Sentence examples for by settlements of from inspiring English sources

Selling the stake would also help shore up BP's finances, which are being stretched by settlements of the lawsuits related to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

A structural survey conducted at an oil refinery in the Leningrad region showed numerous faults and damages caused by settlements of the bearing structures and their foundations.

"If we increased the population density to the levels that would be implied by settlements of this size, the charm and character would be lost," he said.

We drove north through heart-stoppingly idyllic landscapes – glistening, rainwater-filled rice paddies and lush cassava fields, towering palm trees and groves of green deciduous trees, interrupted occasionally by settlements of a few dozen wooden stilt houses.

It was during visits to Willemien's family that he first met and made friends with the San, whose traditional nomadic hunter way of life had been ­progressively eroded by settlement of the Kalahari, and who laboured for the cattle farmers with whom they had a near-feudal relationship.

U.S. federal laws that also affect substitute checks include Federal Reserve regulations that provide for recrediting the amount of the substitute check in the case of fraud and duplicate payments caused by settlement of both the substitute check and the original check used for creating the substitute check.

Halliburton added $1.38, or 4percentto to $35.73, even as the company swung to a loss, weighed down by continued settlements of asbestos claims.

The elemental earth was not perturbed either by settlements or other signs of humanity.

It is now bordered by settlements which are part of the metropolitan borough.

Felling is now largely bordered by settlements which are part of the metropolitan borough.

In 1646, the townspeople of New Haven, Connecticut, feeling squeezed by the neighboring settlements of Boston, to the north, and New Amsterdam, to the south,….