Sentence examples for almost every settlement from inspiring English sources

In Thailand almost every settlement has at least one temple-monastery (wat), where monks in their distinctive yellow robes reside and where communal rituals take place.

Most retailers are young couples who leave their children in the care of grandparents back in China, and their life in Greece can be hard.On the road from the Cretan port of Heraklion to the south coast, there is a Chinese shop in almost every settlement—even, for example, in Agia Varvara, whose other features are one paved intersection, a bread shop and a garage.

"We're at the point now where we have agreements with almost every vendor on settlement amounts -- maybe one or two to go," Giuliani said by phone.

"Do you honestly believe the government has a strong enough case to wring billion-dollar settlements out of almost every bank in the country, but they don't have enough evidence to bring criminal charges?" he asked.

No wonder Judge Jackson told the lawyers gathered in his court "this is probably as propitious a time for any negotiated outcome as you have".Microsoft's shares leapt on the announcement of the mediator's appointment: investors would love to see a settlement, almost any settlement, which would dispel the uncertainty hanging over the company.

The hills are now almost bare; settlement and cultivation are patchy because of the scarcity of water and occur in scattered oases and in the foothills of low interior mountain chains.

Nicaragua can be characterized by its agricultural economy, its history of autocratic government, and its imbalance of regional development—almost all settlement and economic activity are concentrated in the western half of the country.

We believe almost any settlement would be good news for the shares as it should enable BP to return to normal business operations in North America including the development of its significant Gulf of Mexico discoveries.

Yet in 1996, as Mr. Yeltsin's national security adviser and envoy to the breakaway province of Chechnya, he agreed to an almost meek settlement that gave ethnic separatists de facto independence from Moscow.

ACE board member Spearmint Rhino had to pay out an almost $13 million settlement in 2012.

With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.