Sentence examples for fringe settlements from inspiring English sources

But many were attracted to, or forced into, the fringe settlements, where they formed tribally and linguistically mixed communities.

The survival of these fringe settlements is thanks, partly, to black activists such as Geoff Shaw who, in 1997, fought resistance from white organisations such as Citizens for Civilised Living who wanted to see them demolished.

Others were driven into the bush, remained in small pockets subject to the "civilizing" influence of missions, or were left to fend for themselves in the fringe settlements of cities and towns; still others remained in camps or pastoral and cattle stations to become the nucleus of a labour force.

The most ideologically committed settlers -- the very ones who live in the fringe settlements Mr. Sharon wants to evacuate, rather than in the sprawling, bedroom communities he wants to keep -- view leaving a single settlement as shattering the rationale for retaining any.

This dataset groups census areas into four categories (urban, town and fringe, village and dispersed settlements) based upon housing densities.

In Marikana, police trucks roamed the fringes of settlements and the shebeen filled with more workers without paychecks looking for a cheap way to stave off hunger.

When the 13 American colonies won their independence from Britain, they were a thin fringe of settlement clinging to the edge of a vast continent.

On the western fringes of settlement, it was not possible for colonial administrators to use police powers to expel those who helped themselves to acres technically owned by proprietors in the seaboard counties.

If they are not made locally extinct by our activities, other animal species either hang on at the fringes of human settlements, or take to suburban living.

Several reports have shown that, in hilly areas that are either close to borders or are plantations located at tropical forest fringes with human settlements, agricultural practices of the population are often associated with malaria [ 4- 8].

20 Urban/rural Ccassification: Categorises each LSOA into three settlement types: urban (where the population is over 10 000 people), town and fringe (part of a settlement with less than 10 000 people) or village, hamlet and isolated dwellings.