Sentence examples for controversial settlements from inspiring English sources

On the very day Mr. Schwarzenegger spoke of hopeful candles, Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli mother and four children, who also happened to be residents of one of the controversial settlements in Gaza.

The US was yesterday accused by Palestinian leaders of destroying hopes for peace in the Middle East by giving its covert support to Israel's expansion of controversial settlements in the West Bank.

Amid reports that ministers are planning to axe the BBC Trust and hand responsibility for governance of the corporation to media regulator Ofcom, MPs on the Commons public accounts committee (PAC) will attempt to get to the bottom of who knew what and when about controversial settlements, including the former deputy director general Mark Byford's £1m payoff.

Ori Scialom, Roy Brand, Keren Yeala-Golan and Edith Kofsk designed huge printers that etched Israel's "Sharon Plan," a precursor to controversial settlements, on beds of sand.

While controversial, settlements are often touted as good business decisions by city officials who argue that it could actually cost taxpayers more money to litigate every single complaint ― both with and without merit ― that is brought against the city government.

Although it is sometimes misleadingly referred to as "disputed" or "controversial," settlement construction in E1 is no more and no less of a contravention of international law than settlement construction elsewhere in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.

SAN FRANCISCO — As Google awaits approval of a controversial settlement with authors and book publishers, the company's plan to create an immense digital library and bookstore may face yet another hurdle.

Israel's Army Radio also reported that Netanyahu had struck a secret agreement with Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician who will be foreign minister in the new government, to build a controversial settlement in the West Bank in an area known as E1, east of Jerusalem.

Earlier that day Netanyahu also paid a visit to Har Homa, a controversial settlement in West Bank beyond 1967 lines, to declare that a leftist government would allow a "Hamastan" to be established in Jerusalem.

We meet a family of new French immigrants living in a controversial settlement near the border with Israel, and we sit down with the head of a regional council which is actively recruiting Europeans to move to those communities.

Next month's annual congress of world soccer body FIFA is likely to become the first international forum since U.S. President Donald J. Trump took office to debate Israel's controversial settlement policy on the occupied West Bank.