Sentence examples for marginal settlements from inspiring English sources

This view has served as a partial justification for the removal of Native Americans and has obscured both the larger patterns of border conflict and tensions and the family based structure of Deerfield and similar marginal settlements.

"We live in cities that throw up skyscrapers and shopping centers and strike big real estate deals but they abandon a part of themselves to marginal settlements on the periphery," he said in the video published on February 2. "The result of this situation is that great sections of the population are excluded and marginalized: without a job, without options, without a way out.

However, an extensive expansion of the BRT system is not feasible, due the impervious conditions of the marginal, informal settlements in the periphery of Bogotá as well as to the financial costs of constructing and managing such a wide network.

This apparently open, hyper-oceanic environment would presumably have provided quite marginal conditions for human settlement, yet Neolithic communities flourished and the islands contain some of the most spectacular remains of this period in north-west Europe.

Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the character of lowland cultural landscapes during the last 2500 years in Britain is poorly understood, owing to a combination of an over-reliance on data from upland sequences, and because lowland mires are typically located in positions marginal to areas of settlement and agriculture.

In contrast, the reinforcement of ballast with geogrid has only a marginal effect on reducing the settlement in the subballast layer.

This established Birmingham as the primary commercial centre for the Birmingham Plateau at a time when the area's economy was expanding rapidly, with population growth nationally leading to the clearance, cultivation and settlement of previously marginal land.

In many instances settlements are built on marginal land.

The prehistoric archaeology of the Mun River floodplain, northeast Thailand, provides evidence for a long, rich settlement in a now marginal and resource-poor landscape.

The vertical organization of GPT neurons in control mice emerged with their settlement in the mantle and marginal zones of preplate neocortex.

But even as state officials welcomed the $100 million settlement, it appeared to offer only marginal relief from the skyrocketing rates that have left Texans paying the highest home insurance premiums in the nation.