he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.

Moreover, the law of the land is not irrevocable ; ;

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.

This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.

The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.

Within the units in the National Forest System the pattern of land ownership is quite irregular.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;

Minnesota, fabled land of waters, is in itself, ideal vacationland, having within its borders 10,000 lakes!!

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.

As an isolated policy, land reform is likely to be politically disruptive ; ;

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

Northern Bosnia contains very fertile agricultural land along the river Sava and the corresponding area is heavily farmed.

The battlefield of Ramillies is very similar to that of Blenheim, for here too there is an immense area of arable land unimpeded by woods or hedges.

The second article, published in 1938, states that launching a swift strategic knockout has great attractions for Germany but appears to accept that such a knockout will be very difficult to achieve by land attack under modern conditions ( especially in view of the existence of systems of fortification like the Maginot Line ) unless an exceptionally high degree of surprise is achieved.

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

Because very few wells and springs have water throughout the year, the herders leave with the end of the rains, turning over the land to the antelopes, gazelles, and ostriches that can survive with little groundwater.

Early Carboniferous land plants, some of which were preserved in coal balls, were very similar to those of the preceding Late Devonian, but new groups also appeared at this time.

Fire in many ancient cultures and myths has been known to purify the land with the flames of destruction, however, it is also capable of the renewal of life through the warmth and comfort of those very same flames.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

In a harsh and barren land where rainfall is very sparse and unreliable, Cholistanis rely mainly on their livestock of sheep, goats, and camel.

This includes blankets, which is also a local necessity for the desert is not just a land of dust and heat, but winter nights here are very cold, usually below freezing points.

straddles Equator ; very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean ; dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and eastern highlands

In the past, flooding of the Nile during the summer provided silt and water to make agriculture possible on land that is otherwise very dry.

However, because they cannot turn their hind flippers downward, they are very clumsy on land, having to wriggle with their front flippers and abdominal muscles.

He pointed out that the very small sizes of Phobos and Deimos — approximately and eight miles ( 13 km ) in diameter and sub milli-g surface gravity — would make it easier for a spacecraft to land and take off again.

In part because of labor intensity and aesthetic motivations, gardening is very often much more productive per unit of land than farming.

Such weapons were also very effective on land when used against besieging forces.

In most other land plants, the gametophyte is very small.

Bavaria was especially unfortunate in this regard ; it was a rural land with very heavy debts and few growth centers.

The fruit companies received very large concessions of land on which to grow bananas, often forcing small holders who had been growing and exporting bananas off their land or out of business.

Domesticated horses are also subject to inconsistent movement between stabling and work, they must carry or pull additional weight, and in modern times they are often kept and worked on very soft footing, such as irrigated land, arena footing, or stall bedding.