Sentence examples for insignificant settlements from inspiring English sources

For the last 40 years, a succession of Israeli governments has misled, manipulated or persuaded naïve U.S. presidents that since Israel was negotiating to give up significant territory, there was no need to fight over "insignificant" settlements on some territory.

From its founding in the 9th century until the Industrial Revolution, Oldham is believed to have been little more than a scattering of small and insignificant settlements spread across the moorland and dirt tracks which linked Manchester to York.

It acquired municipal rights in 1798, but it remained an insignificant settlement that had only 799 inhabitants by 1820.

Although ground subsidence occurred, building B only experienced minor inclination and minor vertical gap development due to the insignificant differential settlement of its foundation.

This paper identifies the key forces and processes underlying the transformation of Dubai from an insignificant fishing settlement on the Arabian Gulf to a cosmopolitan regionally significant twenty-first century city.

Drawing this number of potential settlers to live inside Israel has an insignificant effect on settlement growth in the West Bank.

But how do you tell the story of a settlement too insignificant to have a name, and peasants whose only signatures are their scything styles?

For a company with annual sales of $405 billion in 2010, this settlement seems insignificant.

With this low δ/H and the insignificant change in the measured settlement and lateral movement during service, the BRE wall was considered to have a very high stability.

Although the size of cultivated and settlement land covers were initially insignificant, our results showed a permanent growth during the study period (Table 2).

Although Siberia was used as a place of exile for criminals and political prisoners, Russian settlement (by state peasants and runaway serfs) remained insignificant until the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1891 1905), after which large-scale in-migration occurred.