unowned, but shared and self-governing, a sort of miniature commonwealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first it was patches and sections of land here and there; but as the weeks passed it was the unowned portions that became rare, until at last they stood as islands surrounded by Daylight's land. Chapter XVI
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  • So somebody dumped waste in Somali waters and somebody else "stole" the unowned fish. You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up....
  • At this point, our rules for unowned property come into play: namely, that unowned resources become the property of the first people possessing them.
  • Otherwise, 'if fish are left unowned they will be plundered to extinction'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second, there are vast unowned areas of the United States; if immigrants enter these, there can be no question of trespass.
  • As is the case with any incident within the arena of public or unowned property, be it public goods or public services, the involved parties in the paparazzi-celebrity case face a conflict of interests.
  • They cross the country as though it were unowned, and the thrill of jumping is not - as so many people imagine - merely an equestrian experience.
  • Start thinking of property as all the property of individuals, unjustly acquired property or unowned property. It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Disregarded in this analysis, however, is the point made earlier in connection with the right of publicity - the potential congestion cost if valuable property is unowned.
  • This body of unowned material is, like Crown land, water, and air, an essential part of Canada's riches - spiritual and material.
  • Just why, because an individual owns himself and thus that anything he produces means that he also owns ‘previously unowned natural resources,’ that is, owns land, is not clear.
  • The whole continent is unowned and has no permanent population, and as such it offers a more complete form of escape than anywhere else on the planet.
  • No fences at all to be seen… no cattle… huge groups of rocks… hundreds of miles of seemingly unowned and uncultivated land.
  • The indulgence shewn by the Public to Evelina, which, unpatronized, unaided, and unowned, past through Four Editions in one Year, has encouraged its Author to risk this SECOND attempt. Cecilia
  • Of the unowned animals, an estimated 40 million are socialized, or comfortable around people; more than 20 million have had no human contact and are wild, or feral.
  • This scheme is Otsuka's response to Locke's proviso governing the appropriation of unowned resources.
  • Even if their great-grandfathers could still find such unowned pieces of property, it is clear that they have failed to leave ‘enough and as good’ for their descendants.
  • Remember, though, that if you come up with a new agreement, for it to generate value as quickly as the Internet itself did, it needs to be open, unowned, and for everyone.
  • This is acceptable to Nozick since untalented people would have starved anyway had the land remained unowned.
  • Lord Romilly's preliminary ruling sent a clear message to all landowners eyeing parcels of seemingly unowned land - commons, wastes, heaths and greens - with intent to develop, exploit or add them to their existing holdings.
  • Arguably, a clear and straightforward theory of how an unowned resource comes legitimately to be owned had to wait till Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.
  • Law The act of taking possession of previously unowned property with the intent of obtaining the right to own it.
  • Can I fence off an arbitrarily large area of unowned land and claim it as new property?
  • The ultimate expression of owned space: the city - where public space has to be labelled as public - reaches such a fine grain because of transaction fluidity that it essentially becomes unowned again.
  • Time for a complete house cleaning, replace them all with unowned independents this next two times around. Poll: Pennsylvania's fall Senate race all tied up
  • But maybe things are different in other states, and their airports are in some kind of unowned status whereby state law would not apply? The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges for the White House State Dinner Crashers?

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