landgrabbers

Yet, back in their hometowns, the land to which the rural poor have been tethered all their lives is being snatched by landgrabbers, with no real recourse.

Michelle Chen: Will Peasants and Migrant Workers Forge China's New Political Vanguard? Michelle Chen 2012

Just because planters and landgrabbers with the backing of a tyrannical foreign power that still beleives in birthright for petes sakemake up the majority and want to stay with the union does that make it right?

Two I.R.A. Splinter Groups Return to Violence - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eminent domain's poster children 2007

In Southeastern Colorado, landowners fight off the country's military landgrabbers.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Eminent domain's poster children 2007

They're landgrabbers supporters and will support any means to grab land, even if it means using deceit, terroristical methods, God as the ultimate excuse, murdering those in the way, and so on.

"Urban Pioneers" Invade OTR Nathaniel Livingston 2006

English Government officials have very little and very poor encouragement given them if they push inland and attempt to enlarge the sphere of influence, which their knowledge of local conditions teaches them requires enlarging, because the authorities at home are afraid other nations will say we are rapacious landgrabbers.

Travels in West Africa 2003

He said with the whites utilising only a paltry 30 percent of the land they own, war veterans who are seeking to reverse the colonial land imbalances are portrayed as "squatters", "landgrabbers",

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

In the case of the enclosure of the common lands, which was going on from about 1600 to 1850, the landgrabbers did not even have the excuse of being foreign conquerors; they were quite frankly taking the heritage of their own countrymen, upon no sort of pretext except that they had the power to do so.

As I Please 1944

Que Rory des Collines vit et que les landgrabbers crèvent

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

English Government officials have very little and very poor encouragement given them if they push inland and attempt to enlarge the sphere of influence, which their knowledge of local conditions teaches them requires enlarging, because the authorities at home are afraid other nations will say we are rapacious landgrabbers.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881