Sentence examples for settlement standing from inspiring English sources
They have revealed an extensive pre-Muslim settlement standing on the edge of what was the finest harbour on the coast.
The Swiss populace may well have rejected the settlement, standing up against the U.S. and in favor of longstanding Swiss banking secrecy which has, until recently, served Switzerland so well.
Palestinians see the settlements standing where their fathers' trees once did.
Castell Odo, on Mynydd Ystum, is one of Europe's earliest Iron Age Settlements, standing 480 feet above sea level.
This is possible since extraordinary plane waves hyperbolic dispersion allows the vacuum radiation to couple with medium plane waves whose longitudinal wavenumbers are sufficiently large to allow the settlement of standing waves within the nanometric slab thickness.
At one point we passed an old Russian mining settlement, its abandoned buildings standing forlorn against the snow.
Among the more famous are the remains of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, Europe's best-preserved Neolithic settlement, with the oldest standing buildings in the United Kingdom.
In May 2012, about 1,500 of Nepal's poorest watched as government workers bulldozed their settlement with riot police standing by to crack any dissenting heads.
The United States has allowed the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, breaking with long standing American practice and withholding its veto, in an apparent rebuke of Israeli policy.
But senior Democrats today derided Mr. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, for standing behind the settlement when the Republican-led Congress has resisted increasing the minimum wage.
In Edwards, the Ninth Circuit has held that the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA") conferred standing to a homeowner who sought to challenge the kickback relationship between the title insurer and title agency despite the fact that the homeowner suffered no independent injury, through, for example, overpayment.
