This did not happen in counties of North Georgia, where the rivers run and make rich the bottom land.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

However, he came to " glory " as much as he did brutality by repelling invading Carthaginians and winning the loyalty of the denizens of his land.

However, the aristocratic landlords did not adjust the rents they were charging for land rented to farmers for growing wheat or " corn.

But only when a more centralized English monarchy emerged following the Norman invasion, and when the kings of England attempted to assert power over the land and its peoples, did the modern concept emerge, namely of a crime not only as an offence against the " individual ", but also as a wrong against the " State ".

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

Inheritance was an important issue, since land could fall into the hands of those who did not have loyalty to the Church or the great lords.

At least 525, 000 people — more than 12 % of El Salvador's population at the time and perhaps 25 % of the rural poor — benefited from agrarian reform, and more than 22 % of El Salvador's total farmland was transferred to those who previously worked the land but did not own it.

However, as hunting forests did often include considerable areas of woodland, the word " forest " eventually came to mean wooded land more generally.

Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic origin, from fuyū ( the plural of fay, which literally means " the returned ", and was used especially for ' land that has been conquered from enemies that did not fight ').

However, these regulations did not restrict their purchase of land, and many accumulated substantial holdings and became slave-owners.

Under the circumstances, Olid proposed a truce to which Las Casas agreed, and he did not land his forces.

They were eventually forced or chose to withdraw, concluding that the wealth of the land did not justify the extensive garrisoning requirements.

Louis VI frequently summoned his vassals to the court, and those who did not show up often had their land possessions confiscated and military campaigns mounted against them.

Orthodox peasants in Albania's southern lowlands loathed Zogu because he supported the Muslim landowners ' efforts to block land reform ; Shkodër's citizens felt shortchanged because their city did not become Albania's capital, and nationalists were dissatisfied because Zogu's government did not press Albania's claims to Kosovo or speak up more energetically for the rights of the ethnic Albanian minorities in present-day Yugoslavia and Greece.

His last words to his followers were, " If I did not so fully believe, that the Lord has designated me to place our society before His presence in the land of Canaan, I would consider this my last ".

The redistribution of land did not necessarily lead to small farmers in the South winding up with land of their own or land they could work and profit from.

While it did not authorize the forced removal of the indigenous tribes, it authorized the President to negotiate land exchange treaties with tribes located in lands of the United States.

Popular reviews of the Book of Joshua's sharp contrasts and internal conflicts arise from " an appreciable difference between defeating a king in battle, and gaining possession of his capital city " ( vs.,,, ); and because " the land was now within the grasp of the Israelites they did not avail themselves fully of that dominion which was within their reach " (,, vs., ).

For instance, just as Moses did not lead the children of Israel into the promised land, but Joshua did, so Moses ' law could not lead them into Heaven but the new covenant mediated by Jesus ( the same name as " Joshua ") could.

Instead, non-return-to-zero, inverted encoding is used: a change from pit to land or land to pit indicates a one, while no change indicates a series of zeros.

Another type of loaded die is hollow with a small weight and a semi-solid substance inside whose melting point is just lower than the temperature of the human body, allowing the cheater to change the loading of the die by applying body heat, causing the semi-solid to melt and the weight to drift down, making the chosen opposite face more likely to land up.

The River Liffey bends at Leixlip from a predominantly east-west direction to a southwesterly route, and this point also marks the change from urban development to more agricultural land usage.

During his reign, tribal organization began to erode as provincial government officials allowed land to change hands outside the traditional clan and tribal limits.

Studies by Pruski and Nearing indicated that, other factors such as land use not considered, we can expect approximately a 1. 7 % change in soil erosion for each 1 % change in total precipitation under climate change.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

The decline of the dog-like hyenas began 5-7 million years ago during a period of climate change, which was exacerbated when canids crossed the Bering land bridge to Eurasia.

Kiribati is expected to be the first country in which all land territory disappears due to global climate change.

This reflected a change in attitude amongst military planners that a land war in Europe was increasingly likely, and a turning away from Tirpitz's scheme for worldwide expansion using the navy.

The graziers were satisfied with the marketing organisation of their industry, opposed any change in land tenure and labour relations, and advocated lower tariffs, low freight rates, and low taxes.

Crutzen and Birks showed that smoke injected into the atmosphere by fires in cities, forests and petroleum reserves could prevent up to 99 % of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, with major climatic consequences: " The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems.

The end of the Paleocene ( 55. 5 / 54. 8 Mya ) was marked by one of the most significant periods of global change during the Cenozoic, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which upset oceanic and atmospheric circulation and led to the extinction of numerous deep-sea benthic foraminifera and on land, a major turnover in mammals.

The change from Pictland to Alba may not have been noticeable at first ; indeed, as we do not know the Pictish name for their land, it may not have been a change at all.

Apparently, things were not expected to change during the fourth season ; in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling " land mines " since " Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted / planned to do ".

By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the vessel relative to its surrounding medium ( typically water, but also land and ice ) and change its direction and speed.

# Global Change and Sustainable Development, Climate change — adaptation and mitigation, Ecological health and biodiversity, New risk and vulnerabilities, Sustainable land, agriculture and natural resources management, Green economy.

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contribute on a " massive scale " to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

His reign in England was marked by the construction of castles, the settling of a new Norman nobility on the land, and change in the composition of the English clergy.

`` That's a new land.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

The land wasn't all Wilson had expected of it.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

His land had never been plowed.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

He spread the flight out and led them across a point of land and then down the coast.

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

Three hours later, while we were bailing desperately, a dot of land came into view.

And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

Watching, they waited until the squall thickened and began to move in a long drifting slant across the dry burning land.

The aborigine lives on the cruelest land I have ever seen.

But much of the land which the aborigine wanders looks as if it should be hospitable.

he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.

People talk about `` the law of the land ''.

In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

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.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.