Sentence examples for fixed settlement from inspiring English sources

In the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age; roughly 9000 to 3000 bc), humans achieved relatively fixed settlement, but for perhaps 5,000 years such living was confined to the semipermanent peasant village semipermanent because, when the soil had been exhausted by the relatively primitive methods of cultivation, the entire village was usually compelled to pick up and move to another location.

The problem has been a quiescent period on planet earth, during which agriculture allowed fixed settlements, this allowed an industrial revolution, then globalised communication and migration followed.

United States options exchanges would be required to increase their combined enforcement budgets by as much as $11 million a year under a price-fixing settlement being discussed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, participants in the talks said.

It was still reeling from a price-fixing settlement between the SEC and marketmakers, as well as the collapse in both tech stocks, its mainstay, and initial public offerings.

A quick-fix settlement to provide just enough cover for its war-weary coalition to pull their troops out before Afghanistan descends into a civil war; or a serious process that might offer an enduring peace?

Once borders are fixed the settlements will begin to be dismantled and the road to an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, will be clear.

During this period which was marked by the unification of Viet Nam in April 1975, the focus of the forestry sector was anchored around timber production for national reconstruction and the development of new economic zones (NEZ), and promoting sedentary farming and fixed upland settlements.

Surely, Western officials say, for the right price, currently estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, the Jordanians will help John Kerry, America's secretary of state (pictured above with King Abdullah) to fix a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by absorbing the 4.5m Palestinians who live in the kingdom, including the 3.5m who are now Jordanian citizens.Or will they?

This, though, would entail power-sharing between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and oppositionists and cooperation with Russia, Iran, and China to fix a settlement.

The $100 million fine that A.D.M. agreed to pay in 1996 to settle the government's charges was one of the largest price-fixing settlements in American history.

C1 Price-Fixing Settlement Nine West agreed to pay $34 million to settle state and federal civil complaints that it had illegally fixed shoe prices since 1988.