• As a result, Indonesia's government has made it illegal to clear land in this way.

    ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?

  • For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.

    ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?

  • With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.

    CNN: 7.0 quake hits Haiti; 'Serious loss of life' expected

  • Earlier, MGI research found that product market regulations, the lack of clear land titles and pervasive governmental ownership were preventing India from achieving 10 percent annual GDP growth.

    FORBES: A Richer Future For India

  • The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.

    ECONOMIST: Will the neighbours ever dare to penalise the polluters?

  • The council cabinet met on Thursday, the day after the deadline, and decided to take "direct action to clear the land" if the travellers did not leave voluntarily.

    BBC: Waltham St Lawrence Gypsy families served eviction notice

  • With Israel demanding the impossible, and with the Palestinian street in ferment as Israeli bulldozers clear the land for the Har Homa settlement, it may not be a bad idea for the old survivor to be far away.

    ECONOMIST: Vanishing peace

  • With Iran calling the shots for the Palestinians, it is clear that any land Israel vacates will fall under Iranian control.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's Arab cheerleaders

  • The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has warned that conditions are "clearly unsuitable" for controlled burning, which is used to clear areas of land.

    BBC: Wildfire

  • People should have clear title to their land and houses, and they should be able to buy and sell them without encumbrance.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Since very little Haitian land has clear title, much of the area around Port-au-Prince is now occupied by squatters who resist eviction.

    ECONOMIST: Haiti's earthquake

  • The oil money is going to come in handy in the Conservancy's efforts to protect land from clear-cutting, strip malls and other heavy development.

    FORBES: Eco-Pragmatists

  • Some grain analysts say U.S. farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres this year to bring supplies back to more comfortable levels, but it is far from clear where so much land would come from.

    WSJ: Grain Prices Soar as U.S. Slashes Outlook

  • For months, a unit led by Captain Dan Kearney holds an outpost high in the Korengal Valley that gives the soldiers a clear view of the land below, but the impression of force exerted without purpose is overwhelming.

    NEWYORKER: Restrepo

  • As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).

    CNN: Biofuel: Green savior or red herring?

  • There is no substitute for this great land and the clear lead it can give.

    FORBES: Margaret Thatcher Predicted The Failure Of The Euro In Forbes, October, 1992

  • Lack of clear-cut policies on land acquisition and a multiplicity of authorities and bureaucratic hurdles often lead to delays in the implementation of industrial and infrastructure projects in India, creating an obstacle to economic growth.

    WSJ: IMF: India Should Resolve 'Bottlenecks' in Power, Infrastructure for Growth

  • Luo Liang (played by a young man of the same name) is the driver and bagman for a big-time developer, Boss Peng (Peng Deming), who turns to strong-arm tactics when his attempts at bribery fail to clear restive peasants from their land.

    NEWYORKER: Good Cats

  • So I think what's clear here, again, is that we are -- hold on, we are about to land -- what's clear here, again, is that we're focusing so much on an ad that has not run yet, that is done by an outside group.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • "Most of these seeds are headed to the same land that I helped clear, " Sena says.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Others have to land at Narita, clear customs and then fly to Haneda.

    CNN: HARD LANDING

  • That agreement, he said, makes clear the vast majority of the land was to be a campus, not a commercial development.

    WSJ: Donated Land Is Battlefield

  • In early August Chesapeake unilaterally voided the Continental lease, on grounds that Continental didn't have clear rights to enough of the land.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • At that time, he was lowered by helicopter to the roof of the World Trade Center to help clear an area for helicopters to land, Andersen said.

    CNN: Marines honor fallen members of armed forces

  • At this time, though, and in this blighted place, Satellite is a leader of children who go out every day to clear the farmers' fields of land mines.

    WSJ: Sinking Spirits

  • It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The business Zionism never got round to finishing was to hammer out a clear relationship between nation, state, land and religion.

    ECONOMIST: Israel at 50

  • The MB's own documents - including a number of those introduced into evidence by the Justice Department in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation prosecution - make clear that this international Islamist organization seeks to impose its politico-military-legal doctrine of shariah on our country.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's Legacy

  • But now it is clear that not all polar bears return to land.

    BBC: Polar bear sanctuary on iceberg

  • The owners of Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club have not made it clear what they want to see on their land.

    BBC: Bali looks to 'Ground Zero's' future

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