land-grab

Goar uses the titular land-grab as a springboard for imaginative--and instructive--investigations into what it means to be an American, and, too, what it means to be steeped in a national narrative with which it becomes increasingly difficult to establish any personal relationship.

Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

I did not support the land-grab, but did not see the big corporation pulling out so quickly, I guess.

This happened here, in Connecticut « Dating Jesus 2009

Not just because of the team behind it -- though Denki head Gary Penn has more than proved himself over the years with design credits on the original Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown -- but for the game's more strategic underpinnings, where the actual competitive word battles are simply its substitute for combat in a larger land-grab conquest (which you see above: think DiceWars).

Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing 2009

Goar uses the titular land-grab as a springboard for imaginative--and instructive--investigations into what it means to be an American, and, too, what it means to be steeped in a national narrative with which it becomes increasingly difficult to establish any personal relationship.

Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

The Wall was, however, a transparent land-grab: 8% of Palestinian land is now on the Israeli side of the fence.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

John Vidal: Until last week, barely any MPs showed much interest in the planned land-grab of our public woodland.

Huge majority oppose England forest sell-off, poll finds 2011

He used his MacTaggart lecture at last year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival to call for a "far, far smaller BBC", accused the corporation of mounting a "land-grab", and described its ambitions as "chilling".

Rupert Murdoch-owned BSkyB open to abuse of power, says BBC boss James Robinson 2010

It was just a Soviet land-grab during surrender negotiations.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Not a May Day Parade 2010

And the resident anti-Zionists would consider the fact that Jews established a homeland in Königsberg instead of in Israel/Palestine (where there was not the large “native” population that there was in Königsberg) as evidence that Zionism was just a cover for a Western imperialist land-grab in Eastern Europe.

Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010

In 1793, Voltaire supported Catherine's land-grab in Poland and her betrayal of her francophone ex-lover, Stanislaw Poniatowski Poland's last king, on the grounds that "Reason" was entitled to trump Catholicism.

Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011