As a diversity of landscapes and forms of settlement characterizes the state, its peoples and its cultures also represent many Louisianas.
This week Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court issued a blistering 15-page opinion rejecting the proposed settlement, characterizing the penalty as "pocket change" for Citigroup and the overall settlement as "a very good deal" for Citigroup and a "mild and modest cost of doing business".
NGO head offices often exist in urban center; in Bolivia they are commonly located in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz while the projects they implement tend to take place outside of these urban centers in settlements characterized as rural.
Estimates indicate that well over two-thirds of urban population residents in sub-Saharan live in slum settlements characterized by ubiquitous poverty, lack of basic infrastructure, a dearth of socio-economic opportunities, excessive overcrowding, extreme deprivation, and enduring marginalization [ 16].
Korogocho and Viwandani are densely populated settlements characterized by high unemployment and poverty levels, crime, poor sanitation and high prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes, compared to Nairobi as a whole [ 20, 24].
The landscape analysis, using the information from the mapping, the functions and the seasonality of the settlements, characterizes a particular system based on the economy of mammoth, limited to a short period between 15 000 and 14 000 BP at the beginning of the climatic change ending the last ice age.
Settlement is characterized by dispersed homesteads.
The Jan . 26 , 1938sesquicentennial celebration of European settlement was characterized as a "Day of Mourning" by well-organized Aboriginal activists such as William Cooper, William Ferguson, and Jack Patten.
The earliest settlements were characterized not only by the domestication of barley and sometimes wheat but also by the absence of pottery and of domestic animals other than the dog.
Informal urban settlements are characterized by the lack of urban planning and low or absent provision of public services.
