Sentence examples for obstacles to settlement from inspiring English sources

It then levels to become slightly rolling terrain that was once under water; the swampiness of the northwest, around Toledo, posed obstacles to settlement before drainage made the land more arable.

The entire landscape was one great forest, and the trees stood as obstacles to settlement.

But he added "these are some well-heeled and hard-nosed defendants, and a lot of prestige is on the line, so the obstacles to settlement are basically the allocation of responsibilities among them".

The scarcity of mapping resources and skilled personnel, lack of reliable validation data and difficulty in obtaining high resolution contemporary census statistics remain major obstacles to settlement and population mapping in these regions.

Plaintiffs, by agreeing to remove an obstacle to settlement, can generally get a resolution, and damages, more quickly.

When both halves of the island voted on it in 2004, it received overwhelming support in the north, traditionally seen as the main obstacle to settlement, but surprisingly was vetoed in the south.

But doveish types moaned that he was erecting new obstacles to a settlement, perhaps deliberately.

But the obstacles to a settlement loom large, and both sides have reasons to resist.

But Andersen's decreased ability to pay has raised other complicated legal obstacles to a settlement.

Still, there are obstacles to a settlement, perhaps best illustrated by the lack of any serious negotiations for many months.

One of the main obstacles to a settlement was cleared early on, when the rebel Free Aceh Movement (GAM) dropped its demand for full independence.