Sentence examples for few settlements from inspiring English sources

Most of the island's few settlements are mining communities on the west coast.

The newspaper paid a few settlements, parliamentary committees held hearings and Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, Andy Coulson, a former editor of News of the World, resigned.

Mountain Tajik and Kyrgyz remnants occupy the few settlements in the deep valleys of the western mountains adjacent to the Karakoram and Pamir ranges.

One of the few settlements along here is Ste.-Rose-du-Nord, reached by dropping down through emerald-green pastures dotted with cows.

The trail isn't waymarked and there are some sections with no trail at all – much of the route is in remote country and there are few settlements.

What remains of this salient is a patch of rocky, mountainous terrain with few settlements, difficult for rebels to hold, since Mr Assad has a monopoly of air power and heavy artillery.Yabroud's fall may prove to be a minor watershed.

The location of the surface finds in relation to topography and the products of glaciation suggests that occupation in Paleo-Indian or perhaps earlier times was more pervasive in Wyoming than suggested by the few settlement or kill sites on the valley floors.

Requiring some acknowledgment of wrongdoing by defendants is likely to result in fewer settlements and more trials, which are costly for an agency already laboring under budgetary constraints.

If the S.E.C. and others were required to extract an admission of wrongdoing from a corporation, there would most likely be fewer settlements and more trials, which are costly.

Lawsuit Draws New Line in the Sand  |  The government's lawsuit against Standard & Poor's over credit ratings suggests that we may see fewer settlements and more court cases involving financial institutions in the future, writes David Zaring, assistant professor of legal studies at the Wharton School of Business.

To the extent that we may be seeing fewer settlements generally, there are a number of important legislative and judicial actions that have curtailed investor rights and made it more difficult for investors to seek redress for injuries arising out of securities fraud.