Sentence examples for existing settlement from inspiring English sources

They are America's oldest existing settlement house.

If the planet is really in danger, we must stop messing about, and maximise the use of existing settlement and habitation, however much it curtails the dream of "for everyman a place in the country".

They are like the hill-station residences of British India, holding its genius loci in absentia.Ghosts linger too in the countryside round about, ironically preserved by Ceausescu's order forbidding development beyond the confines of existing settlement.

He announced final approval for the construction of 3,000 more housing units in East Jerusalem and existing settlement blocs — beyond the 1967 borders, but within current settlement lines.

JERUSALEM — Israeli negotiators told their Palestinian counterparts this week that their guiding principle for drawing the borders of a future two-state solution would be for existing settlement blocks to become part of Israel, an approach that the Palestinians rejected as unacceptable.

FOR TWO-STATE SETTLEMENT Israeli negotiators told their Palestinian counterparts that their guiding principle for drawing the borders of a future two-state solution would be for existing settlement blocks to become part of Israel, an approach that the Palestinians rejected.

Those remaining are generally extensions to existing settlements.

But he is not prepared to stop existing settlements from expanding, he said.

The fence is meant to "consolidate existing settlements," says Khatib of the Palestinian Authority.

Israel has interpreted this to mean that the development of existing settlements is permissible.

Some of these colonies were set alongside existing settlements; others were founded on new sites.