How to Use land reform in a Sentence

land reform

noun

• His first break came in 1928 when Pravda printed his piece on land reform in Uzbekistan.
  — Douglas Smith, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• Since land reform broke up big estates in the 1950s, even-handed inheritance laws have kept shrinking the size of farms.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• But its attempts to curb the power of the army and the church, grant home rule to Catalans and Basques and implement land reform, all amid the Depression of the 1930s, may have been too ambitious.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who ran with land reform as a key part of his platform, has tried to reassure those concerned about the landmark vote.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 5 Mar. 2018
• The new president has committed to radical land reform that was the founding principle of the ANC in 1912.
  — Kieron Monks, CNN, 7 May 2018
• Not to mention misguided initiatives such as the 1980s land reform in El Salvador.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
• In November of last year, policymakers in Beijing approved a rollout of the land reform tested in Sihong to the rest of the country.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• As the war reached its peak, the US led a land reform program in South Vietnam meant to bolster support for democratic ideals — notions of land and nature subjugated as a weapon of war.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• The conspiracy theory is based on the very real — and very controversial — issue of post-Apartheid land reform in South Africa.
  — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
• In the countryside, where young men were willing to die fighting the imposition of new ways of life—including girls’ schools and land reform—young women remained unseen.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• As the Associated Press notes, the initial plan of the land reform was to take the country’s most fertile land, that was owned by the minority-white people, and redistribute it to the poor Black community.
  — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 6 Sep. 2019
• To carry out land reform in poor villages where there were no landlords, the poor attacked one another, and the losers’ meager possessions were redistributed.
  — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2013
• Eigg may be able to give the larger island at its side some practical lessons in affordable housing, renewable energy and land reform.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
• Some on Twitter took pleasure in posting pictures of Chairman Mao Zedong who during his land reform campaign killed as many as 7 million people.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• The guerrillas called for land reform and better conditions for peasants, and vowed to defend the defenseless against the government’s intrusions.
  — Addison Nugent, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
• Government pledges of land reform and the privatization of some of the 3,300 state enterprises have not been implemented.
  — Judith Miller, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• Petro is calling for an end to mandatory military service, sweeping land reforms and the treatment of drug addicts as patients instead of criminals.
  — Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
• The novel also touches on land reform, cricket, and religious tension, in playful, inventive language and sometimes with laugh-out-loud humor.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• But without vigorous backing from the executive, such programmes as land reform and voluntary crop substitution will grind to a halt.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• The land is also where Dieu Lan crawls on her belly with five children following her, slithering through the yard of her elegant ancestral home to escape the neighbors who have become her persecutors during the land reform.
  — Gaiutra Bahadur, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Corruption, red tape and incompetence have hobbled land reform.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• In 1969, the contentious issues were primarily immigration and land reform.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• Soon, to appease his base of war veterans, Mugabe undertook the delayed land reform and turned himself into an international pariah.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
• Lata's interpersonal drama takes place against the backdrop of India's first general election, as well as religious conflict and land reform.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2020
• The novel covers the issue of land reform around the time that the Communists came to power, in 1949—another example of quarantined history, because many landowning families were brutalized.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• The migration of higher caste people, development, and government land reform policies following malaria’s eradication in the 1950s began stripping the Tharu of their ancestral land and forced them to relocate to Thori, near the border of India.
  — Katherine Gallardo, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2022
• The Vumelana Advisory Fund, a non-profit that helps land reform projects, appointed advisers to develop a commercial partnership.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• The projects Germany agreed to fund will cover areas such as land reform, including land purchases, rural infrastructure, water supply and vocational training.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
• In Ethiopia and Rwanda, meanwhile, land reforms and infrastructural, extension and financing support for high-yield household farming are underpinning the best development stories in Africa today.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Until Congress develops the political courage to act on public-land reforms, our forested lands will continue to be incinerated and more public lands restricted to very limited public use.
  — WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024