A recent hearing of the House Financial Services Committee focused on the role of settlements and particularly, whether the S.E.C. and other regulators should insist on an admission of wrongdoing in their settlements.
Most Israelis no longer care that the Palestinians see this stark narrative of rejectionism and terror in a very different way; there is scant recognition of the role of settlements, roadblocks, harassment, evictions, detentions, the abuses of the I.D.F., and much else.
Mr. Bush has rarely emphasized any role of Israeli settlements as an "obstacle to peace," the longstanding formulation in American policy.
Other archaeologists familiar with the research agreed in interviews last week that the Tell Hamoukar excavations confirmed and should elaborate on a consensus that has emerged among scholars in the last decade about the role of northern settlements in Syria and Iraq and in southeastern Turkey in the development of civilization.
Oases in the largely desert region lived in by the Qedarites - such as Dedan, Tayma, and Dumah - played an important role as sites of settlement, trade, and watering-places.
PayPal has aggressively expanded well beyond its original role of being the settlement house for eBay auctions.
By considering the period when most explorations occur, we were able to gain insights into the plausible role of hunting in settlement failure.
The literature on late-stage larval and puerulus settlement of tropical spiny lobsters suggests that a broad range of visually-assessed variables may play a role in the selection of settlement substrates.
As shown for cnidarians, mollusks and annelids, apical organs play a role in the control of settlement [ 13- 15], facilitating the integration of multimodal sensory input and the coordination of effector cells.
While population growth is widely acknowledged as an important driver of land cover change, the role of unplanned human settlements is not adequately recognised.
