Sentence examples for extend settlement from inspiring English sources

Downing Street played down suggestions that Britain might withdraw its ambassador from Israel in protest against the Israeli government's decision to extend settlement building in East Jerusalem.

Updated at 11.23am GMT 10.29am GMT My colleague Haroon Siddique is covering the Foreign Office's decision to threaten to withdraw Britain's ambassador to Israel as a protest against Israel's decision to extend settlement building in East Jerusalem on our Middle East live blog.

Succumbing to American pressure for an extended settlement freeze would have had as much effect on solving the disagreement with the Palestinians as it would on solving the economic woes in the United States.

Netanyahu is unlikely to extend the settlement moratorium and some limited construction in Jewish West Bank settlements will happen.

The United States has asked him to extend the settlement freeze for 60 days in return for security incentives.

He refused to extend the settlement moratorium, or negotiate the "core issues" of borders, Jerusalem, and refugees with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas – who jumped at the opportunity and boycotted talks until Israel halts the settlements.

Beyond that, Mr. Netanyahu, who has consistently resisted attempts by the Obama administration to extend a settlement freeze to aid peace talks with the Palestinians, is not exactly in good favor with the Obama administration right now.

Mr. Netanyahu is still mulling an offer from the United States to extend the settlement freeze for two to three months in exchange for American security guarantees and military hardware.

But yesterday, after New York State rejected a final chance to extend the settlement talks for two months during a special hearing in Fort Myers, Fla., Judge Neal McCurn of Federal District Court in Syracuse declared an impasse.

The legislation proposed by Mr. Netanyahu on the loyalty pledge appeared to be intended to win the backing of Mr. Lieberman's party and other pro-settler partners in the coalition to extend the settlement freeze, which expired on Sept. 26.

Taking up his office in the summer of 1633, he immediately set himself to consolidate the royal authority, break the power of the dominant clique of "new English" landowners, extend English settlement, improve methods of agriculture, increase the productivity of the land, and stimulate industry and trade.