Sentence examples for close to settlements from inspiring English sources

"What happens to the intimate countryside close to settlements?

Landscape polarization of land-use intensity has increased with anthropogenic processes operating only on certain locations close to settlements and large parts of the island loosing their productivist profile.

Otherwise, they were either stall-fed or released into areas close to settlements, because they were very expensive.

The lack of assets due to the economic crisis and the disruption of seasonal migration patterns led to an overexploitation of easily, and oftentimes even openly, accessible winter, spring, and autumn pastures that were predominantly located close to settlements.

Furthermore, the nomadic households that are most likely to be captured by censuses are probably not representative of the whole cross section of pastoral society but are more likely to be those close to settlements, those in large groups around substantial water sources and those who are less mobile.

Livestock are important assets from which the rural poor can construct routes out of poverty, and whilst poorer households may be more reliant on small stock and forage close to settlements, there are examples where some households have managed to accumulate stock and access to extensive rangelands are critical for this to occur (Toulmin et al. 2004, Ellis and Mdoe 2003).

Mr. Hess said yesterday that the lawsuit had been "close to settlement until this hiccup on Monday".

The biggest stumbling block has been an anti-doping agreement to satisfy the International Baseball Federation and other countries that would compete, and that issue is very close to settlement.

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And those lawsuits don't appear to be close to settlement – some people close to Skype saw that there is a good chance the cases will actually end up being tried in a court.

In the Zapotec community of San Juan Evangelista Analco and the Chinantec community of Santiago Comaltepec, as across much of Oaxaca, fewer people are farming; farmers are cultivating less land, working closer to settlements, and growing fewer crop varieties.