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  • noun Plural form of landholding.

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Examples

  • This shows that what he wants is to set up huge landholdings, which is why he brought tycoons from around the world to

    IPS Inter Press Service Helda Martínez interviews Senator JORGE ROBLEDO 2009

  • The reason Chiapas/Soconusco is a part of Mexico today instead of Guatemala is because the owners of the vast landholdings enslaving the indigenous who worked endlessly to protect their privileges under penalty of death, voted to join the Mexican Republic in order to protect those holdings in what they considered to be a more stable political structure.

    Hidden Restaurants - on the hunt 2009

  • This institutional stability, combined with ruthless efficiency, helped the Stato da Mar to double its landholdings from 1380 to 1420.

    The Doges of War William H. McNeill 2012

  • Country estates in Queensland can rival many of the big landholdings in the U.S. and Canada.

    117,00 Acres, With Waterfall 2011

  • The reason Chiapas/Soconusco is a part of Mexico today instead of Guatemala is because the owners of the vast landholdings enslaving the indigenous who worked endlessly to protect their privileges under penalty of death, voted to join the Mexican Republic in order to protect those holdings in what they considered to be a more stable political structure.

    Hidden Restaurants - on the hunt 2009

  • Attacks and harassment against the few-hundred white farmers remaining on small parts of their original landholdings continues on an almost daily basis, according to the Union.

    Farmers Sue Zimbabwe Government for Racism 2010

  • There are very few large landholdings in Timor, with the exception of the colonial-era coffee plantations in the central mountain districts.

    Global Voices in English » East Timor: The land was freed, but who owns it? 2009

  • The builder spent $105 million to buy approximately 1,200 home sites and to develop other landholdings in the third quarter.

    Hovnanian Narrows Loss John Kell 2011

  • The reason Chiapas/Soconusco is a part of Mexico today instead of Guatemala is because the owners of the vast landholdings enslaving the indigenous who worked endlessly to protect their privileges under penalty of death, voted to join the Mexican Republic in order to protect those holdings in what they considered to be a more stable political structure.

    Hidden Restaurants - on the hunt 2009

  • The reason Chiapas/Soconusco is a part of Mexico today instead of Guatemala is because the owners of the vast landholdings enslaving the indigenous who worked endlessly to protect their privileges under penalty of death, voted to join the Mexican Republic in order to protect those holdings in what they considered to be a more stable political structure.

    Hidden Restaurants - on the hunt 2009

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