Sentence examples for focus on settlements from inspiring English sources
Obama was heavily criticised for his early focus on settlements.
The Israelis have long contended that negotiations should not be subject to any preconditions, and they view the Palestinians's focus on settlements as a pretext to avoid serious negotiations.
"Even if it was wise to focus on settlements, what the administration failed to do was provide a context," said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former ambassador to Israel who has advised Mr. Obama on the Middle East.
But the focus on settlements came in response to pleas from the weak Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to give him something to convince his people understandably sceptical after two decades of pedalling to nowhere that talks might work.The Obama team may have underestimated Mr Netanyahu's ability to resist.
The Obama administration has gone off track not only in its excessive focus on settlements and its overreaction to Israel's faux pas in announcing new construction while the vice president was in Israel, but also by suggesting that Israel is harming American interests in the region.
Despite on-going community engagement, most of the urban decision-making takes place within the institutional hierarchy of the municipality (Santos 2014) and there is a heavy focus on settlements relocation as the principal strategy for risk reduction in Santos (IPT 2009).
This paper focuses on settlement over shotcrete-supported tunnels on São Paulo subway line 2 (West Extension) that were excavated in Tertiary sediments using the sequential excavation method.
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Another concern raised by Semple is the degree to which the "best interests of the child" are considered when judges are primarily focused on settlement of divorce disputes.
