Sentence examples for creating settlements from inspiring English sources

Those new frontiers, he says, are cyberspace, outer space and seasteading (creating settlements in oceans).

The French supported these efforts by creating settlements around the Niger River and digging wells for communities elsewhere so they could farm away from their former masters.

Just as the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, the Israelis have made some very foolish decisions based on their own internal politics and the demands of their own religious extremists, such as creating settlements that could only be justified by those who heard voices from God singing "this land is our land" in Hebrew.

These Norwegian Vikings also explored across the North Atlantic, discovering and creating settlements in the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Newfoundland and Greenland.

These ancient landscape engineers transformed unpromising savannas and wetlands into prime agricultural land by draining here and piling dirt there, creating settlement mounds and raised fields for crops, long causeways and canals.

In the US, the "public housekeeping" aspect of the Progressive movement of the 1890s through early 1900s advocated that women bring the positive values associated with motherhood into the public sphere — by obtaining the vote, cleaning out corruption in politics, creating settlement houses to educate and support immigrants, and forming the women's peace movement, etc. (cf. Jane Addams 1914).

The government of India, however, was reluctant to allow all the Tibetan refugees to concentrate in one region and thus created settlements across the subcontinent, where the Tibetans established farming communities and built monasteries.

Earlier this month the Rwandan government denied sending its own troops to help track down these rebels, but the two governments admit to facing a common enemy.Last year, Rwanda moved thousands of civilians into specially created settlements in order to give its troops a freer hand to clean out the interahamwe.

A move to reoccupy Gaza would generate a much larger outcry than Sharon's assassination-during-peace-negotiations/land grab strategy, which is working very well now to create settlements all over, slowly but surely eliminating any meaningful possibility for Palestinian self-determination.

This has led to a radical transformation of the social landscape (as well as the physical landscape) with movement of tens of thousands of people to the periphery of small and medium-size towns or to newly created settlements.

His father creates settlement payments as a result of lawsuits for Selective Settlements International, a company in Roslyn, N.Y.