Sentence examples for odd settlement from inspiring English sources

It's an odd settlement.

Do not, he argued, waste political energy and military muscle on removing the odd settlement when soon there will be a comprehensive agreement with the Palestinians.

"It's an odd settlement in light of the breadth of the government's victory [and] fails to come to grips with the Court of Appeals' conclusions.

It has not made good on a promise to remove even a few of the hundred-odd settlement "outposts" built without permission.

The easiest way to begin the peace process would be for Mr. Abbas to move against Hamas as Israel dismantles the hundred-odd new settlement outposts that have been established in the West Bank since 2001 without government permission.

I thought it was kind of odd that there's a settlement in the middle of a desert that relies on a 40-year-old mining accident for income, so I thought I'd pay it a visit. .

I thought it was odd that there's a settlement in the middle of a desert that relies on a 40-year-old mining accident for income, so I decided to pay it a visit. .

Mr Bayliss said: "Essentially we have a budget here that is the worst settlement in 30-odd years - certainly worse than in the 1980s - a terrible devastating cut to services that the citizens of Derby will treasure and miss".

And it is slightly odd that Mr Brown's new settlement makes no reference to corporation tax at all, which appears to remain the preserve of the Treasury in London.

Yet it sounds a little odd in a case that, should a settlement be announced in the spring, will have lasted three and a half years.

The coastline has retreated noticeably in the last 2,000 years, with many former settlements now flooded, particularly Ravenser Odd and Ravenspurn, which was a major port until its destruction in the 14th century.