Sentence examples for pattern of settlements from inspiring English sources

It shows a pattern of settlements and tracks that is the template for most of today's villages and roads.

The vernacular form and physical pattern of settlements in Saudi Arabia evolved under the influence of visible and non-visible forces.

On a micro-scale level, it has become clear that Bronze Age (2000 800 BC) and Iron Age (800 12 BC) farmers intensively used the landscape, resulting in a relatively dense distribution pattern of settlements all over the ridges and planes of the cover sand landscape.

They argued that social and cultural improvement, especially through education, climatic conditions, the scattered pattern of settlements, and the mysterious disappearance of a major cause of death, namely plague, were the prime factors for reduction in mortality (5, 10, 11).

As small scattered plots were consolidated into larger individual holdings, some landowners moved their farmsteads away from the village to be closer to their fields, obscuring the pattern of village settlements.

The pattern of settlement, once begun, followed two paths.

A vast network of irrigation canals has modified the pattern of settlement and transportation.

A common geographic and climatic pattern prevails over all of Southeast Asia and has resulted in a particular pattern of settlement and cultural development.

But we believe even a modest effort by Israel to reverse the pattern of settlement growth could strongly improve conditions for negotiations — and improve Israel's sinking image.

"Here you have a long historical pattern of settlement," said a local architect, Tariq Alireza, expressing a frustration I encountered again and again here.

These three places illustrate a pattern of settlement growth that mocks Barack Obama's demand, issued early in his presidency, that Israel should halt expansion as an impediment to peace.