How to Use landholding in a Sentence
landholding
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The chief stumbling block to agreement was the enormous western landholdings of some of the states.
—Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
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All his remaining landholdings are now in the name of his children, Duterte said.
—Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2017
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Both the Queen and Prince Charles possess large semiprivate ancestral landholdings that serve as wellsprings of their wealth.
—David McClure, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
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Taxes on the sale of land, in contrast, are hefty, which is one reason for the failure to consolidate landholdings.
—The Economist, 12 July 2018
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The financing allowed Green Eagle to buy out Louis Dreyfus to invest in new palm oil mills and increase its landholdings.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2016
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Too many farmers rely on the most basic of technologies and own smaller landholdings that preclude economies of scale.
—Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2019
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Elktonia Beach — which was also part of the Carr family’s original landholding and is now a small Annapolis city park — is all that’s left.
—Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
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The installation is the Navy’s largest single landholding, sprawling over 1.1 million acres, an area larger than Rhode Island.
—Paloma Esquivel, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
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Fiennes is the conservation manager of the Holkham Estate, one of Britain’s most important private landholdings.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
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Electables often have large landholdings or other wealth, or are religious leaders.
—Saeed Shah, WSJ, 8 July 2018
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Whittell’s landholdings weren’t restricted to the Peninsula.
—Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
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The company started out in 1963 as a timber and real estate management company for Duke Energy’s landholdings, known as Crescent Resources.
—Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 28 Apr. 2018
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Small landholdings and uncertain monsoonal rain make India one of the world’s most expensive places to farm, while the country’s rural economy provides few other job opportunities.
—Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
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This bottleneck is further complicated with the decreasing size of agricultural landholdings in the country.
—S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 27 May 2020
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