Sentence examples for Settled state from inspiring English sources

Thus it seems that, in many parts of the Pacific, material culture had reached a settled state by the 16th century and remained conservative for two more centuries.

"It is very complacent to think that there is any kind of settled state of the law on privacy at the moment," he told the MPs.

But some amphibians in this densely settled state are unlucky enough to have a road standing between them and their goal.

I can now step back, change my mental gear to a more settled state and, as if by magic, creativity and the ability to find solutions to problems returns.

There may be no better illustration of the idea that yes is an energetic cause while no is simply the majority's settled state of mind, and that the real division isn't yes/no but between yes and go away and leave us in peace.

More than two years since western intervention in Libya, it is a far from secure and settled state.

The show popularized the American frontier image for the settled states of America.

He found his tribal world ready for unification, at a time when China and other settled states were, for one reason or another, simultaneously in decline, and he exploited the situation.

It was only gradually, through contact with men from the more settled states, that Genghis Khan came to realize that there were more sophisticated ways of enjoying power than simply raiding, destroying, and plundering.

Those with recruits drawn from the sparsely settled states had far more epidemics (of mumps, measles, lobar pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, and scarlet fever) than camps (often situated nearby) with city-bred recruits (Love and Davenport, 1919).

The contrasting effects of PM in rural and urban areas parallels the striking difference noted when the United States mobilised an army in World War I: camps with men drawn from the sparsely settled states had a far higher incidence of infections than camps (sometimes close by) with city-bred recruits (Love and Davenport, 1919).