Sentence examples for resistance to settlements from inspiring English sources

The important thing is that I said the settlers' movement was both illegal and illegitimate, and the Palestinian resistance to settlements was understandable".

The Indian resistance to settlement was quickly overcome, in part owing to an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population.

Their opposition to settlements is long-standing.

Principal among them is Israeli resistance to dismantling settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinian insistence that refugees from the 1948 war for independence have a a "right of return" to what is now Israel.

We found similar patterns of "principled" resistance to peace settlements and support for violence, including suicide bombings, among Palestinian refugees who felt "sacred values" were at stake, such as the recognizing their moral right of return to homes in Israel even if they expressed no material or practical interest in actually resettling.

But in many ways, it reflected his administration's return to convention on several issues: support for allies in Europe and Asia, resistance to Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, and fidelity to the "One China" policy.

Even among those who grudgingly accepted that there had been widespread killings, there were still bitter, and, in some cases, ongoing, fights over the exact number of Indigenous people killed, the strength of their resistance to British settlement, and the reliability of oral versus written history.

In December 1831 Yagan and his father led the first significant Aboriginal resistance to white settlement in Western Australia.

From the Noongar people, he played a key part in early resistance to British settlement and rule in the area surrounding what is now Perth, Western Australia.

The intention behind the work drew attention in 2005 when Melbourne newspaper The Age ran an editorial asking whether it might be appropriate to commemorate Aboriginal resistance to white settlement at the Australian War Memorial, and to move the Aboriginal Memorial to that location as part of that commemoration.

I guess although Mr. Romney did not say that Mr. Romney would "improve" on the president's job performance by dropping American resistance to expanded Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.