• 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?

  • 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?

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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    CNN: HARD LANDING

  • 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

  • One clear way to start this process is through land-use policy.

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  • We had clear title to 480 acres of good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River not far from Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

  • 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

  • It wasn't clear how we were going to reach the Promised Land.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Dr. King's Legacy

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

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  • And again, to be clear, the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and over half of Americans are already living under its rules.

    NPR: Nearly Half The Country Doesn't Know Health Law Exists

  • Under the Kentucky system, any squatter whose claim went unchallenged for seven years, and who paid taxes on the land during that period, was eligible for a clear title to the property regardless of who had owned it previously.

    FORBES: America's Illegal Pioneers

  • Basso came well off his line to deal with Danny Butterfield's hopeful ball into the box but McCombe tried to head it clear, leaving his keeper in no man's land as Watson directed a superb looping header into the unguarded net.

    BBC: Bristol C 2-1 C Palace (agg 4-2)

  • 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

  • There are, however, doubts that Greece can realise its ambitions, partly because the absence of a land registry means that the government may not have clear legal title to all of the things it wants to sell, partly because it is not clear what price they could fetch, and partly because privatisation arouses political opposition at home.

    ECONOMIST: Greece has no good options left

  • 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

  • His bold statement might have been more of a publicity drive for Energia rather than a clear commitment to a program, but China, which has committed itself to a space program to land men on the moon by 2017 has also stated its interest in helium-3.

    CNN: Mining the moon for a nuclear future

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