Sentence examples for Existing settlement from inspiring English sources

They are America's oldest existing settlement house.

Its precise intent has split observers, with some in Israel and the US seeing it as accepting all building within existing settlement boundaries.

Some small Israeli settlements were established there anyway, but in the past 15 years all new growth has occurred within existing settlement boundaries rather than in new areas.

If the planet is really in danger, we must stop messing about, and maximise the use of existing settlement and habitation, however much it curtails the dream of "for everyman a place in the country".

They are like the hill-station residences of British India, holding its genius loci in absentia.Ghosts linger too in the countryside round about, ironically preserved by Ceausescu's order forbidding development beyond the confines of existing settlement.

He announced final approval for the construction of 3,000 more housing units in East Jerusalem and existing settlement blocs — beyond the 1967 borders, but within current settlement lines.

The existence of infrastructure in existing settlements was not regarded as a problem and rising construction and land costs in existing settlements did not influence the program deeply.

Those remaining are generally extensions to existing settlements.

But he is not prepared to stop existing settlements from expanding, he said.

The fence is meant to "consolidate existing settlements," says Khatib of the Palestinian Authority.

Israel has interpreted this to mean that the development of existing settlements is permissible.