Sentence examples for fixed settlements from inspiring English sources

"It is their constant movement, their seasonal work and a lack of fixed settlements" that make it difficult to reach Roma families with health and immunization interventions, said Dr. Mila Vucic Jankovic, head of Disease Prevention and Control of the Serbian Public Health Institute.

Although some form of healing ritual, and healing specialist, seems to have been among the very earliest precursors of religion, and of priesthood, the emergence of any kind of "religion" organisationally distinct from the rest of culture depends at the very least on agriculture, which provides enough of a surplus in fixed settlements.

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.

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.

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.

There are fines for sanctions busting and exchange rate fixing and "settlements" for multifarious dodgy practices.

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.