Sentence examples for settled territories from inspiring English sources

After landing in Newport, R.I., in May 1831, Tocqueville and Beaumont visited 17 of America's 24 states and three of its sparsely settled territories.

He also campaigned far to the south of the Asturian mountains, but lack of manpower made it impossible to exert permanent control on the plains and, in his time, a wide, largely uninhabited no-man's-land came into being between Asturias and the settled territories of the emirate of Córdoba.

The barons were eager to see their sparsely settled territories filled with industrious farmers who promised to serve them in times of war.

Hoole skillfully captures the wide variety of expressions on his subjects' faces, and fills the painting with the early morning light of this newly settled territory.

We are just about in the central portion of the "settled" Territory and with perhaps the best landing and the most eligible site for a city in the entire country..

Song birds seem to use this principle of increased contrast as a tool to settle territory boundaries.

And, just as in the nineteen-seventies, eighties, and nineties I settled the territories on our behalf, now I will evacuate for us.

In its vast Movie Town, in Hong Kong's then sparsely settled New Territories, stars and stage hands alike lived in dormitories, ate at a central canteen and made movies day and night.

It's no accident in fact that before he became a public figure, Roosevelt wrote a four-volume history, "The Winning of the West," which told the stories of the frontiersmen who settled the territories just west of the original 13 colonies between 1769 and 1807.

Prior to this event the climate was favourable and dense populations of hunter-gatherers (the Late Epipalaeolithic phase, 12 500–9700 BC) were settled in territories that included some possible year-round settlements.

Our results suggest that female mating preference for an attractive "live fast die young" male phenotype largely drove the promiscuous line male advantage, as females that settled within territories defended by promiscuous line males were less likely to engage in extra-territorial mating than females settled in monogamous line male territories.