Sentence examples for religious settlements from inspiring English sources

No, it was to see the magnificent 15th-century gatehouse and ruins of St Osyth's Priory, one of the great religious settlements of medieval Europe.

A water-starved bantustan of a neighbour will fail to develop a viable economy, and will hence remain corrupt, donor-dependent and undemocratic; Israeli religious settlements transecting its territory will provide a focus of nationalist bitterness, fostering terrorism.

We don't know what will become of these religious settlements as their way of life becomes more and more encroached upon, but photographers like Montes Gonzalez provide outsiders a visual journal of their personal lives.

The Independent clergyman John Owen guided the religious settlement under Cromwell.

The religious settlement was part of a larger social arrangement that was authoritarian to its core.

The religious settlement movement is not just secular Zionism's ideological adversary, it is a danger to its very existence.

Neither interim was fully accepted, and a German religious settlement was not brought about until the Peace of Augsburg (1555).

Less than half a mile away, at Hebron's edge, is another religious settlement, Qiryat Arba, with about 7,000 residents.

The Elizabethan religious settlement, sometimes hailed as a canny compromise that keeps the peace, does not prevent England being riven apart by religious conflict in the 17th century.

The military said it was sweeping the area around Itamar, a religious settlement in the northern West Bank, and had set up checkpoints throughout the West Bank.

In September 1643, the two sides concluded a cease-fire, but they failed to negotiate a lasting political and religious settlement acceptable to all parties.