Non-royals are often dependent on their local council to rent them a strip of land.
This area includes the disputed Posavina corridor, a narrow strip of land that Serbs now control.
Shore: narrow strip of land in immediate contact with the sea.
Dozens of mining companies are trawling the narrow strip of land abutting its 44, 087-kilometre coastline for diamonds, gold and rubies and possibly more exotic treasures.
If he is right, that could mean an Israeli strip of land, 20-30km in width, running west of the Jordan river, the Palestinians' main gateway to the Arab world.
Trans-Dniester is a tiny strip of land that was once part of Moldova, which has spent most of its recent existence bobbling back and forth between the Soviet Union and Romania.
Trieste is in a geographic cul-de-sac, with the Adriatic Sea to the south and west, Slovenia to the east and a narrow strip of land connecting it to the rest of Italy.
There were graves but hardly what could be called a churchyard: no more than a narrow strip of land beside a path close to the church itself, running all the way around it.
In Avatar, indigenous groups gather with the help of a handful of foreigners (from Earth) to fight off a marauding mining corporation looking to develop a strip of land on a site holy to the locals.
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Another awkward complication is that Israel suggests that the Palestinians annex land adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
As revolutionary echoes from France made London's potentates tremble, cargoes of ex-slaves were dumped on a malarial strip of impossible land.
Libya's attempts in the mid-1980s to seize a slice of land known as the Aozou strip from its neighbour, Chad, are forgotten.
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Around the same time, Florida real estate developer Jeffrey Soffer was working on Turnberry Place, four condominium towers on an uninspiring stretch of land just east of the Strip.
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.
In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.
"We have been basically in a holding pattern for the last couple of months, waiting to find out what runway strip we are going to land on, " Ivers said in an interview from Indiana, where he was traveling.
He was able to land by peeking through a 2-inch strip on the side window that had avoided sandblasting.
The Tropicana sits on 34 acres in the heart of the Vegas Strip, the best-situated piece of land available for development.
Pakistan has so far refused to open the border, forcing refugees to wait in a 200-metre strip of no-man's-land between the two countries.
Mr McShane was with the "Antrim to Gaza" group which travelled to the strip last year as part of a major land convoy bringing humanitarian aid to civilians.
Phillip Ruffin, the owner of the New Frontier casino at the north end of the Strip, recently tried to buy three acres of land that MGM owns behind his casino for a development he is working on with Donald Trump.
In fact, Macau draws so many punters that casinos are literally rising from the sea: the Venetian and the Plaza anchor a development known as the Cotai Strip, built on a five-kilometre piece of reclaimed land that links the two Macanese islands of Coloane and Taipa.
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Anti-Rabin sentiment among settlers and others opposed to giving up Israeli-occupied land intensified after the prime minister agreed to transfer authority to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
This time there's hope he'll create a revival on the dreary north end of the Strip, where the Desert Inn is located, a no-man's-land of aging dowagers and low-roller joints.
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