Sentence examples for population swap from inspiring English sources

"I am talking about a land swap as well as a population swap.

A territorial swap would likely be followed by a population swap to create ethnically homogeneous territories.

Backers of the government and the rebels are attempting to orchestrate a population swap but it has been repeatedly delayed.

Under a ceasefire deal, foreign backers of the government and the opposition are attempting to orchestrate a population swap, essentially a peaceful "sectarian cleansing".

By turning Greece into a country that was 97% Orthodox Christian, at least in name, the population swap made church and nation seem even more inseparable.

Their fate is tied to Fua and Kefraya where backers of the government and the rebels are attempting to orchestrate a population swap that has been repeatedly delayed due to Russian intervention in Syria.

Europe would be pacified by the elimination of minorities, mostly through population swaps.

The deal yielded a partial, local ceasefire and some population swaps, but the regime subsequently cut off food from one of the two Sunni towns, Madaya, apparently to apply pressure to rebels.

The population swaps and the bussing of opposition civilians and militants to rebel-held areas seem to presage a sort of geographic sorting and soft partition of the country, which may be a prerequisite for any gradual de-escalation of Syria's war.

We need a border and an end to the settlement phenomenon now.' " Mr. Levy, an unabashed liberal, said he was particularly struck by Mr. Makovsky's so-called maximalist map, which shows that Israel could absorb 80 percent of its settler population by swapping land with the Palestinians equivalent to less than 5 percent of the West Bank.

As well as calling for a "population exchange" to swap Arab Israeli villages for Israeli settlements, earlier this year Mr Lieberman, 48, called for the trial and execution of Arab Israeli MPs who met leaders of Hamas or Hizbullah or who refused to celebrate Israel's Independence Day, describing them as "collaborators".