Sentence examples for settlement progress from inspiring English sources

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Even when pressure from the outside world – most notably from US corporations withdrawing investment – compelled the Nationalist party government to look to a new settlement, progress was painfully slow.

In the Rachi Settlement progress was made in reconstructing the plans of the houses and workshops and in identifying three long passages running along the ridge and one that crossed it.

Chris Morris's analysis: It seems a long time now since the size of the "divorce bill" was the big issue that was never going to be resolved, but the government knew that without a financial settlement, progress on other issues would be impossible.

Both BP and the U.S. Justice Department have repeatedly declined to discuss settlement progress.

The California Reinvestment Coalition said last week that settlement progress reports indicate "banks have made little progress on providing principal reduction to California homeowners, and instead have prioritized short sales -- a tool that represented business as usual for banks before the settlement was ever announced".

The patterns of rural life and local autonomy were established in the first half of the 19th century as settlement progressed from south to north.

Laid out beginning in 1830 and named for the river (which the Native Americans called Pawanunking, "River of Flint"), the settlement progressed as a fur-trading, lumbering, and agricultural centre.

His program of land reform and road building to open the Amazon River valley to settlement progressed, but he was frustrated in much of the rest of his domestic policy by a Congress under opposition control.

The Spanish first brought horses to Florida with their expeditions in the early 1500s; as colonial settlement progressed, they used the horses for herding cattle.

And, if settlements progressed as he foresaw, the settler zealot mentality and belief in the right of Israel to control Judea and Samaria would lead to clashes among Jews that could tear Israel apart.