He tells of three men who started out on a trip across a single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a sheep grazer.

There is not a single privately owned TV channel with nationwide coverage.

He immediately began pushing for a programme of land reform, partly by invoking an old Sextian-Licinian law that limited the amount of land that could be owned by a single individual.

Nevertheless, they believed ( as does the mainstream of scholarship ) that the names derived from a single prehistoric ethnonym owned by a uniform culture in the middle 1st millennium BC, the original " Goths ".

Unlike the system it replaces, the buses are owned and operated by a single company with the drivers working for Arriva Malta.

* 717 km total of single track ( standard gauge ), owned and operated by a government mining company, Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière ( National Mining and Industrial Company, SNIM ).

MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.

In the pure sense of the term, a merger happens when two firms agree to go forward as a single new company rather than remain separately owned and operated.

Hence the Internet's core is owned and managed by a number of different network service providers, not a single entity.

San Francisco Bay is spanned by eight bridges, all of them dedicated to vehicle traffic: the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 101 ( which was the largest single span suspension bridge ever built at the time of its construction ) which connects San Francisco and Marin counties and is the only bridge in the area not owned by the State of California.

Independents are small software developers that are not owned by or beholden to a single publisher.

Created as a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation under the company name " XFL, LLC ", the XFL was created as a " single-entity league ", meaning that the teams were not individually owned and operated franchises ( as in the NFL ), but that the league was operated as a single business unit.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route.

Major changes in the Amungme lifestyle have been brought about by the Grasberg mine, situated in the heart of Amungme territory and owned by Freeport-McMoRan, the region's largest single employer.

Twenty percent of its capital was owned by the federal government, the Bank's single largest stockholder Four thousand private investors held 80 % of the Bank's capital, including one thousand Europeans.

Farms may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation or a company.

For example, connected residents might be owned by a single entity and leased out, or owned separately with an agreement covering the relationship between units and common areas and concerns.

Many hofjes are still owned by the original foundations, and are still mainly used for single elderly women.

He later owned a furniture shop, and became known as " the Mad Hatter " from his habit of standing in the door of his shop wearing a top hat.

As a result of the aristocratic habit of only marrying within the aristocracy, and whenever possible to a sole heiress, many owners of country houses owned several country mansions, and would visit each according to the season: Grouse shooting in Scotland, pheasant shooting and fox hunting in England.

To feed the drug habit, he sold everything he owned and then resorted to stealing, including a guitar from his friend Kenny Beard.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

Artur Schnabel complained once that " Steinway refused to let me use their pianos Steinway pianos owned by Steinway unless I would give up playing the Bechstein piano – which I had used for so many years – in Europe.

Northerly Island where the airport was located was owned by the Chicago Park District, which refused to renew the airport lease in 1996.

Meanwhile, the Nazareth tract was largely in the hand of Captain John, a Lenape chieftain who ( along with his followers ) stubbornly refused to leave, even though they no longer owned the land.

Haughey's personal wealth and extravagant lifestyle – he owned racehorses, a large motor sailing yacht Celtic Mist, a private island, and a Gandon-designed mansion – had long been a point of curious speculation ; he had refused throughout his career to answer any questions about how he financed this lifestyle on a government salary.

In addition, the rest of the signors owned several thousand movies houses and if they refused to screen the film it could be a financial disaster.

A number of Chinese artifacts dating from the Tang dynasty and Song dynasty, some of which had been owned by Emperor Zhenzong were excavated and then came into the hands of Ma Hongkui, who refused to publicize the findings.

On October 16, 2008, Capitol West Appraisers filed a class action lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp. ( now owned by Bank of America ) alleging Countrywide blacklisted appraisers who refused to appraise real estate at inflated prices.

The Native American nations refused to be removed from their lands without a fight, and they opposed the Americans ' attempts to forcefully remove them in warfare, by trickery or by treaties, since they had owned and lived on the lands for thousands of years.

After Kucinich refused to sell Muni Light, Cleveland's publicly owned electric utility, the Cleveland mafia put out a hit on Kucinich.

The land required, east of the city on Twyford Down, was owned by Winchester College, which refused to sell the land to the government because part was a water meadow.

In December 1978, Mayor Dennis Kucinich refused to sell the company when a number of banks, which were heavily invested in Muny Light's privately owned competitor, the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company ( better known as CEI or The Illuminating Company ) refused to roll over the city's debt, as had previously been customary.

He refused to accept a 2-way qualifying offer with a minor league provision from the Flyers, who still owned his rights.

Larry Harmon, who owned the rights to the Bozo the Clown character, refused to congratulate Bell on the honor and also prohibited him from receiving it in costume, as was customary at inductions.

Despite that Modell owned the team, Brown refused to cede any authority or be diplomatic in his relationship with Modell.

Michael Jackson owned the rights to the piece, and his representatives refused permission for the release of the PFS version.

The race track, which was owned by the Metairie Jockey Club, refused membership to Charles T. Howard, a local resident who had gained his wealth by starting the first Louisiana State Lottery.

Morris wanted to send military forces to the frontier, but the Assembly, whose leadership included Benjamin Franklin, refused to grant the funds unless Morris agreed to the taxation of the proprietary lands, the vast tracts still owned by the Penn family and others.

However, Twentieth Century Fox, which owned the rights to the movie, refused to to grant them the rights to the script nor the title.

Smith then controlled much of the newspaper and magazine distribution in the UK through a wholly owned subsidiary and they refused to sell it or allow their distribution company to distribute it to other suppliers.

In 1959 Peter Byrne, a member of Slick's expedition that year, reportedly stole pieces of the artifact after the monks who owned it refused to allow its removal for study.

While K C Sudarshan said this, again after two days, RSS, the mother organization of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Tuesday owned the Ayodhya movement but refused to apologise about what happened in Ayodhya in 1992 which led to demolition of the Babri mosque.

Hap Emms bought the Black Hawks in 1972 and for the next four years attendance declined to the point that Emms refused to suffer any more losses and moved the club to Niagara Falls in 1976, rejuvenating the name of the previous Niagara Falls Flyers team which Emms had also owned.