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After the flooding in 2010, the government turned this into a more organised attempt to move the farmers off the land altogether.

I just think: Napian busy spring and summer off the land, perhaps this time the bar has been a very lonely!

"Most of us have spent our entire lifetimes trying to keep water off the land, " he said.

Just two years later they were run off the land by a squad of illegal right-wing paramilitaries who set up camp there.

Increasing productivity means you need fewer farmers, which steadily drives the least efficient off the land.

Humans migrate in search of food and try vainly to live like the animals off the land.

Paths wander past the stone walls and foundations of a partially restored 600-year-old coastal settlement where people lived off the land.

Today, most of the populace is self sustaining, except for those countries where drought has destroyed all chance of living off the land.

The farms, in turn, need factories to draw underemployed field-hands off the land, transforming them from surplus labourers into consumers.

A serious deficiency of iodine occurs, therefore, mainly in populations living off the land in remote and isolated regions.

These smaller organisms are also stimulated by nitrogen and phosphorous nutrients running off the land.

Shifting people permanently off the land will be a stern test of Chinese policy planning, which is not faultless.

Thecombination of poor harvests and low grain prices drove thousands of farmers off the land.

Many living in towns dream of starting up their own farm, of living off the land. Few get round to putting their dreams into practice.

We tried to build new businesses after we were forced off the land.

These lines of clouds formed when frigid winds blowing off the land chilled the moist ocean air.

The water that runs off the land during precipitation cuts small channels.

Nomadic hunters were forced off the land into settlements.

Most village children lack the basic literacy needed to find work off the land.

In 1921, while "living off the land" in Shanghai, he met Chiang Kai-shek and ran errands for him.

Many residents are ultimately forced off the land.

They built this intricate series of canals, and they pushed water off the land and out into the river.

He wanted to know more about the lay off the land before investing.

As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise.

The farmer says when they lived off the land the demand for their goods was primarily domestic.

Forcing the people off the land can harm the image of the investor.

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

and you will be torn off the land which you are entering to possess.

Here is really fit for people who are living off the land.

If we can identify water ice at the poles of the Moon we can use that water to live off the land.

Missus Houston and her children had to build a house and clear trees off the land.

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