Sentence examples for connecting settlements from inspiring English sources

The longer the Israelis continue to settle the West Bank, and to cut roads through it that can often be used by Israelis only, the harder it will be to create a workable Palestinian state on contiguous land rather than a series of cantons criss-crossed by Israeli roads connecting settlements.

On all roads connecting settlements, we estimated traffic volume based on settlement sizes and topology.

The remains of similar tracks have been uncovered nearby, connecting settlements on the peat bog; they include the Honeygore, Abbotts Way, Bells, Bakers, Westhay, and Nidons trackways.

The Israeli ones were for larger water transmission networks between settlements — and to connect settlements to Israel's national water network, raising questions about Israel's long-term intentions.

This is not an official policy change, which could provoke intense political debate, but a quiet change in practice -- like a recent freeze in the authorization of new settlement construction and in the paving of "bypass roads" that connect settlements to Israel, circumventing Palestinian towns.

During the Roman and early-medieval period in the Netherlands, an extensive network of routes connected settlements on the local, regional and supraregional scale.

Tristan sees a wide road being built to connect settlements on the outskirts of Bethlehem and Hebron to Jerusalem.

By the end of that decade, the settler population doubled and the West Bank was further carved up by a security-enhanced "Jewish only" highway system connecting the settlements to each other and Israel proper.

Campaigners say the contractor will also have received considerable state subsidies for connecting new settlement buildings to water and electricity mains – another saving that's passed on to me, the buyer.

There was no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, no roads connecting the settlement to any other place.

The route, which is currently a stub, used to be the approach to the destroyed Delaware Bridge, which was a road bridge over the Delaware River, connecting the settlement of Delaware, New Jersey with Portland, Pennsylvania.