If the control of Padang's parent company went to a foreigner, Ibrahim warned, he would take the land back.
With Chile unlikely to hand the land back, a corridor linking Bolivia to the sea appears to be the only realistic option.
It hopes to recruit more local farmers to turn their riverside land back into salt marshes, which can still be used for grazing.
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The only promise Mr. Hua extracted, verbally, was that the township would not take the land back for the duration of the lease.
"I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.
But the strength of the passions involved may mean that there is no other choice: unless, that is, both sides decide to give the land back to the Marines.
Apart from the sanction of social disapproval in the diaspora, those who do not pay find it hard to buy or keep land back home, or to get their passports renewed.
Today we have to purchase our lands back and we have this process of putting our land back into trust (inaudible) or trust process, and that's a long process that is there.
When I talk about flooding of land with none Dutch and I tell them we live under sea level and that one day the sea will take the land back were my house is standing on now.
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In the 1990s, WWF started a process in densely populated Netherlands that against all odds transformed 100, 000 hectares of agricultural land back into nature in a joint effort with farmers, corporations, homeowners, government agencies, environmentalists, and others.
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"Also, after five years, we'll return the land back to its owners in exactly the same condition as we got it, and then the community can decide if it wants a more permanent retail space there, " he says.
The government reckons the schemes it has approved in the past three years are responsible for creating about 50, 000 jobs, building 2m square metres of industrial and commercial floorspace and bringing about 1, 500 hectares of land back into use.
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Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch the the modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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"Throughout the tsunami zone people's attachment to land stretches back thousands of years, " says Price.
Even the more secular settlers invoke historical ties to the land going back to biblical times.
We no longer had to cross no-mans-land from back roads into the underground garage to avoid snipers.
Or do we move like the amphibians that moved to the land way back in our evolutionary past?
Clayton reservoir, which was built in 1884 under land in Back Lane, Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, was sold at auction by owner United Utilities.
Also, land is back at the centre of West Bengal's electoral politics but this time, it is the TMC that holds the trump card.
If they are based on whatever the product owner happens to think, based on his gut feel, without testing, we have moved out of the land of Agile and we are back in the land of arbitrary command-and-control.
Community compulsory purchase which would help communities to put vacant land and buildings back into use.
Northamptonshire County Council said it wants to build new offices on derelict land at the back of County Hall.
Native claims on timber and mining land have held back investment.
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Mr Paisley jnr said that his lobbying had been in the best interests of the public purse and of his constituents who are hoping to buy back land taken over by government more than 30 years ago.
The land formerly occupied by the travellers was supposed to be turned back to green belt land.
The new state government took back the land in June to return it to farmers.
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