They occupied a land long since transformed by European contact.
For example, should companies be forced to pay for the clean-up of contaminated land, even though they polluted the land long before the relevant environmental regulations were in place?
The Times insists it is paying full freight for its 99-year lease on the land and that the land has long been scheduled for condemnation by the state anyway.
Deal-maker Jack Wishna, who was helping the singer land a long-running show in Vegas, told CNN the singer would appear "drugged up" and "incoherent" -- often so weak and emaciated he had to use a wheelchair to get around.
Scott Boras, who is trying to land a long-term deal for veteran slugger Manny Ramirez (few think he'll get it), points to the long-term television and sponsorship deals that, he says, insulate the industry from the economic woes surrounding it.
Why a nose ever became so long and flexible in a land animal has long been a mystery.
This time, my goal was to move to New Zealand: the Land of the Long White Cloud.
America has long land-borders with Canada and Mexico, and tens of thousands of miles of coastline.
Germany, of course, is nearer to Poland than Britain is - it shares a long land border, so migrants can return and spend more easily.
Farmers, ranchers and other land users have long grumbled about this.
If a country has a long land border, like the United States, or coasts temptingly near poorer countries, like Italy, its best hope is internal enforcement.
Thousands of people, most of them women and children, are maimed or killed every year by land mines, long after the fighting has stopped in such countries as Bosnia, Cambodia and Angola.
And second, it steals some thunder from the Scottish National Party, which is threatening to prevent Labour winning power in the Edinburgh assembly, and for which land reform has long been a cherished goal.
These come from various sources, mostly land sales (the government auctions long leases), land-use premiums that are negotiated between developers and government, and profits tax from property developers and banks, whose main business is property.
This Christian minority, which numbers some 11 million, was established in the land of the pharaohs long before the Islamic conquests.
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It is not just that Okinawa, with 0.6% of Japan's land area, has long had to bear a disproportionate brunt of the American presence.
Even in California, land of freeways and long commutes, Mini E drivers clocked up 48km a day, not far behind the American average of 64km.
New roads and electrical and water connections stretch for miles, leading to plots of empty land where past owners long ago abandoned plans to build even more houses.
The land in question had long been used as a common grazing area by local tenant farmers, called crofters, and a group of them protested that the construction of golf holes would violate their legal rights.
Brazil lacks a central land register, suffers widespread forgery of title deeds and has a long history of squatters seizing land.
Most make their way to the South by a long and dangerous land route, she says.
Peace has so far continued to reign in carrier land, but for how long?
These maps will also facilitate the resolution of decades-long problems of land use and land tenure.
Yet this collateral is often little better than worthless, thanks to the long fall in land values.
When playing Monopoly it was great to land on Boardwalk, as long as somebody else did not already own it.
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Route 66 in Cars Land is approximately 525 feet long and 23 feet wide, rich with inspiration from the actual American highway.
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In this rough region, where people have long worked the land, lived by their wits, taken risks, hoped for luck and respected authority, most local people welcome WIPP.
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