The attrition part is obvious: there has been relentless growth in Israeli settlements and control of the territories over the years.
That date -- on which Israeli's hawkish Ariel Sharon visited an uneasily shared holy site in Jerusalem -- was frequently cited by Palestinians today to indicate it was not just that particular act that touched off the unrest, but rather seven years of frustration with the peace effort, including continued expansion of Israeli settlements and control of travel to Palestinian areas.
According to Israel's pro-settler right-wing camp, there is no moral difference between post-1967 settlement in and control over the West Bank territory on the one hand, and the pre-1948 settlement of the territory that has become the sovereign State of Israel, on the other.
Court of High Commission, English ecclesiastical court instituted by the crown in the 16th century as a means to enforce the laws of the Reformation settlement and exercise control over the church.
Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations.
This paper systematically summarizes the technical characteristics and main problems of the large-section loess tunnels on China's high-speed railway, including classification of the surrounding rock, design of the supporting structure, surface settlement and cracking control, and safe and rapid construction methods.
This entry uses the term colonialism to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia.
Results confirm a considerable importance for features such as visual prominence, intervisibility between several settlements and visual control of the environs.
The number and abundance of native and non-native vascular plant species in both the ground vegetation and shrub layer were recorded in 15 forest sites situated adjacent to settlements and 15 control sites far from settlements.
