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 day a forest landowner becomes wealthy is the day he quits being a forest landowner,” Hopkins said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
These aircraft can only be called in after approval by the fire service incident commander, and when the landowner has "contractual arrangements" in place to cover the costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
This he would have done but he was ashamed lest men see him, who was no longer held a farmer within the gates of the town, but a landowner and a rich man.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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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
One of the world's rarest bats could be at risk if ExxonMobil forges ahead with a Papua New Guinea gas project, a law firm working with impacted landowners warned Monday.
From Barron's ● 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
For years, he said, he’d been promising tribes and landowners their concerns would be addressed as the law requires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
True Belle, of course, would have known everything right away because, first of all, nobody could hide much in Wordsworth and nothing at all could be hidden in the Big Houses of its landowners.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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