landowner
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George Brown, another landowner opposed to rerouting, said he lives half a mile from the bluffs and questioned whether the erosion was as precarious as officials said it was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Caricom Reparations Commission chair Hilary Beckles has repeatedly spoken out about ex-Conservative Party lawmaker and UK landowner Richard Drax, 68, whose ancestors established Drax Hall Estate in Barbados in the mid-17th century.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
The architect Matt Masserella-Gill was commissioned to design the home by the landowner David Rasche.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Edgeworth’s interest in economics began with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, a charismatic inventor and landowner who married four times and fathered 22 surviving children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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"The landowners are not particularly clear about the social and environmental impacts of the project, so the government must not rush this project," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Clay Rikard, senior vice president of system planning at Southern, said the company has a more than 99% voluntary-agreement rate with landowners and rarely resorts to condemnation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
I agree, but I’m not sure that I want to label a fundamental reduction in the power of landowners an “ownership society.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
At the supervisors’ meeting, Lorraine Pedrotti, who owns property south of Centerville Beach, said the county has done a poor job communicating with nearby landowners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
But Chicago’s landowners wanted profit, and at the city’s center, profit meant height.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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