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  • But there again, bad governance, a tradition of keeping women out of the workforce for lesser economic empowerment and consequently a farming dependent economy, have all attributed to the stark aftermath of floods that lay ruin to farm-land and left few options for a new livelihood.

    Maryam Zar: Thanksgiving: Give Thanks and be Thoughtful Maryam Zar 2011

  • But there again, bad governance, a tradition of keeping women out of the workforce for lesser economic empowerment and consequently a farming dependent economy, have all attributed to the stark aftermath of floods that lay ruin to farm-land and left few options for a new livelihood.

    Maryam Zar: Thanksgiving: Give Thanks and be Thoughtful Maryam Zar 2011

  • But there again, bad governance, a tradition of keeping women out of the workforce for lesser economic empowerment and consequently a farming dependent economy, have all attributed to the stark aftermath of floods that lay ruin to farm-land and left few options for a new livelihood.

    Maryam Zar: Thanksgiving: Give Thanks and be Thoughtful Maryam Zar 2011

  • But there again, bad governance, a tradition of keeping women out of the workforce for lesser economic empowerment and consequently a farming dependent economy, have all attributed to the stark aftermath of floods that lay ruin to farm-land and left few options for a new livelihood.

    Maryam Zar: Thanksgiving: Give Thanks and be Thoughtful Maryam Zar 2011

  • But Israel has spent billions-upon-billions of dollars systematically for four decades expropriating land and exploiting West BanK resources both human and natural for the current apartheid structure of Jewish-only homes, settlements, farm-land, and roads.

    Could There Be a One-State Solution? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • But Israel has spent billions-upon-billions of dollars systematically for four decades expropriating land and exploiting West BanK resources both human and natural for the current apartheid structure of Jewish-only homes, settlements, farm-land, and roads.

    Could There Be a One-State Solution? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • The background was a shadowy suggestion of steppe farm-land, unobtrusively implying vast distances of bluish-gray.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • They had emerged into open country, and were climbing a winding road which extended before them uphill; on their left the land descended gradually to a valley below them, where in the distance, they could see the scattered houses nestled among the fields of fertile farm-land.

    The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Edith Lavell

  • Like our own country, it is a land of wide expanses, of varied and vast resources, of pulsing and prosperous cities; of cultivated farm-land and undeveloped veldt; of mountains and of plains.

    Canadian Trade Mission Trip to South Africa 1947

  • Of course rent of farm-land in our present sense -- each owner of the land letting out his property to a tenant and, in return, exacting as large a monetary payment as possible -- was then unknown.

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

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