Sentence examples for built a settlement from inspiring English sources
And along this highway, black sharecroppers, evicted for daring register to vote, built a settlement called Tent City.
The Portuguese arrived about 1512 in pursuit of a spice-trade monopoly, and the Dutch built a settlement at Macassar (Makassar) in 1607.
The refugees, who included not only a number of talented artisans but the nucleus of the pirate empire bent on revenge against Spain, built a settlement reminiscent of their homeland at the base of the casbah.
In "Forbidden Planet" (1956), a science-fiction retelling of Shakespeare's "Tempest," a group of space travelers including Leslie Nielsen visited a planet where an expatriate scientist played by Walter Pidgeon, his daughter (Ms. Francis) and a robot named Robby had built a settlement.
The first lumbering activity to take place close to what is now Leonard Harrison State Park occurred in 1838 when William Dodge and some partners built a settlement at Big Meadows and formed the Pennsylvania Joint Land and Lumber Company.
One of the merchants built a settlement on Christmas Island supplying the growing industry on Cocos Island (i.e. with timber and provisions) while travelling regularly between Singapore and the two islands [ 31, 46, 47].
The protest was over what demonstrators say is a plan to build a settlement for Hindu pilgrims on forest land.
They will build a settlement from their spacecraft and from inflatable living areas covered with regolith (the crushed rock that passes for soil on the planet).
No town existed at the site until 1194, when the strategic importance of Portsea Island induced King Richard I to build a settlement there and to grant it a charter, fair, and market.
Israel's Army Radio also reported that Netanyahu had struck a secret agreement with Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician who will be his foreign minister, to build a settlement in the West Bank in an area known as E1, east of Jerusalem.
