"What do you think they got fined for — schmutz on the sidewalk?" Mr. Koch said, referring to settlements with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
"The United States is prepared to adopt some kind of language recognizing the demographic realities that have occurred since 1967," said an administration official, referring to settlements established after Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza in a war with neighboring countries.
The state's name refers to settlements on the island where Newport is, which was then known as Rhode Island, and to those on the mainland, which were collectively called Providence Plantations.
Turner is a Southern Baptist who believes it would be wrong to drink a beer in front of his three young daughters, and he wryly refers to settlement negotiations as "come to Jesus meetings," presumably because the automakers have seen the folly of their ways.
Though there is nothing in the resolution that differs from the international law and official U.S. government policy for decades, it is the first U.N. resolution to specifically refer to Israeli settlements as illegal since 1980.
But the law said the amount available each year should be reduced by an amount equal to what Israel spends on activities the president decides are inconsistent with American policy, wording intended to refer to the settlements but potentially broad enough to encompass the barrier.
There are currently seven billion people living on the planet, with just over half in urban areas - but beware the word urban, it has no single definition and can refer to quite small settlements.
Very few refer to them as "settlements," and even steadfast supporters of a future Palestinian state do not expect these neighborhoods to be included in its new borders.
Records filed this week in Boone County Circuit Court refer to an undisclosed settlement.
The name South African Republic is sometimes used to also refer to a Boer settlement established in the Potchefstroom area of the Transvaal by Voortrekkers in 1838.
