land-hungry

To imply, then, that I am a power -/money -/land-hungry tyrant is inexcusable and nothing could be further from the truth.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

However, land-hungry grandees might cease their battle with the Fairfaxes if they could get access to other lands in the west, leaping over the Fairfax proprietary claims.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

But it was a happy event for Lord Fairfax and other land-hungry Virginia aristocrats.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

I am not some power -/money -/land-hungry miser that you can accuse me of desiring to gain simply for the sake of diminishing your authority and your wealth.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

I am not some power -/money -/land-hungry miser that you can accuse me of desiring to gain simply for the sake of diminishing your authority and your wealth.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009

However, land-hungry grandees might cease their battle with the Fairfaxes if they could get access to other lands in the west, leaping over the Fairfax proprietary claims.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Crockett was born in 1786, Scots-Irish, a descendant of the impoverished, raucous, land-hungry, war-loving tribe that had swarmed into America in the 1700s in a horde far outnumbering the Puritans or Quakers or Cavaliers of Virginia—2½ times as many as all the others combined.

An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

The region, with rich soil and warm climate, was a magnet for land-hungry American settlers, runaway slaves, British loyalists exiled after the Revolutionary War and French adventurers.

When the Bayou Broke Away Stuart Ferguson 2011

Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.

Does a Different Nuclear Power Lie Ahead? Matt Ridley 2011

To imply, then, that I am a power -/money -/land-hungry tyrant is inexcusable and nothing could be further from the truth.

Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups 2009