Spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite adventure.
Tens of millions of people in rural areas have been pushed off their land to make way for development (they do not own the land itself, but they do have usage rights).
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Furthermore, Adamo says that sustained high prices for crude will make land-based exploration economically viable again, increasing the prospects for Dawson's growth.
The government plans to make available enough land for an average of 20, 000 private residential flats each year in the next decade.
There was long-running controversy over the cost of clearing the industrial land to make way for the hospital.
The Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries saw families cleared from land to make way for large scale farming and sporting estates.
The court also said Israel is obligated to return confiscated land or make reparations for the destruction or damage to homes, businesses and farms affected by the barrier's construction.
He has not permitted Jews to build on state land to make up for the fact that they face market discrimination from the Palestinian Authority which has made it a capital crime to sell private land to Jews.
Derek Jeter and his 3, 000 hits, for instance, make it much easier for opponents to determine where his next hit may land.
Recognizing that immigrants have always made our country stronger, she has worked to make America a land of greater opportunity for all who call it home.
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Villages were to be displaced and land flooded to make way for the dam, yet most of the electricity was earmarked to go to China, leaving the local Kachin people little better off than before.
He began to resettle thousands of families along the Sutherland coast to make way for sheep on the newly-cleared land.
Subsidies, Mr Korth and his allies say, help big farmers to bid up land prices and make it harder for small farmers to survive.
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For all of his proximity to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Abravanel had no idea that they were planning to expel the Jews and so was unable to either cancel the expulsion decree or to make preparations for the community to move to another land.
If approved, the seafront scheme would see the removal of amusements and the land-train garage to make way for the new attractions.
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In some cases, entire settlements have been relocated and large plots of land have been cleared to make way for the proposed projects.
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In June, more than 1, 500 townspeople protested that soldiers forced them off of land near the casinos to make way for development projects.
Olsen Energy has been increasingly focusing on the opportunity to make money by making its land in Belfast available for development for other uses.
The less glamorous locales may not have as much homegrown science, but they make up for that with other attractions, like cheap land and easy access to the Interstate highway system.
And if someone worked especially hard and planned really well, he or she might eventually be able to acquire more land and make a more prosperous life for his or her children.
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The decision reignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it would make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple.
The decision re-ignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it will make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple.
Sena was one of many workers hired to help slash and burn land in Mato Gross state to make room for crops on Brazil's agricultural frontier.
Ostensibly tribal, these Bantustans were devised not only to open up more good land for white farmers but also to make it appear to outsiders, at least that whites were merely one of many African tribes happily living together while separately sharing the land.
As for the 450 Minuteman missiles that make up the other land-based leg of the arsenal, their locations are well known and the number of warheads they carry has dwindled to a small portion of the nuclear arsenal, so their future contribution to deterrence is uncertain too.
This is about how the over 300 co-operative urban gardens of the city of Havana, which includes 35000 acres of land being used for urban agriculture, make it possible to ensure the food safety of Cubans, by providing each citizen 280g of fruits and vegetables every day, and provide work to many unemployed people.
The Supreme Soviet also acted recently to make it possible, in principle, for Soviet citizens to own land privately.
Traditionally, the U.S. government has supported Israeli bids to make peace with the Palestinians based on the paradigm of land for peace.
Two project developers, First Solar and SunPower, opted to make peace with environmental groups by agreeing to set aside land for wildlife protection.
Critics also say that in Africa, Asia and South America, people are being driven from their land and forests are being cleared to make room for the booming biofuel industry.
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