• But they are also exposed to public pressure to prevent another western intrusion into Arab land.

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  • It has also selected more than 20 million acres of public land in 11 western states with wind capabilities.

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  • More than 20 companies - including Jaguar Land Rover and Great Western Hospitals - attended the fair in Swindon.

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  • In particular, some developing countries are angry at what they see as western nations' attempts to insert new loopholes into regulations on how emissions from land use change are accounted for, which could allow western nations to cut actual emissions by less than they have pledged.

    BBC: New UN climate chief calls for more ambition

  • Born and raised in western North Carolina, she lives on land that was owned by her father, and her father's father before him.

    CNN: Do we want an America that wrecks families?

  • Unions were at the peak of their power, strikes wracked most western economies, and inflationary forces prowled the land.

    FORBES: George Shultz Remembers Failed Crises Past

  • New crofts will help to tackle historic population decline on the Western Isles, the chairman of a community land trust has said.

    BBC: A family

  • Property records show that in 1971 Mr Kaczynski, along with his brother David, bought 1.4 acres of land outside of Lincoln, in western Montana.

    BBC: Profile: Theodore Kaczynski

  • In 2006, she purchased land in Surkhet, a district in western Nepal.

    CNN: Hero Maggie Doyne

  • Cheung said looking forward, if land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.

    FORBES: Jobs moving inland

  • As American military vehicles and troops start to arrive in Bosnia -- taking a 30-kilometer (20-mile) road toward Tuzla that they've dubbed "Route Arizona" -- some are setting up a series of small bases in the Posavina Corridor, a narrow neck of land connecting Serb territories in eastern and western Bosnia.

    CNN: Bosnia begins peaceful 1996

  • Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.

    BBC: Bill Clinton, Labour conference

  • The BLM, which, as of April 2012, manages a total of 245 million acres in 12 western states, has identified nearly 23 million acres of public land in six different southwestern states with solar potential: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

    FORBES: Green Energy Won't be Soiled

  • As part of the price of Western recognition for their independence, Kosovo's leaders agreed that their land should have room for non-Albanian minorities.

    ECONOMIST: Repatriating refugees

  • Not far from Corleone, in the rolling hills of western Sicily, there is a farming co-operative set up on land confiscated from the Mafia.

    BBC: News

  • If a legal Russian business uses a criminally owned company to bribe an official in order to land its revenues legally (by Russian standards) in a western bank, how guilty is the banker under, say, English law, for taking the deposit?

    ECONOMIST: Money laundering in Russia

  • When his father died, he was persuaded to leave his practice as a land economist to take up his father's seat as an MP in western Kenya.

    BBC: Profile: Musalia Mudavadi

  • Those who fled to the South Western peninsula (cern in Celtic or cornu in Latin) lived in Corn-wall - the foreign land on England's horn.

    BBC: Is brand Britain losing its lustre?

  • The decision to land in Turkey was a consequence of the lack of success by Britain and its allies on the western front in France.

    ECONOMIST: Alec Campbell

  • Now they are trying to settle on 127 hectares (313 acres) of land provided by the government on the outskirts of Ricaurte, a small town in the south-western province of Narino.

    BBC: Colombia's indigenous peoples face uncertain future

  • The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.

    CNN: 'The Science Guy' says: 'Save the Earth'

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