Sentence examples for favoured settlement from inspiring English sources

During prehistoric times this region was sparsely populated, in contrast to the adjoining southern floodplain of the Helme River, which has been a favoured settlement area since the Neolithic period.

The favoured settlement model suggests that the first human groups to reach the island did so extremely recently, around 1.5-2 kyr, when there is clear archaeological evidence of human occupation [ 13, 14].

Known to favour settlement of the case of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer whose conviction for treason on questionable evidence in 1894 had divided French society, he summoned René Waldeck-Rousseau to form a ministry to resolve the Dreyfus affair and appealed to all republicans to rally behind it.

Prevailing circumstances determine which way the balance shifts, with increasing pressure on natural resources currently favouring settlement and agro-pastoralism.

The county's deep, workable soil favoured prehistoric settlement.

Puritans favoured dense settlement in towns over spread-out farmers - they were, in a sense, the first opponents of "sprawl".

O'Neill advocated the independence of Ireland from England though retaining nominal loyalty to the English sovereign, whereas his colleagues favoured a settlement providing for religious liberty and an Irish constitution under the English crown.

Rather, it emerged among independent Arabs living in Mecca (Makkah) at the junction of major north south and west east routes, in one of the less naturally favoured Arab settlements of the Hejaz (al-Ḥijāz).

But his constituents now overwhelmingly favour a settlement.

It continued: "Mr Hammond is thought to favour a settlement as close to membership of the single market as possible.

However, Nabro, which rises to more than 2,200 m above sea level, engenders a microclimate that favours denser settlement.