Sentence examples for concerns about settlements from inspiring English sources

Referring to Israel, which has refused to rule out further construction in the West Bank, he said the US has "made our concerns about settlements known".

The White House statement even went so far as to welcome what appears to be a limited Israeli commitment to take Trump's concerns about settlements into consideration, without any guarantees to avoid similar announcements.

All but one European country, the Czech Republic, voted with the Palestinians or abstained in the United Nations vote on Thursday, many of them citing concerns about settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem territories that Israel captured in the 1967 war.

I understand your concerns about settlement activity, land confiscation and home demolitions.

"Consistent with our policy, we continue to raise concerns about settlement activity with the Israeli government," the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, said Wednesday.

He reiterated the point, bluntly, at the outset of Wednesday's meeting: "We are concerned about settlement activity".

Concerns about soil settlements and the hydrogeological impacts of the construction were raised.

Even if one shares, as I do, Mr. Cohen's concerns about the settlements, I would have thought that if diaspora Jews or others were being assigned tasks vis-à-vis Israel, a prime one would be to respond to the torrent of calumny, one-sided and often false, that is directed at that nation on the basis of supposed standards that are applied to no other nation.

"We also have concerns about continuing settlement activity," he said.

Critics of the agency have also raised concerns about its settlement practices over the last decade.

Jean Ohl, a federal Medicare official in California, expressed "major concerns" about the settlement with Los Angeles County, saying it appeared to be "a political action" to circumvent Medicare requirements.