Sentence examples for large scale settlement from inspiring English sources

Development and promotion of the MIA led to large scale settlement on land described by Oxley 100 years earlier as "country which, for barrenness and desolation, can I think, have no equal".

Unfortunately, China is forcing Tibetan nomads off their lands and into large scale settlements.

Starting with the first larger scale settlements at Jericho and Catal Huyuk in Anatolia, these were well built but still relatively small.

Large-scale settlement, as opposed to drab old scientific exploration, is back on the menu.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brazil's then military government actively encouraged deforestation through road-building, tax breaks for turning forest into cattle ranches, and large-scale settlement projects.

But with the company under indictment, its client base rapidly shrinking and its overseas offices likely to be sold to a competitor, the chances for the large-scale settlement incorporating significant reforms appear to have slipped away.

The History The first large-scale settlement of Stratfield occurred only after trolley tracks were laid along present-day Brooklawn Avenue and Stratfield Road, in the late 19th century.

In consequence, the nationalist struggle focused sharply upon the issue of land ownership, and a major concern for the Zimbabwe government after independence was to carry through land reform in the rural areas and launch large-scale settlement of black families on former white farms.

In addition, large-scale settlement in excess of 11 m occurred in the approximately 3 years following embankment construction.

This also seems to be in line with the idea that Southern Africa has the strongest global migration ties to its history of large-scale settlement of Europeans.

This differentiated view on classification accuracies shows that the new generation of urban maps constitutes a significantly enhanced spatial representation of large-scale settlement patterns.