land poor造句

• You might say we were kind of land poor.
• The PLO has continiously accused Israel of stealing water in a land poor in water resources.
• Dardanus and his people found the land poor and so most of them set sail for Asia Minor.
• Sons from land poor families, who had reached the age of 18, could obtain land from the peasants association if they married.
• The people were too poor to buy fertiliser for the crops so they had to burn some of the topsoil, and this left the land poor and shallow.
• One of the heirs to the throne, however, fled south and established the offshoot dynasty now called the Southern Song, which was land poor but rich in creative energy.
• Next a betrothal was brokered by the lord of land poor house Connington to his young newly knighted heir Ronnet, but young Ser Ronnet broke the betrothal the first time he met her.
• "This was clearly the best way to go for my family in terms of keeping our operation viable . . . It's been a tough few years, and we're kind of land poor ."
• If the project had been successful, the plan was to rebuild the two log and timber dams in concrete, this prompted him to say " I used to be land poor, but now I'm dam poor ".
• First, in 1993, peasant held that with little work in the urban areas any weakening of the existing system of land tenure would produce landlessness and force land poor-peasants to move to the towns and lives of destitution.
• Edmond's happiness infuriates his dissolute, aristocratic pal Fernand de Mondego ( Guy Pearce ), who engineers a series of betrayals _ involving the intricate politics of post-Napoleonic France _ that land poor Edmond in a hellish island dungeon, the notorious Chateau d'If.
• The duke, whose title dates from 1703 when Queen Anne elevated the second Marquess of Atholl to duke, has been listed as one of Britain's 200 richest people, with an estimated wealth of more than $ 200 million, but the duke had scoffed at such reports, declaring himself land poor.