Sentence examples for efforts at settlement from inspiring English sources

All too often they sabotaged Palestinian efforts at settlement because they positively wanted to say, in the Israeli phrase, that they "had no partner for peace".

Their efforts at settlement were even less successful, partly because settlement was not easy in a country of heavy forests and severe winters and partly because the fur trade had little need of settlers beyond its own employees.

For two years, as the House ethics panel investigated 12 charges against him -- 11 of which he was found guilty of -- Rangel refused all efforts at settlement, while disputing every charge (all of which were decided against him with no serious factual challenges, as a result of which he will be censured on the floor of the House).

The conflict between the two "traditions" has grown over the past three decades, causing more than 3,600 deaths and prompting periodic and ultimately failed efforts at a settlement apportioning power more fairly among the Protestant majority and Catholic minority.

The most serious effort at a settlement came in 2003-04.

This is the second effort at a settlement.

At the end of 10 years of indecisive conflict, Catherine made another effort at a settlement to be cemented by the marriage of Henry of Navarre, a Bourbon, the son of Jeanne d'Albret and the hope of the Huguenots, and her own daughter Margaret (Marguerite de Valois), a Catholic.

The government said it brought the lawsuit only after efforts at negotiating a settlement had failed.

These efforts at a permanent settlement fell through, however, and the support for Montfort's government gradually eroded.

They added that the indictment undermined efforts at bringing about a negotiated settlement by inflaming the situation.

And so after almost eight years of frustrating the Administration's efforts at peace-making, of continued settlement expansion, of systematic violations of Palestinian rights, and of repeated episodes of near unrestrained gross violence, why should anyone have been surprised that Netanyahu would pocket the $38 billion and once again flaunt his commitments to the President?