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.
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.
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.
The thatched hut on the fringes of the settlement doesn't look big enough to house five people, but appearances can be deceptive.
Around a third of them live & work on white men's farms, the remaining quarter live in or on the fringes of, urban white settlements.
Tanks were also wheeled into position in Jerusalem and the West Bank, where troops reported sporadic exchanges of gunfire with Palestinian gunmen on the fringes of several major Jewish settlements.
They met not in Chinatown, but in the 12th Ward, out near Van Ness Avenue, which was then at the fringes of the city's settlement.
The municipal boundaries of many settlements in the West Bank are extensive, enabling Israel to argue that housing units built near the fringes of those boundaries are not new settlements, but only neighborhoods of exiting ones.
Over the past 20 years, through a process that could be viewed as coordinated gentrification, the Roma were pushed out of Slovakia's city centers and into segregated settlements at the fringes of cities and villages.
With rapid urbanization, especially on the fringes of Suva, came the emergence of squatter settlements and some social problems.
