Definition of land grab
: a usually swift acquisition of property (such as land or patent rights) often by fraud or force
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But land grabs by companies, often aided by local officials, have escalated in India.
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Stealing the show is Zhuang, irrepressible, quixotic, an endlessly scheming operator who finds his calling in activism — rallying opposition to a corrupt land grab in his village.
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That is why the land grab for dockless bike-share companies is playing out largely in low-density cities like Dallas, as well as suburbs and college towns.
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Winder sees Germany in a bind similar to that of colonial powers like Britain and France in the 19th century, when occupation of, say, Egypt was more about debt management than any sort of land grab.
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Opposition politicians accuse Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen of allowing a Chinese land grab of 16 islands and of inflating the costs for personal gain.
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But their accusations of land grabs echo the Oromo’s.
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Most were detained in connection with mass protests that broke out three years ago in the country’s Oromia and Amhara regions, where people have complained that they have been neglected by the central government and victimized by land grabbing.
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In 2011, the village of Wukan made international headlines after authorities laid siege to the town following a mass uprising over a land grab.
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First Known Use of land grab
1860
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