Sentence examples for beginning of settlement from inspiring English sources

He said records going back 150 years showed there had always been "good times and bad times", that there had been "droughts since the beginning of settlement".

North Korean female defectors mentioned a remarkable difference between two clothing cultures which had made them embarrassed at the beginning of settlement in South Korea.

The Early Quebec Population Register contains all records from the beginning of settlement (1608) to 1800 for a total of 700 000 records.

It is a concise description of the course of Icelandic history from the beginning of the settlement (c. 870) to 1118.

At the beginning of English settlement in the 17th century, the Shawmut Peninsula was called Trimountain (or Tramount) because of its dominating three-topped hill on the northwest corner near the mouth of the Charles River.

From the beginning of French settlement, political debate among the white settlers revolved around the rights of residents to administer their own affairs without endangering the flow of French financial aid.

"Later I understood that these empty fields were indeed the setting of a history, the loathsome history of neglect and destruction stretching back to the beginning of black settlement in Harlem," she tells us.

Indian numbers shrank in all mainland areas: at the beginning of Spanish settlement there were perhaps 50,000,000 aborigines; the figure had decreased to an estimated 4,000,000 in the 17th century, after which it slowly rose again.

"City views have looked at the skyline from the beginning of the settlement of New York," said Deborah D. Waters, acting deputy director and chief curator of the Museum of the City of New York.

Dr. Rhys Maengwyn Jones, a pioneer investigator of human origins in Australia, whose research pushed back the beginning of human settlement there to a far earlier date than previously thought, died on Sept. 19 in Canberra, Australia.

At the beginning of the settlement talks, early last year, a group of junior bondholders, known as second-lien holders, were offered roughly 9 cents on the dollar for their claims.