Non-royals are often dependent on their local council to rent them a strip of land.
In Avatar, indigenous groups gather with the help of a handful of foreigners (from Earth) to fight off a marauding mining corporation looking to develop a strip of land on a site holy to the locals.
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There were graves but hardly what could be called a churchyard: no more than a narrow strip of land beside a path close to the church itself, running all the way around it.
This area includes the disputed Posavina corridor, a narrow strip of land that Serbs now control.
Trans-Dniester is a tiny strip of land that was once part of Moldova, which has spent most of its recent existence bobbling back and forth between the Soviet Union and Romania.
Trieste is in a geographic cul-de-sac, with the Adriatic Sea to the south and west, Slovenia to the east and a narrow strip of land connecting it to the rest of Italy.
As revolutionary echoes from France made London's potentates tremble, cargoes of ex-slaves were dumped on a malarial strip of impossible land.
In fact, Macau draws so many punters that casinos are literally rising from the sea: the Venetian and the Plaza anchor a development known as the Cotai Strip, built on a five-kilometre piece of reclaimed land that links the two Macanese islands of Coloane and Taipa.
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Libya's attempts in the mid-1980s to seize a slice of land known as the Aozou strip from its neighbour, Chad, are forgotten.
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Mr McShane was with the "Antrim to Gaza" group which travelled to the strip last year as part of a major land convoy bringing humanitarian aid to civilians.
This time there's hope he'll create a revival on the dreary north end of the Strip, where the Desert Inn is located, a no-man's-land of aging dowagers and low-roller joints.
Pakistan has so far refused to open the border, forcing refugees to wait in a 200-metre strip of no-man's-land between the two countries.
"We have been basically in a holding pattern for the last couple of months, waiting to find out what runway strip we are going to land on, " Ivers said in an interview from Indiana, where he was traveling.
Phillip Ruffin, the owner of the New Frontier casino at the north end of the Strip, recently tried to buy three acres of land that MGM owns behind his casino for a development he is working on with Donald Trump.
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