Sentence examples for impede settlement from inspiring English sources

Today, so-called price-tag attacks, which aim at punishing not only Palestinians but Israelis who try to impede settlement activity, have gained widespread acceptance in settler councils and are often protected by a popular refusal to coöperate with police.

However, the determination of Gov. James Douglas to encourage the fur trade and the lure of the California goldfields impeded settlement so successfully that in 1855 the total population of European origin in the colony was only 774, most of them involved in the fur trade.

Its wars in the North Caucasus, its attack on Georgia in 2008, and its efforts to impede a settlement between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh as a way to increase its own presence and influence in the region and block Azerbaijan's access to Turkey illuminate Russia's strategic design.

Union officials acknowledge that divisions within Local 100 are impeding a settlement.

But after 10 weeks, an unspoken obstacle is greatly impeding a settlement -- the growing hostility and distrust felt by both sides.

The early Pleistocene in the Guadix-Baza Basin is characterized by a sharp climatic deterioration, which possibly impeded the settlement of this region by the early hominin population from the southern Caucasus.

In this case, others parties are unlikely to observe the sanctions stipulations for years to come even as it becomes increasingly evident that it is American foot-dragging that is impeding a settlement of the issue.

48 Potentially important socioenvironmental factors unique to northern populations may include dispersed settlement that impedes access to organised social resources such as healthcare, geographical and climate challenges for sanitation and water supply, and increased concentration of people in indoor spaces.

Netanyahu's position is that the settlements will not impede the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

For these reasons, past and present Israeli governments have been hard pressed not to impede the growth of the settlements.

Polarized politics in Armenia, and the likely retention in Azerbaijan of an autocrat whose legitimacy is declining, will impede compromises to reach a peace settlement.