Sentence examples for contiguity from inspiring English sources

Ariel Sharon spoke of implementing his plans for a "contiguity corridor" between the settlers and Hebron's holy sites.

"I have instructed the army", said the prime minister, "to study the possibility of creating territorial contiguity" between Kiryat Arba, the Tomb and Jewish enclaves inside the city.

There are rumours inside Israel that Mr Sharon is planning a far wider evacuation, rumours that will have been enhanced by the prime minister saying at Aqaba that he understood "the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state".

The tighter the link, mainly in terms of roads and the contiguity and acquisition of Jewish houses in ancient Hebron, the harder it will be, in the event of a two-state settlement, to remove a Jewish presence.

Among the Israeli dead was the colonel commanding the Hebron area, the highest-ranking soldier to have been killed during the 26 months of Palestinian uprising, or intifada.Creating contiguity would mean building new Jewish homes next to, or in place of, Palestinian ones along a broad corridor of suburban land, and taking over several urban streets inside the city.

ISRAEL'S prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is awaiting a detailed response from the army to his proposal to create "territorial contiguity" between the large Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the nearby West Bank city of Hebron, and the small Jewish settlement enclaves that already exist in the city.

Currently, Israeli settlements block any notion of contiguity.

The incongruous contiguity of the grim and the glorious is typical of a festival where screenings take place amid red-carpet glamour and beneath Mediterranean sun.

Nevertheless, the Israeli prime minister said after Wednesday's summit that he "understood the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state .To complete his side of the deal, Mr Abbas has to rein in Palestinian militant groups.

Their fortified outposts interrupted Arab contiguity.

"The unconcealed goal", they add, "was to thwart any future possibility of setting up a viable Palestinian state with reasonable territorial contiguity .But to avoid international criticism that settlement in occupied territory is illegal, it was often done in roundabout ways.