Cities constitute a settlement of human beings, and human beings are social animals.
Labuan, which became part of Singapore Settlement in 1907, was constituted a fourth separate settlement in 1912.
Brazilians, or Portuguese of Brazilian birth, constituted the original trading settlement in Togo, and today African-Brazilians are closely associated with economic and political development.
During the analysis period (1964 2014), cultivated and rural settlement land constituted the largest coverage in the study area.
Focusing on the category 'wastelands', which has been central to recent debates on India's biofuel policies, we study how it was heterogeneously constituted during the Permanent Settlement of land revenue in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century colonial India.
The six percent of the Palestinian territories constituted by Gaza is settlement free, but is now separated from the West Bank not just geographically, but also politically.
"We hope the settlement constitutes some semblance of justice".
But the risk for moderate Afghans is less that America cuts and runs, abandoning them to a bloody Taliban restoration, than that its criteria for what constitutes an acceptable settlement keep creeping lower.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement the new housing units do not constitute a new settlement.
In a response released Wednesday night, Israel's Foreign Ministry denied the new housing constitutes a new settlement.
Instead, in a June 8 statement, the company said the settlement — totaling $15.5 million — constituted a "compassionate payment to the plaintiffs and the estates they represent in recognition of the tragic turn of events in Ogoni land, even though Shell had no part in the violence that took place".
