Sentence examples for settlement in front of from inspiring English sources

But as they reached the far side, with the settlement in front of them, more police vans blocked their path.

Robert Innes Hopkins has created an alluring design, perching the Puritan settlement in front of a glowingly lit wood: the sort of bosky place in which you might catch traditional witches cavorting.

Mr. Abensour agreed, but as a matter of procedure the trial still had to get under way, although the parties could have worked out a settlement in front of the judge, the official said.

Until it was dismantled on Tuesday, the 100-strong tent settlement in front of City Hall occupied a space that protesters have begun to call "Oscar Grant Plaza", after the young man who was shot and killed on a Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) subway platform in 2009 by a police officer who later claimed to have mistaken his gun for a taser.

This may have been because Thomas intended to establish a new settlement in front of it, but the gatehouse was also probably intended to be viewed from the harbour, where the most senior visitors were expected to arrive.

Indeed, the commission's strategy of suing and then settling cases with banks rather than individuals has become such a sore point that it agreed to its settlement with JPMorgan in front of an administrative judge, who can breezily accept the settlement.

A man has suffered life-threatening burns after setting himself on fire, at a refugee settlement site in Nauru, in front of representatives of the UNHCR.

The days of bulldozers flattening settlements are behind us, not in front of us".

Berms deployed at the toe of conventional breakwaters may be needed to reduce bottom settlements and to limit scour in front of the structure due to coastal currents.

As the group approached the settlement, a police van raced across in front of them, uncoiling barbed wire, which blocked their path.

A settlement for common people was situated in front of the wall.