What's the difference between landowner and loner?

Landowner


Definition:

  • (n.) An owner of land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (2) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
  • (3) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
  • (4) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
  • (5) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
  • (6) But farmers and landowners have expressed concern about the impact of the species on rural businesses after reports of "significant impacts on agricultural land" in areas of Tayside where a colony of around 150 beavers has become established .
  • (7) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
  • (8) These changes are vital to kick starting shale and make sure it’s not delayed by one single landowner.
  • (9) "Consumers of the powdered horn in Asia risk becoming seriously ill from ingesting a so-called medicinal product, which is now contaminated with a non-lethal chemical package," said Andrew Parker, chief executive of the Sabi Sand Wildtuin Association, a group of private landowners in Mpumalanga province.
  • (10) Brian Jorde, a lawyer for the three Nebraska landowners who sued to block the pipeline’s route, said the matter was far from settled – although he did not say whether he would seek other legal avenues.
  • (11) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
  • (12) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
  • (13) There were signs in September 2012 that Seeds of the Forest was provoking fierce opposition from loggers and big landowners, particularly when it announced plans to incorporate, legally, a further 14,000 hectares (34,500 acres) of public forest.
  • (14) At USDA, we're working closely with our nation's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to help them manage the negative impacts of climate change, reduce their energy costs, and grow the bioeconomy to create jobs in rural America."
  • (15) We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife.” Harper argues that the RSPB has been misunderstood, pointing out that it has always been neutral on the ethics of shooting birds.
  • (16) Environmental campaigners have been using landowners' rights to halt fracking projects.
  • (17) Many landowners interested in deploying the badger vaccine have approached their local Wildlife Trust for advice, as the information is not available centrally.
  • (18) We're seeing farmers, landowners, parents, health workers, church groups expressing interest and concern.
  • (19) Marcus Adams, another of the five landowners who formed the legal blockade around the Celtique site, said: "It's encouraging to see Celtique have scaled back their drilling plans at least for now, but we won't give up the fight until they've officially abandoned their ambition to frack in the heart of this beautiful national park.
  • (20) Britain's 200,000 farmers and landowners, who receive tens of billions of pounds of European subsidies for owning land and growing food, will escape most of the cuts because European common agricultural policy payments are made directly from Brussels.

Loner


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (3) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
  • (4) This study focuses on drug use, delinquency and lifestyle correlates of LONERS and SOCIALS.
  • (5) "If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
  • (6) "One of the big problems with being a loner is that one does not get helpful reality checks from people who can challenge disordered thinking," Mr Depue wrote.
  • (7) He has a reputation for being something of a loner – often choosing to eat lunch alone in the canteen – and one former colleague described him as "a space cadet, he finds it difficult to emphathise with people not as bright or focused as him".
  • (8) He says that he's a loner, but constantly tells affectionate anecdotes about his mates.
  • (9) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
  • (10) Colin Stagg , a classic "loner", was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, not least because he seemed like such a likely customer.
  • (11) The portrait of addiction is often one of tragedy – young lives cut short, or loners cut off from family and friends.
  • (12) But detectives admit they still do not know how “true loner” Mair, who had no social network, got hold of it.
  • (13) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
  • (14) The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct.
  • (15) As a child she was a shy, melancholic loner riddled with very early-onset teenage angst.
  • (16) He is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey but who knew more hockey stats than anyone else; who became an economist while his two brothers became accountants because, as he said, he did not have the personality to be an accountant.
  • (17) Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post " Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida ", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" – much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa – have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners.
  • (18) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
  • (19) Loners with pistols, strange men creeping into the royal bedroom at two in the morning: such events can be put down to obsessive and deranged personalities.
  • (20) 's sample of drug abusers, were more likely to be categorized as "loners," "rebels," and "pessimists" than was the general population sample.

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