How to Use land reform in a Sentence

land reform

noun
  • And so part of what this act allows the states to do is to support land reform.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Why tackle such a large subject as land reform in what appears to be a children’s film?
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Berry gathers in one place a lifetime of work on land reform and economic development.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • His first break came in 1928 when Pravda printed his piece on land reform in Uzbekistan.
    — Douglas Smith, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Corruption, red tape and incompetence have hobbled land reform.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • The president had laid the groundwork for populist changes which included land reform, efforts that were scrapped once Zelaya was out of office.
    — Lauren Carasik, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2016
  • Many Black South Africans are frustrated with how long land reform has taken since the end of apartheid in 1994.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The legislation aims to address land ownership disparities rooted in the country's apartheid past with land reforms.
    — Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This shift led to progressive reforms such as taxation, land reform, and expanded collective bargaining rights.
    — Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Not to mention misguided initiatives such as the 1980s land reform in El Salvador.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Apr. 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
  • That has reignited a national debate over land reform in a country where the legacy of a white minority stripping its Black population of land looms large.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 Legislative Council remained the stronghold of the wealthy conservative landowners and the main obstacle to land reform.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • In 1969, the contentious issues were primarily immigration and land reform.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • This resulted in a liberal constitution, trade unions, land reforms, a free press, and women’s suffrage, all of which were welcomed by most of the Japanese population.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Indeed, land reforms that Landesa has worked to foster and implement have helped reduce poverty, hunger, and land conflicts for more than 720 million people in scores of countries around the world.
    — Kim Starkey, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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