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On the first day blacks were allowed to vote in South Africa, the small, weatherbeaten man with a pistol at his belt sat beneath portraits of long-dead Boer generals and pledged to fight for what he calls his land.
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He said people in townships were still squatting in property which they call land.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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He said people in townships were still squatting in property which they called land.
Guardian Online 2010
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Now, of course, the players are trying to get the lay of the second-term land.
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The rest were recent migrants from the People's Republic of China, the Middle Kingdom, as they called their land.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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The rest were recent migrants from the People's Republic of China, the Middle Kingdom, as they called their land.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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The defence argues the men had knowingly trespassed on a sacred site, located on native title land.
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Lockport, for example, isn't just looking to fill its entitled land.
chicagotribune.com - 2009
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In Wellesley there’s a line of multi-million dollar mcmansion build on land owned by the catholic church as part of a cemetery. why, you may ask are there mcmansions there? simple, they lost the land as part of a little boy diddling lawsuit and had to sell the land. is the little boy diddlwer in jail? hell no, he was shuffled off to the vatican before they could indict him.
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And yes, the expansionist fringe was happy to have its religious views reified in land.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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