Sentence examples for handful of settlements from inspiring English sources

The archdiocese has reached a handful of settlements in other cases since then, but the one announced yesterday was by far the biggest, Finaldi added.

Mr. Netanyahu argued for essentially stopping with the first stage, evacuating only a handful of settlements in total, people familiar with his thinking said.

He got them all by promising to trade something Israelis overwhelmingly do not want any more: the Gaza settlements and a handful of settlements in the West Bank.

A settlement in a case involving the American International Group is scheduled for approval this year, as are a handful of settlements that could each be over $100 million.

Snapping out into the Adriatic like a jaunty little lobster with opened pincers, it's just 22 km long by 11 km wide and has only a handful of settlements.

On October 26th, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, endorsed the prime minister's plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip and from a handful of settlements in the northern West Bank.

This number declined after a handful of major settlements.

The handful of Jewish settlements in Gaza were dismantled when Israel withdrew in 2005.

In Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts, Reece visits the remains of a handful of utopian settlements and towns, mining their histories to reflect on the present.

Labor, now led by the dovish Shimon Peres, will almost surely insist on a broader evacuation of the West Bank than the handful of isolated settlements Mr. Sharon envisions.

Among the many hundreds of farming and fishing villages that proliferated on the coast from the sixth to tenth centuries, a handful of larger settlements emerged.